Former ‘House of Cards’ actor Kevin Spacey finishes testimony at New York civil sex abuse trial – Baltimore Sun

NEW YORK — Kevin Spacey remained composed Tuesday throughout cross-examination at a civil trial, repeatedly rejecting ideas that he wasn’t telling the reality when he denied an actor’s claims that he made a sexual advance on him when he was 14 within the Nineteen Eighties.

His testimony for a number of hours on cross-examination by a lawyer for actor Anthony Rapp, 50, went easily sufficient that Spacey’s lawyer didn’t ask any questions after the examination was accomplished by early afternoon. Rapp testified earlier within the trial, now in its third week. He is looking for $40 million in damages.

Addressing Rapp’s lawyer as “sir,” Spacey didn’t appear rattled a day after he emotionally testified that he regretted following the recommendation of his handlers to be “friendly and cordial” in responding to Rapp’s claims in 2017 that Spacey picked him up and briefly laid on high of him on a mattress in his condominium in 1986 when Rapp was 14 and he was 26.

“In my heart, I did not believe this had happened,” Spacey mentioned of his response to the claims. He mentioned he was “terrified” and went alongside together with his handlers’ proposal of a public assertion saying he didn’t recall the encounter but when it occurred, “I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.”

“The whole thing was horrifying,” Spacey mentioned.

Rapp’s claims, and people of others, abruptly interrupted what had been a high-flying profession for the two-time Academy Award-winning actor, who misplaced his job on the Netflix sequence “House of Cards,” which was filmed in Baltimore, and noticed different alternatives dry up. Rapp is a daily on TV’s “Star Trek: Discovery” and was half of the unique Broadway solid of “Rent.”

Spacey, 63, admitted entertaining Rapp and Rapp’s buddy, John Barrowman, one night in 1986 after they noticed Spacey carry out in “Long Day’s Journey into Night.” But he mentioned if he had a romantic curiosity, it was Barrowman, not Rapp, who was performing at the time in “Precious Sons” on Broadway.

Spacey recalled dancing with the then-19-year-old Barrowman at the Limelight dance membership and mentioned he invited Barrowman and Rapp to his condominium afterward to see his canine.

Once there, Barrowman and Spacey “playfully had a moment together” on his mattress in a go to to the condominium that lasted a few half-hour, the actor mentioned. Barrowman testified in a deposition partially performed in courtroom Monday that Rapp was within the restroom when Barrowman and Spacey briefly flirted on the mattress.

“It was a flirtatious and playful moment between two people who were attracted to each other,” Spacey mentioned. “I was captivated by John Barrowman.”

On Monday, Spacey testified that he was certain he was by no means alone with Rapp, and that Rapp’s declare that Spacey made a move at him after a celebration at his condominium was not true.

“I knew I wouldn’t have any sexual interest in Anthony Rapp or any child. That I knew,” Spacey mentioned.