Kevin Spacy back in action

 Indiewire reports that Kevin Spacey has re-emerged in a "bizarre" poetry reading in Rome:

Kevin Spacey has once again emerged under puzzling circumstances. The embattled former “House of Cards” star and Oscar winner, who fell from grace in 2017 after sexual assault allegations against the “American Beauty” actor surfaced, made a strange public appearance in Rome over the weekend. Spacey surprised museum-goers when he set up shop at the Palazzo Massimo to perform a public poetry reading. 

The poem, “The Boxer” by Gabriele Tinti, centers on a dejected fighter who bemoans his cruel fate while bleeding out by the ringside. “The more you’re wounded, the greater you are. And the more empty you are,” recounts Spacey, clad in a burnt-sienna suit, to a nonplussed crowd. This is no doubt yet another autobiographical flourish from the disgraced 60-year-old actor, who resurfaced last October in an unsettling video posing as axed “House of Cards” character Frank Underwood, where he used Underwood’s Shakespearean oratory to denounce the sexual assault claims that began with “Star Trek: Discovery” actor Anthony Rapp. (TMZ has the video of his latest public appearance here.

In the McCarthy era, some low budget producers took advantage of blacklisted talent. I just wrote about the movie Robot Monster, a terribly cheap horror movie with blacklisted actor Selena Royle and music by greylisted composer Elmer Bernstein.

Sadly, I don't think you're going to see Kevin Spacey or Louie CK doing low budget horror movies now. Although, now that I think about it, Andy Dick was down to nothing but ultra-cheap movies, but it looks like even they'll stop hiring him.

The #metoo movement may not be a boon to low budget cinema after all. Of course, I'm probably the only one who ever suggested it would be.