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Kevin Spacey's Fall and the House of Cards Fallout
from Stewed Reunion (with Mike Recine) · #74
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
2 minThey discuss Kevin Spacey's sexual misconduct allegations, his father's alleged Nazi sympathies, and how House of Cards is trying to continue without him, questioning whether the show can work with just Robin Wright.
- 40:31Usual Suspects production was shut down for a while because of Spacey's sexual misconduct.
- 40:45Tim argues that the 80s and 90s in Hollywood were essentially defined by sexual predation that people ignored.
- 41:08Kevin Spacey probably feels lucky he came up during an era when these things weren't being exposed.
- 41:35Tim recounts a bit Patton Oswalt does about his grandfather being a Nazi who just drove the truck.
- 41:50The joke: 'He didn't do anything. He just drove the truck'—implying complicity in atrocities without direct action.
- 42:11Kevin Spacey's father was a bad person, and that background unfortunately shaped things.
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