Throughout an aggressive cross-examination Tuesday, the lawyer questioned Rapp's account of how he first met Spacey in 1986.
A lawyer for Kevin Spacey sought Tuesday to poke holes within the story of one other actor who claims Spacey made a sexual advance on him when he was a youngster.
Throughout an aggressive cross-examination at a civil trial in Manhattan, protection lawyer Jennifer Keller zeroed in on inconsistencies between Anthony Rapp’s account of how he first met Spacey in 1986 and that of an older buddy who was there.
Rapp stated he was 14 when Spacey invited him and the buddy to a nightclub after assembly them backstage at a Broadway play starring Spacey. He testified they went residence with out incident instantly after the nightclub outing.
Nonetheless, the buddy — who was in his late teenagers on the time — has stated in a deposition that the pair really went to Spacey’s condo and described Spacey attempting to lure the buddy right into a sexual encounter.
Contemplating the buddy’s deposition, “You knew you had an issue along with your story, right?” Keller requested.
“I don’t dispute his story. I simply don’t bear in mind it,” Rapp stated.
In accordance with Rapp, it was days later earlier than he went to Spacey’s condo for the primary time for a celebration. He has testified that after the opposite visitors left, Spacey compelled himself on him by pinning him down on a mattress — an allegation Spacey denies.
The cross-examination got here in the course of the second week of a trial stemming from the accusation Rapp first made publicly in 2017 earlier than suing Spacey. It was amongst related claims that largely shut down Spacey’s profession with a number of allegations of inappropriate touching or sexual advances.
On the time, Spacey was starring in Netflix’s political thriller Home of Playing cards. He’s additionally recognized for his function within the 1999 movie American Magnificence, which received him an Academy Award.
As a youngster, the 50-year-old Rapp acted in movies together with Adventures in Babysitting. He was later a part of the unique Broadway forged of Hire, and is now a daily on Star Trek: Discovery on tv.
Beneath questioning by his personal lawyer earlier Tuesday, Rapp recounted how he confided in a classmate after his encounter with Spacey. He stated he advised the buddy that he watching TV in a bed room when Spacey “got here in drunk, picked me up as a groom does a bride, and he climbed on high of me attempting to get with me sexually and I managed to squirm away.”
He additionally recalled that when he was nonetheless in highschool, he as soon as went to see a film starring Spacey and realized how a lot he was traumatized. He stated he felt like he’d been “caught with a cattle prod. Like I jumped out of my seat. Adrenaline. Sweaty palms.”
In 1999, Rapp had an opportunity encounter with Spacey in a restroom on the Tony Awards, he testified.
“As I used to be washing my arms, Kevin Spacey walked by the door,” he stated. “I checked out him and he checked out me. That was startling. … I needed very a lot to get away.”
Rapp’s lawyer — responding to protection recommendations that Rapp was obsessive about Spacey — requested him, “Have you ever ever had a crush on Kevin Spacey?”
“No, I've not,” he responded.