Voice from the cabal Daily Beast apoplectic takedown of Spacey
Kevin Spacey’s Grotesque ‘Frank Underwood’ Video Shows How Little He Has Learned
Kevin Spacey's bizarre video, blurring the lines between his ‘House of Cards’ character and the real-life accusations of sexual assault against him, is as creepy as it is defiant.
…the video is not just a fail, it is also a menacing, self-aggrandizing, beyond tone-deaf, egomaniacal fail, which shows exactly how little Spacey has cared to learn about himself, or the gravity of what he has been accused of, and the devastating effects of his alleged actions as so eloquently expressed by his accusers, like Anthony Rapp, who claimed Spacey had assaulted him when he was 14.
Any bit of oxygen in a room which Spacey is inhabiting must be his to own, you sense. He has now made himself the victim of events, just like so many accused men do, particularly ones likely surrounded by sycophantic flunkies and friends. It’s amazing how much blind self-affirmation and craven self-denial money can buy you.
Netflix declined to comment on the video (over 1.6 million views and counting at the time of writing), as well it might, because like us its executives likely watched this unpolished turd of self-glorification with mouths agape in shock, just hoping—as we all are—that it doesn’t somehow manifest in our Christmas nightmares.
“I know what you want,” Spacey/Underwood says to us with a predatory snarl. “Sure, they have tried to separate us but what we have is too strong, it’s too powerful… We share everything… the deepest, darkest secrets. I showed you exactly what people are capable of. I shocked you with my honesty, but mostly I challenged you and made you think. And you trusted me, even though you knew you shouldn’t. So, we’re not done, no matter what anyone says. And besides, I know what you want. You want me back.”
A few things (quite besides who the hell does Kevin Spacey believe himself to be?): Frank Underwood, his insinuating gaze to the camera, made the House of Cards fan a fourth-wall-breaking accomplice, and jolly good fun it was too (although Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart in the BBC original series of 1990, created by Michael Dobbs, was arguably more arch and slithery).
But, and this seems like news to Spacey, his House of Cards fans have been forced to move on, and they did so without resorting to rioting on the streets. Spacey’s ego cannot register that, and simply retreading his character’s relationship with the viewer is embarrassing grandstanding.
On another level, if this is Spacey talking, then he’s either lying about his relationship to his fans, or deluded. He was notoriously private, and kept the audience well away from his personal life. He only came out as gay in the most hideously self-serving way, after sexual-assault allegations were made against him.
And no, sorry, there has been no great public desire to have him “back.”
Spacey/Underwood goes on: “Of course, some believed everything and have just been waiting with bated breath to hear me confess it all. They’re just dying to have me declare that everything said is true, and that I got what I deserved… Only you and I both know, it’s never that simple: not in politics and not in life. You wouldn’t believe the worst without evidence… You wouldn’t rush to judgments without facts, would you? Did you? No, not you. You’re smarter than that.”
If this is meant to be Underwood, then it’s utter nonsense, because his whole raison d’être is to be a triple-talking snake. We saw what he said and did very clearly.
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