Kevin Spacey Tells Guy Pearce to ‘Grow Up,’ Denies Claim He ‘Targeted’ Actor – Rolling Stone
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Jon Blistein
Kevin Spacey told Guy Pearce to “grow up” after Pearce claimed his former co-star “targeted” him when they worked together on L.A. Confidential.
Pearce has not leveled any specific allegations against Spacey, though in a 2018 interview, he called the actor a “handsy guy.” More recently, on the Awards Chatter podcast, Pearce said, “Even though I probably was a victim to a degree, I was certainly not a victim by any means to the extent that other people have been to sexual predators… I was young and susceptible, and he targeted me, no question.”
In a video posted on X Tuesday, Feb. 18, Spacey responded, saying, “We worked together a long time ago. If I did something then that upset you, you could’ve reached out to me, we could’ve had that conversation.”
Spacey — who’s faced numerous claims of sexual misconduct, all of which he’s either denied or been cleared of in court — chastised Pearce for speaking on his experience to the press. He then complained that the press was “now coming after me because they’d like to know what my response is.” Spacey said, “You really want to know what my response is? Grow up.”
Spacey went on to claim that after shooting L.A. Confidential Pearce traveled to Savannah, Georgia while he was filming Midnight in the Valley of Evil “just to spend time with me.” He questioned why Pearce did not mention that, saying, “Or does that not fit into the victim narrative you have going?” Spacey later alleged, “Maybe there was another reason, I don’t know. But that doesn’t make any sense that you would’ve just been leading me on, right?”
(Pearce did say on Awards Chatter that he “had a couple of confrontations with Kevin post-that that got ugly,” though did not specify what happened, or when.)
Spacey ended by saying, “But here you are now on a mission, some 28 years later, after I’ve been through hell and back to do what? Just in time to stop the bad guy. Is that what’s going on here? What took you so long? Did your horse run out of gas? I mean, you want to have a conversation, I’m happy to do so anytime, any place. We can even do it here live on X if you’d like, I’ve got nothing to hide. But Guy, you need to grow up. You are not a victim.”
Pearce said it wasn’t until “things came to light in 2017” that he started to comprehend the way Spacey had treated him on L.A. Confidential. At the time, he said, he would “brush it off and go, ‘Ah, that’s nothing,’” adding that he was “scared of Kevin because he’s quite an aggressive man.”
When the other allegations against Spacey first emerged, Pearce said he “broke down and sobbed, and I couldn’t stop.” He continued, “I think it really sort of dawned on me the impact that had occurred and how I sort of brushed it off and how I had sort of either shelved it or blocked it out or whatever. That was a really incredible wake up call, I suppose.”We want to hear it. Send us a tip using our anonymous form.Rolling Stone is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2025 Rolling Stone, LLC. All rights reserved.
