ROME –
Two weeks after a New York jury sided with Kevin Spacey in a sexual abuse lawsuit, an Italian movie museum introduced Thursday that the actor would receive a lifetime achievement award and educate a grasp class there early subsequent yr.
Enzo Ghigo, president of the National Museum of Cinema in the northern metropolis of Turin, mentioned the category and the award honoring Spacey’s contribution to the expansion of cinema would happen on Jan. 16, 2023. The occasion additionally is ready to embrace a screening of a Spacey movie, although Ghigo did not say which.
“We are honored that such a prestigious visitor as Kevin Spacey selected Turin and our museum for this long-awaited return to an occasion with an viewers,” he mentioned.
Previous winners of the Stella della Mole Award embrace actors Isabella Rossellini and Monica Bellucci, and director Dario Argento.
On Oct. 21, a federal jury in a New York civil case discovered that Spacey, 63, didn’t sexually abuse Anthony Rapp when each have been comparatively unknown Broadway actors in 1986 and Rapp was 14 years outdated. The jurors deliberated a little bit greater than an hour earlier than deciding that Rapp, now 50, hadn’t confirmed his allegations.
Rapp’s .MeToo-era allegations, and people of others, derailed Spacey’s hovering profession. The two-time Academy Award successful actor misplaced his starring function on the Netflix collection “House of Cards” and noticed different alternatives dry up.
Rapp is an everyday on TV’s “Star Trek: Discovery” and was a part of the unique Broadway solid of “Rent.”
Spacey beforehand confronted costs in Massachusetts that he groped a person at a bar — allegations that have been later dropped by prosecutors. Three months in the past, he pleaded not responsible in London to costs he sexually assaulted three males between 2004 and 2015 when he was the creative director on the Old Vic theater in London.
A decide in Los Angeles this summer time accredited an arbitrator’s determination to order Spacey to pay $30.9 million to the makers of “House of Cards” for violating his contract by sexually harassing crew members.
Spacey filmed his most up-to-date film, director Franco Nero’s “The Man Who Drew God,” in Turin.
“Now, amongst all the cities of the world, he selected Turin for a grasp class. He could not give us a greater current than this,” Domenico De Gaetano, the director of the National Museum of Cinema, was quoted as saying in the information launch.
Gaeteno plans to interview Spacey about his profession on the January occasion.