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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s third party bid for the White House landed an unusual endorsement on Monday: Kevin Spacey.
The Academy Award-winning actor announced his support on X, formerly Twitter in response to a new video from Kennedy Jr.’s campaign that was narrated by Woody Harrelson, another celebrity supporter.
Spacey described Kennedy Jr. as a “loyal friend.”
“There’s a lot I can learn from this man. When the world turned its back on me, Bobby leaned in,” he wrote. “He’s a formidable fighter for justice and a loyal friend that’s not afraid to stand up for what he believes.”
The video from Kennedy Jr.’s campaign begins with him reading various words from critics, saying he’s “divorced from reality” and a conspiracy theorist, printed in the media about his presidential run.
Spacey’s endorsement of Kennedy Jr. comes as the actor is facing a new wave of misconduct allegations. Spacey Unmasked, a Channel 4 documentary, is set to air on May 6 and 7 in the U.K., and it will stream on the Max streaming app in the U.S. The documentary contains multiple new accusers with allegations that cover decades.
The actor denied the allegations of sexual harassment in an interview with UK presenter Dan Wootton. In the lengthy chat, Spacey responded to each allegation as they were described in an email to Channel 4. Spacey claimed the network did not give him adequate time to respond, and he questioned the timing of the documentary’s release as it comes after multiple wins in court and the actor starting to appear in movies for the first time in years.
In 2017, Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct amid a flurry of other allegations against famous famous as part of the #MeToo movement. Among the accusations was actor Anthony Rapp, who accused Spacey of sexual assault when he was a minor. Rapp ultimately lost a sexual battery lawsuit in New York in 2022. Spacey was also found not guilty on multiple sexual assault charges in the U.K. in 2023.
The allegations of misconduct led to Spacey being booted from Netflix’s House of Cards, edited out of Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World, and his Gore Vidal biopic for Netflix was indefinitely shelved. Spacey’s career has seen a slight upturn as he’s appeared in films again, albeit low budget efforts like 2023’s Control and this year’s Peter Five Eight. Among his other efforts was a recent sit-down with Tucker Carlson where the actor unofficially reprised his House of Cards character for the bizarre interview.
In the Wootton interview, Spacey described himself as “promiscuous” and said he’d privately apologized for some of his past behavior, but denied allegations of sexual harassment and assault.
“I take full responsibility for my past behavior and my actions,” the actor said. “But I cannot and will not take responsibility or apologize to anyone who’s made up stuff about me or exaggerated stories about me,” he said.
Spacey called it a mistake to come out as homosexual in his response to Rapp’s original accusation. The new allegations include men claiming Spacey used his celebrity status and to pressure them, but Spacey denied this and said he’s never promised career favors to anyone in exchange for physical favors.
“I’ve clearly hooked up with some men, who thought they might get ahead in their careers by having a relationship with me,” he said. “But there was no conversation with me, it was all part of their plan, a plan that was always destined to fail, because I wasn’t in on the deal.”
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