Kevin Spacey says he feels welcomed after Hollywood trials

Actor Kevin Spacey says he feels "much more welcomed" in Hollywood and that his career is moving in a positive direction, nine years after a wave of sexual misconduct allegations upended his professional life. The 66-year-old two-time Oscar winner made the comments during an interview on Bill Maher's "Club Random" podcast released on Monday, June 29, 2026.

Spacey's career stalled in 2017 after actor Anthony Rapp accused him of making an unwanted sexual advance in 1986, when Rapp was 14. That allegation prompted more than a dozen other men to come forward with accusations of sexual misconduct, all of which Spacey has consistently denied or characterized as consensual. The actor was subsequently fired from the Netflix series "House of Cards" and replaced in the film "All the Money in the World."

During the conversation, Maher told Spacey that while he was not deeply versed in every detail of the allegations, the sheer number of accusers led him to believe "there's too much smoke to be no fire." Spacey responded that he never claimed there was no fire. "It just wasn't a raging forest fire," he said. "It was a small kitchen fire that could have been put out with an extinguisher." He...