An actor who’s accused Kevin Spacey of creating a sexual advance on him as a 14-year-old recounted the episode for a New York City jury on Friday, testifying he felt helpless when Spacey climbed on high of him in mattress.
“I was frozen,” Anthony Rapp mentioned on the second day of a civil trial in Manhattan. “I was pinned underneath him. I didn’t know what to do.”
In a halting voice, Rapp testified that the then-26-year-old Spacey had invited him to a celebration at his Upper East Side condo when each actors had been starring on Broadway in 1986. He mentioned after he wandered right into a bed room to look at TV and get away from adults, an intoxicated-looking Spacey joined him after the opposite friends had left.
Rapp mentioned Spacey, after lifting him and laying him down on the mattress, pressed the “full weight” of his chest and groin into him. He mentioned he discovered a approach to slip away and flee the condo, however not earlier than Spacey requested, “Are you sure you want to leave?”
Asked by his lawyer how he would reply to anybody who downplayed the severity of what occurred, Rapp responded by describing himself as a frightened baby attempting to fend off a grown man.
He added: “I’m grateful that that 14-year-old boy had the wherewithal to get away. I’d also say he shouldn’t have gone through that in the first place.”
As Rapp, typically taking deep breaths, testified, Spacey wrote notes on a pad or sat together with his palms folded.
Rapp, 50, got here ahead with the accusation in 2017, when he was the primary amongst others who largely shut down Spacey’s profession with a number of claims of inappropriate touching or sexual advances.
At the time, Spacey was starring in Netflix’s political thriller “House of Cards.” He’s additionally identified for his function within the 1999 movie “American Beauty,” which received him an Academy Award.
As a youngster, Rapp acted in movies together with “Adventures in Babysitting.” He was later a part of the unique Broadway solid of “Rent,” and is now an everyday on “Star Trek: Discovery” on tv.
The trial’s first witness, Andrew Holtzman, claimed Spacey made an identical transfer on him years earlier.
Holtzman, now 68, testified that he was working in his workplace on the New York Shakespeare Festival in the summertime of 1981 when Spacey entered and sat at a spare desk utilized by actors and others who labored for the corporate of seven theaters.
Holtzman mentioned Spacey didn’t say something when he entered the workplace in a windbreaker, “tight blue jeans,” and carrying a leather-based shoulder bag, however he recalled figuring out him as a result of he’d seen his image in this system for a play, “Henry IV,” during which Spacey was performing on the time.
As he completed a phone name, Holtzman stood up at his desk and a sexually aroused Spacey walked over to him, lifted him up by the crotch and put him on the desk, Holtzman recalled.
“What are you doing? Get off of me!” he mentioned he informed Spacey.
“I could feel his erection on my body,” Holtzman mentioned.
After just a few extra minutes, Spacey obtained off him, grabbed his windbreaker and bag and stormed from the workplace, Holtzman mentioned.
Rapp is looking for $40 million in damages for the psychological accidents he says he sustained on account of the encounter with Spacey. He will return to the witness stand when the trial resumes on Tuesday.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com”