Kevin Spacey to make movie comeback with cameo in paedophilia drama

Veteran actor Kevin Spacey is reportedly set to make his big screen comeback in the indie film L’uomo che disegnò Dio (The Man who drew God).

The 61-year-old actor’s career collapsed three years ago after a string of sexual misconduct allegations were made against him, but Spacey is now planning to return to acting by playing a detective who investigates a wrongly-accused paedophile (played by in ‘L’uomo che disegnò Dio’.

Kevin Spacey and sexual assault lawsuit

This all comes a few weeks after a judge declared that an assault lawsuit against Kevin Spacey would not be allowed to proceed if the unnamed man who filed it, didn’t agree to drop his anonymity.

Spacey was removed from his starring role in Netflix’s House of Cards in November 2017 as sexual assault and misconduct allegations against him mounted. 

Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero

The movie will also star Vanessa Redgrave and is set to be directed by her husband, Italian filmmaker Franco Nero (Django), who will play a blind artist wrongly accused of sexual abuse, according to The Telegraph.

Comparison to workers laid off during COVID-19

Meanwhile, last year, Kevin – who has denied the accusations against him – compared his situation to that of workers laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaking on the Bits & Pretzels podcast, said: ‘I don’t think it will come as a surprise for anyone to say that my world completely changed in the fall of 2017.

“My job, many of my relationships, my standing in my own industry were all gone in just a matter of hours.

“I don’t often like to tell people that I can relate to their situation because I think it undermines the experience that they may be having which is their own unique and very personal experience.

World suddenly stopped

“But in this instance I feel as though I can relate to what it feels like to have your world suddenly stop.

“And so while we may have found ourselves in similar situations, albeit for very different reasons and circumstances, I still believe that some of the emotional struggles are very much the same.

“And so I do have empathy for what it feels like to suddenly be told that you can’t go back to work or that you might lose your job and that it’s a situation that you have absolutely no control over.”

L’uomo Che Disegnò Dio will be Spacey’s first movie since 2018 when he appeared in Billionaire Boys Club.