Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey shared a third annual Christmas Eve video Thursday on Thursday, leaving many wondering if he knew how to read the room.
The almost 2½ minute YouTube video he also posted His Twitter feed featured Spacey, 61, directly addressing the camera while walking through an unfamiliar park.
“What would Christmas Eve be without a message from me?” he said, starting the video with the southern accent of his former ‘House of Cards’ character, Frank Underwood, as he did in bizarre holiday videos in 2019 and 2018.
“Listen, a lot of people have reached out to me in the past year and shared their own struggles. And my ability to be there for them has really only been possible through my own difficulties, ”he said, referring to previous allegations of sexual assault against the Oscar-winning actor. Spacey is currently facing a lawsuit from “Star Trek: Discovery” actor Anthony Rapp, 49, and another man, identified as CD, who accused him of making sexual advances to them in separate incidents when they were both underage. Rapp said he was 14 when his incident happened.
Spacey – who said in May that he has ’empathy’ for people who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic – further complained that he was unable to help people who may be struggling with suicidal thoughts during a tumultuous 2020.
“While it has been a privilege to provide support, I have to say it was also beyond my capabilities and greater than I am,” said the actor with a grim face. Because, heartbreakingly, so many have talked about the things that have become so bad to them that they considered committing suicide. And that’s enough for me to want to take a completely different approach this year, to acknowledge their pain.
“To anyone who is struggling – or thinking about it – please, please don’t take that step,” he continued. “When you are standing in a place where you can no longer stand. When you suffer, when you need help. If you feel guilty or ashamed. When you struggle with your identity. If your back is against the wall. Or if you feel that there is no path for you, whatever your situation, I promise there is a path. “
Spacey then gallantly added, “You’re not alone,” using the video to promote suicide and drug abuse hotlines. “So I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, a great 2021, and say to all those who might be suffering, it’s getting better. It gets better, ”he continued, seemingly the name of an LGBTQ support group founded by activist and journalist Dan Savage and his husband, Terry Miller.
While he had some supporters – ‘Keep your chin up, brother! You’re missed,” offered one – much of the Twitter feedback was negative.
“Which of your teenage sex slaves told you this was a good idea?” one commenter claimed, while asked another, “Is this your way of winning people over?” Someone else suggested, “Maybe you should sit this one out every day. #YouveDoneEnoughDamage I mean ‘. ”A poster Spacey confronted “No one literally asks you to do this,” while another was more direct, to write, “PLEASE F-KING STOP.”
In 2019 Spacey – whose films include 2007’s ‘Fred Claus’, 1999’s ‘American Beauty’ and 1995’s ‘The Usual Suspects’ also resurfaced in Italy to give a poetry read about a boxer. “The more you get hurt, the bigger you are and the more empty you are,” Spacey told Gabriele Tinti from a poem.