Reeling in the wake of dozens of sexual harassment, it’s a tough time for Kevin Spacey to release a rotten movie. But with just thirteen percent positive critical reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, this movie, seemingly Spacey’s last, has landed with a splat.
“We don’t condone sexual harassment and we fully support victims of it,” Vertical Entertainment stated to USA TODAY. (Just the type of exciting hype filmmakers crave for their premiere!)
Ditched by video-on-demand, iTunes, and Amazon, (with Netfilx previously having terminated his projects) “Billionaire Boys Club” opened in just a handful of theaters. Apparently there’s no market for a Kevin Spacey film with ‘Boys’ in the title as he ogles them on screen.
In contrast, director Ridley Scott’s bold decision to re-shoot all of Spacey’s scenes just seven weeks before releasing “All the Money in the World” paid off: the recast earned accolades with Christoper Plummer earning an Oscar nomination.
It’s been just ten months since Anthony Rapp became the first of many to accuse the now-disgraced star. Spacey’s response to Rapp’s allegation reflected a complete obliviousness both to the gravity of the accusations and the instant demise of his career:
It’s even more trite and tone deaf reading it now: Seemingly using his star power to tout the accuser’s abilities, he’s clueless as to how toxic he’d instantly become. Despite having apparently forgotten the incident, his psudo-acknowledgment remains peppered with excuses. His big hope hope, however, was that announcing his openly gay status would distract or mitigate but alas, both the gay and filmmaking communities offered no pass to sexual harassment of a fourteen-year-old.
And now less than a year later, audiences have driven the final nail in the coffin of Spacey’s film career.
