Funny you would say that...
Posted on 10/30/2017 2:25:15 PM PDT by Enlightened1
As allegations of unwanted sexual advances in 1986 by Kevin Spacey against then-14-year-old Anthony Rapp have emerged, Netflix today decided to pull the plug on the Spacey-starring House of Cards after the upcoming sixth season next year.
Coming just more than 12 hours after Star Trek Discovery star Rapp first made public his allegations of what happened at a party at Spacey’s New York City apartment back in the mid-1980s, the streaming service made the official decision today, sources tell us. While Netflix and producers Media Rights Capital were leaning towards ending the show a while ago, key cast and creatives were only alerted this morning in a series of calls.
“Media Rights Capital and Netflix are deeply troubled by last night’s news concerning Kevin Spacey,” the companies said in a joint statement today. “In response to last night’s revelations, executives from both of our companies arrived in Baltimore this afternoon to meet with our cast and crew to ensure that they continue to feel safe and supported. As previously scheduled, Kevin Spacey is not working on set at this time.”
We have also heard that Netflix’s Spacey-starring film Gore about the acerbic author Gore Vidal may be on the chopping block now too. The Reed Hastings-run streaming service has stayed officially silent on the sexual advance claims. No word yet if the NYPD is looking into the Rapp claims that allegedly occurred in its jurisdiction.
Late Sunday, Rapp claimed that then-26-year-old Spacey drunkenly put the teen on a bed to “seduce” him. “I was aware that he was trying to get with me sexually,” Rapp said last night of the 1986 incident when Spacey and he were both on Broadway...
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And yet, if you read other blogs, it is alleged that it was an “open secret” on the House of Cards set that he came on to the younger male actors and crew and pressured them for sex. The House of Cards execs knew about his behavior for years. They just didn’t do anything about it until the accusations started flying.
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Netflix pulls the butt plug.
They’d be above the age of consent in Dubai
I’d had it with the show anyway. Won’t watch anymore of it.
Hollywood hoisted by his own petard.
Die, Hollywood, die!
>>Netflix pulls the butt plug.
LOL! Good one. I’m stealing that!
Not a shocker - you could tell how much Spacey enjoyed filming the 3-way scene with his personal security man and Claire, not to mention the American Beauty scene with the neighbor.
I watched the first two seasons, and they were great (although not as fun as the original BBC series it copied). But after the homo threesome with Underwood, wife and driver, it really went off the rails and also got utterly predictable. I did not get through S03.
Interesting, never saw the show but Obama says Spacey learned it from him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cuMcPN6eUg
Yep, we’ve got two seasons “queued up” ... but after watching 2 episodes, we lost interest. It just was too complicated and not much fun anymore. Oh well...
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>> “now it was her turn” <<
Oh, its her turn all right; just not exactly how she had envisioned it.
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They haven’t been stepping forward to protect him and I believe it is because they have long been enraged that he remained in the closet. Once his “advances” became public THEN he “came out” so they feel it’s self serving of him and that it just makes them look bad. Sort of a “where were you when we needed you” in terms of PR.
I’m about 3/4 through Season 5 and it has really gone downhill. Maybe it’s because real-life has gotten SO much more interesting and better than what the writers came up with for HoC.
The corrupt, evil, scheming people on the show have gotten really stale.
It’s no wonder that Stacey did such a good job playing the secret homo in the show — he didn’t have to act one bit!
There’s more that they know.
Based on Season 5 being such a stinker, I don’t think I’ll watch Season 6.
Funny you would say that...
The good news about Netflix: “Longmire” is supposed to be released in about three weeks.
So all of the actors who did NOT molest anyone get punished too?
That makes no sense.
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