{"id":249096,"date":"2026-06-29T15:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/kevin-spacey-says-hes-less-in-jail-than-before-as-he-reflects-on-hollywood-comeback\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:21:48","slug":"kevin-spacey-says-hes-less-in-jail-than-before-as-he-reflects-on-hollywood-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/kevin-spacey-says-hes-less-in-jail-than-before-as-he-reflects-on-hollywood-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Spacey Says He&#8217;s &#8216;Less in Jail&#8217; Than Before as He Reflects on Hollywood Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2237974\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/kevin-spacey\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Kevin Spacey<\/strong><\/a> is speaking out about the status of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 66-year-old <em>American Beauty<\/em> actor, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/03\/19\/kevin-spacey-settles-sexual-assault-lawsuit-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has faced dozens of sexual misconduct allegations<\/a> over the years, made an appearance on <strong>Bill Maher<\/strong>\u2018s <em>Club Random<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the appearance, he spoke about his current standing in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI feel much more welcomed, and I think that things are moving in the direction that we hoped they were moving in,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are certain cases where part of something is true, but it\u2019s been rethought, it\u2019s been redesigned, or it\u2019s been entirely made up, certainly in the case of <strong>Anthony Rapp<\/strong>, which is a case that we won in federal court in New York,\u201d he shared, referring to the actor\u2019s 2017 allegation that <strong>Kevin <\/strong>assaulted him in his New York apartment while he was a teenager, explaining how the alleged story fell apart in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A New York jury ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2022\/10\/20\/anthony-rapps-civil-sexual-misconduct-trial-kevin-spacey-verdict-is-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found <strong>Kevin<\/strong> not guilty on all counts.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kevin Spacey | Club Random with Bill Maher\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ot0C5RA6tDk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m not going to lie to you, I go by numbers with scandals\u2026if it\u2019s like one person, I\u2019m always like, I don\u2019t know if I wasn\u2019t in the room\u2026when it gets to like, c\u2019mon man. There\u2019s too much smoke to be no fire,\u201d <strong>Bill <\/strong>said of the many allegations over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI never said there was no fire. It just wasn\u2019t a raging forest fire. It was a small kitchen fire that could have been put out with an extinguisher,\u201d <strong>Kevin<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019re still in show business jail,\u201d <strong>Bill<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI feel less in jail than I did. When people look at things\u2026when people actually start to hear the facts, understand what we won in courts, I think people now look at this and think, maybe nine years has been enough\u2026if I had been a sports figure I would have been benched for seven games. That\u2019s what happens\u2026if you\u2019re hitting home runs, they want you on the field,\u201d <strong>Kevin <\/strong>said of his punishment in the public eye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kevin Spacey<\/strong> recently returned to Cannes Film Festival, one year after he attended the amfAR Cannes Gala to received a Lifetime Achievement Award. At the Cannes gala last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/20\/kevin-spacey-returns-to-cannes-with-model-via-lemann-on-his-arm-one-year-after-fiery-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he gave a fiery speech<\/a> about blacklisting in Hollywood and how he hopes history doesn\u2019t repeat itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/anthony-rapp\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Rapp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/bill-maher\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bill maher<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/kevin-spacey\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Spacey<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/29\/kevin-spacey-says-hes-less-in-jail-than-before-as-he-reflects-on-hollywood-comeback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Getty Kevin Spacey is speaking out about the status of his career. The 66-year-old American Beauty actor, who has faced dozens of sexual misconduct allegations over the years, made an appearance on Bill Maher\u2018s Club Random podcast. During the appearance, he spoke about his current standing in Hollywood. \u201cI feel much more welcomed, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-249096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}