Netflix cut ties with Kevin Spacey as they removed him from the cover photo of House of Cards (Details, pics)
Netflix has removed Kevin Spacey from the cover photo of House of Cards on the heels of news that the company was cutting all ties to the actor.
The previous poster for the long-running political drama featured Spacey's character of Frank Underwood and Robin Wright's Claire Underwood. The current cover photo features a still of just Wright, wearing a black coat and looking into the distance.In addition, the overview section of the show's page features a still of Claire Underwood sitting in the Oval Office chair. The company announced Friday night that it wouldn't make House of Cards as long as Spacey was involved, and that it was dropping a biopic of writer Gore Vidal that he had been set to star in amid more claims of inappropriate behavior.
On Friday night, BuzzFeed News spoke to three more men who accused Spacey of inappropriate conduct - including one who said the actor invited him to watch gay porn and gave him cocktails when he was 16.'Netflix will not be involved with any further production of House of Cards that includes Kevin Spacey,' the company said in a statement.
'We will continue to work with [Media Rights Capital, the production house behind the show] during this hiatus time to evaluate our path forward as it relates to the show.'
'We have also decided we will not be moving forward with the release of the film Gore, which was in post-production, starring and produced by Kevin Spacey.'
The statement is vague about the fate of House of Cards, but Page Six reported that production would continue without Spacey's involvement. It is unclear whether that is speculation; the claim isn't attributed to any source.
The show began with production house Media Rights Capital (MRC), but Spacey has an executive producer credit on the show, and his own company - Trigger Street Productions - has been involved in the show over the first five seasons. It's not clear whether the first five seasons of the show will remain on Netflix. Spacey's woes came after Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp claimed that Spacey had come onto him when he was just 14 years old, after a party at Spacey's, when they were the only ones in the apartment.
He said the actor had drunkenly picked him up 'like a bride,' and then lay down on top of him. Spacey said the story 'horrified' him and said he didn't recall the encounter, but said he apologized 'if I did behave then as he describes.
'Since then, a claim has emerged that Spacey made a 'gesture and remark' on the set of the first season in 2012 that resulted in him undergoing a 'training process'.
And on Friday another three claims were fired at the Oscar-winner - one of them again involving a teenager, another one claiming that he grabbed a man's penis and chased him around a club, and the third saying he got an assistant to request sex on set. Spacey's lawyer did not respond to BuzzFeed's request for comment on the new claims. Justin Dawes told Buzzfeed that he was working as a 16-year-old volunteer theater usher in 1988 when he met Spacey, then 29, after a play he was appearing in.
The actor invited him and a male friend over to watch Roman Polanski's Chinatown at an apartment he was renting for the duration of the performance. This was some 11 years after Polanski himself was infamously charged with getting a 13-year-old girl drunk and raping her. Dawes said that he and his friend arrived at Spacey's home to find no-one else there, and the TV playing gay pornography. Spacey mixed them cocktails, he said.
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