Kevin Spacey comes out as gay after being accused of child molestation

[Qwerty]

They should kill him off and bring in a body double to fool the public. Get Kevin Kline to play him

[Za Waldo]

They should kill him off and bring in a body double to fool the public. Get Kevin Kline to play him

They'll probably just pick up production sometimes later to finish out this last season. Given how nothing is actually for sure right now it seems a bit ridiculous Netflix is trying to make themselves look good this way.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Rightfully so. In his attempt to deflect criticism he's basically offering himself up as a poster boy for the type of people who conflate gay men with sexually predatory behavior.

It's a really ####ed thing for him to do.

Pretty much. Spacey dug up just about the worst sort of stereotype regarding gay men and ran with it. Despicable. No wonder Netflix quickly slammed the brakes on production of the final season.

[Iron_Legion87]

Doubtful. Bryan Singer had a great career whitewashing X-Men movies despite allegations against him.

Singer also had accusations about doing stuff with under aged boys when Days of Future Past came out but I haven't heard much else about it since. Also, there was reports that Singer and Halle Berry had issues during the filming of X2 or something.

[Jokerz79]

The character Frank Underwood is based off was eventually killed off just do the same and go forward with Claire in the final season.

[ZuLuLu]

The character Frank Underwood is based off was eventually killed off just do the same and go forward with Claire in the final season.

The problem is he is Spacey is the producer so even if he is killed of he is attached to the project, and it would probably cost Netflix a lot of money to get him to give up his producing rights.

[AndrewCrossett]

Next up: Bret Ratner.

I have a feeling these accusations are going to start coming so fast and furious now that people will just get numb to it. You can only be outraged so much before you decide this is the business of the people involved, and get on with your own life.

Takeaway: There are a LOT of scumbags in the world. Too many for me to post angrily about.

It will be difficult to enjoy anything if every creative work with one or more scumbags attached to it is boycotted.

[Frontier]

Next up: Bret Ratner.

I have a feeling these accusations are going to start coming so fast and furious now that people will just get numb to it. You can only be outraged so much before you decide this is the business of the people involved, and get on with your own life.

Takeaway: There are a LOT of scumbags in the world. Too many for me to post angrily about.

It will be difficult to enjoy anything if every creative work with one or more scumbags attached to it is boycotted.

Or at least hope all this inspires at least some change in the industry so that this becomes less common or accepted to where these people could have gotten away with all this vile stuff for as long as they have.

I know it's a systemic problem in every business, and has been for a long time, but at some point things just need to start changing.

[motherofpearl1]

Whats this about Ratner?

[Frontier]

Whats this about Ratner?

Several women have just accused him of sexual harassment, including Olivia Munn.

[bobellis75]

Whats this about Ratner?

Not surprised....I've heard jokes and comments in the past about his reputation and, frankly, he seems like a Grade A D-bag.

[bobellis75]

Several women have just accused him of sexual harassment, including Olivia Munn.

The stuff about natasha henstridge is especially terrible.

[Frontier]

The stuff about natasha henstridge is especially terrible.

These scandals just get increasingly more and more disgusting.

[DrNewGod]

...Given how nothing is actually for sure right now it seems a bit ridiculous Netflix is trying to make themselves look good this way.

There may be multiple good reasons for Netflix to do this that have nothing to do with actually looking good. A few that instantly spring to mind:

• They're almost certainly trying to avoid a sustained, angry social media assault spawning a series of hashtags that eternally ties them to pedophilia and anti-LGBTQ positions.
• This is the kind of noise that pops a publicly traded company right in the share-price, and they'd like to avoid that.
• They're probably hoping to minimize the number of times reporters use the phrase, "star of the Netflix series..." in connection with this story.
• They're likely negotiating for a large number of movie projects for their site, and would like to limit the number of stars/producers that will (either earnestly or just to polish their own images) drop out on the grounds that "they don't do business with companies that enable this sort of horrible thing."

[Joker]

Dustin Hoffman now, too.