You can't sit with us
Brunch|January 20, 2024
Cancel culture is in Phase 2. Disgraced celebs are riffing on their experiences and are even more popular. Was the movement flawed from the start?
Urvee Modwel
You can't sit with us

Remember 2017? It was the year Kevin Spacey was cast out of Hollywood, after Broadway actor Anthony Rapp accused him of making sexual advances in 1986 when Rapp was only 14. Spacey handled the news poorly. He used the attention to come out of the closet, and issued a statement on Twitter saying he owed Rapp "the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior".

The public, however, viewed it as an attempt to distract against his harassment of the underage boy.

Spacey was fired from his hit Netflix show House of Cards. Other projects and his non-profit were shut.

His agents and publicist dumped him. Yet, in October, Spacey was back. At a lecture that covered Shakespeare and cancel culture, he performed a scene from Timon of Athens. He received a standing ovation.

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