Every time I interview someone describing a traumatic experience with a public figure, this rings in my ears – the inescapable hall of mirrors. And no more so than while working with the men who accused Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct, for articles in this newspaper and while producing the Channel 4 documentary series Spacey Unmasked last year.
Spacey was acquitted of all charges in a criminal trial in London in 2023; a civil case in the US the year before also found in his favour. The 10 men in the film, however, were not part of the criminal trial, and two civil cases against him in this country are ongoing. He has admitted to being “too handsy” but otherwise denies the claims.
It does not matter that this wasn’t an official Cannes event but a Cannes-adjacent “Award for Excellence in Film and Television” presented by the Better World Fund. (Is the world better for celebrating Kevin Spacey in 2025?) What matters is the message it screams: that talent is everything and little people should shut up.
Kevin Spacey, right, receives the Excellence in Film and Television award from Better World Fund president Manuel Collas de La Roche in Cannes, southern France (Photo: Invision)The Better World Fund’s tagline is “cinema and art at the service of humanity”. If they wish to improve the world, how about setting up programmes for anyone working in cinema or television who wishes to speak out about sexual harassment? Most are young, in insecure jobs, with no power, and no public platform. Support from glitzy organisations to implement real safeguarding structures might just help.
This is not the case. She added that nobody said he raped them so “he should be allowed to come back”. Is rape the bar now? Stephen Fry called Spacey “clumsy” as if he often trips over the doormat. He reduced the accounts of the 10 men in the series to “rhetoric”.
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I think instead of those 10 men who somehow felt able to raise their voice. Sharon Stone, you see, said something else highly questionable: that the reason Spacey wasn’t welcomed back into the industry was “because in his case it was man-on-man”. The implication being that somehow our world is more disgusted by sexual impropriety against men than women. That men are more usually believed or taken more seriously.
The treatment of women and girls who report sexual violence is abhorrent in every country in the world. But let’s not pretend it’s better for men.
I want victims of all genders to be heard and supported. Let us never forget, for example, the recent suicide of Virginia Giuffre, the central voice against Jeffrey Epstein. Hers isn’t only a tragedy but a shameful indictment of a world that sides with the powerful. I want every organisation to consider the impact they have on survivors. And I want every journalist to remember that their job is to scrutinise how power works, examine who has it, and expose who abuses it.
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