#432 – Kevin Spacey: Power, Controversy, Betrayal, Truth & Love in Film and Life
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Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 147 minutes
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(10:14) - Seven
(13:54) - David Fincher
(21:46) - Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman
(27:15) - Acting
(35:40) - Improve
(44:24) - Al Pacino
(48:07) - Jack Lemmon
(57:25) - American Beauty
(1:17:34) - Mortality
(1:20:22) - Allegations
(1:38:19) - House of Cards
(1:56:55) - Jack Nicholson
(1:59:57) - Mike Nichols
(2:05:30) - Christopher Walken
(2:12:38) - Father
(2:21:30) - Future
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Following is a conversation with Kevin Spacey, a two-time Oscar winning actor who has |
| 0:05.1 | starred in Seven The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, and House of Cards. |
| 0:11.3 | He is one of the greatest actors ever, creating haunting performances of |
| 0:15.8 | characters who often embody the dark side of human nature. Seven years |
| 0:21.1 | ago he was cut from House of Cards and cancelled by Hollywood in the world, when |
| 0:25.9 | Anthony Rapp made an allegation that Kevin Spacey sexually abused him in 1986. Anthony Rapp then filed a civil lawsuit seeking $40 million. In this trial and all civil |
| 0:41.7 | and criminal trials that followed. |
| 0:44.0 | Kevin was acquitted. |
| 0:46.2 | He has never been found guilty nor liable in the court of law. |
| 0:52.2 | In this conversation, Kevin makes clear what he did and what he didn't do. |
| 0:57.0 | I also encourage you to listen to Kevin's Dan Wooten and Allison Pearson interviews for additional details and responses to the allegations. |
| 1:08.1 | As an aside, let me say that one of the principles I operate under for this podcast and in life is that I will talk with everyone with empathy and with backbone for each guest I hope to explore their life's work, life's story, and what and how they think. |
| 1:29.0 | And do so honestly and fully. |
| 1:31.0 | The good, the bad, and the ugly, the brilliance and the flaws. |
| 1:36.8 | I won't whitewash their sins, but I won't reduce them to a worse possible caricature of their sins either. |
| 1:45.1 | The latter is what the mass hysteria of internet mob's too often does, often rushing to a |
| 1:50.1 | final judgment before the facts are in. I will try to do better than that, to respect due process, |
| 1:57.5 | in service of the truth. And I hope to have the courage to always think independently and to speak honestly from the heart |
| 2:06.4 | Even when the eyes of the outrage mob are on me |
| 2:10.7 | Again, my goal is to understand human beings, at their best and at their worst. |
| 2:16.9 | And the hope is such understanding leads to more compassion and wisdom in the world. I will make mistakes and when I do I will work hard to improve. |
| 2:29.0 | I love you all. |
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