Kevin Spacey, the American actor best known for his performance in House of Cards, will return to the screen after four years with a cameo role in the Italian film L’uomo Che Disegnò Dio, Variety reported.
The actor, who was accused of sexual harassment in 2017, will play the role of a police detective in the upcoming Franco Nero film.
“I’m very happy Kevin agreed to participate in my film,” Nero told ABC News. “I consider him a great actor and I can’t wait to start the movie.”
The film will feature Nero along with his wife Vanessa Redgrave.
Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct by Star Trek actor Anthony Rapp, who alleged that the former had made a sexual advance towards him in 1986 when Rapp was 14. Several similar complaints followed and consequently Spacey was ousted from the Netflix show House of Cards in which he also served as an executive producer. At least 20 men reported sexual misconduct by Spacey at the London theatre, the Old Vic, between 1995 and 2013. Investigators have not clarified whether they would bring criminal charges against Spacey, according to The Associated Press.
His name featured alongside the likes of Harvey Weinstein in the Me Too movement, that began gaining traction in 2017.
Netflix later cancelled Gore, the biopic on Gore Vidal starring Spacey.
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The Academy Award-winning actor last appeared on the big screen in Billionaire Boys Club in 2018 and has since been either removed or replaced from his remaining projects. Billionaire Boys Club reportedly fared a record-low gross of $618 from 11 theatres in the USA in its opening weekend.
On the same day of Rapp’s allegations, Spacey came out as a gay on Twitter and said that he had “loved and had romantic encounters with men” throughout his life, and apologised to the actor calling his behaviour to be “inappropriate drunken behaviour”.
The step was criticised by many who claimed it as a stunt to shift focus from the matter at hand.
Kevin Spacey really tried to throw the entire LGBT community under a bus and call it solidarity in an effort to mask his personal failings.
— deray (@deray) October 30, 2017
— Zachary Quinto (@ZacharyQuinto) October 30, 2017