Kevin Spacey has fired back at Guy Pearce in a video posted on X, telling his L.A. Confidential co-star to “grow up.” Pearce recently told The Hollywood Reporter that Spacey targeted him on set of the 1997 Oscar-winning crime drama. Pearce called Spacey “quite an aggressive man,” but added, “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.”

In his response, Spacey said he would’ve preferred if Pearce had not “played this out in the media,” adding:

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. But instead, you decided to speak to the press, who of course are now coming after me because they’d like to know what my response is to the things that you said. You really want to know what my response is? Grow up. Did you also, by the way, tell the press that a year after we shot ‘L.A. Confidential’ you flew to Savannah, Georgia, while I was shooting ‘Midnight in the Valley of Good and Evil’ just to spend time with me? Did you tell the press that, too? Or does that not fit into the victim narrative you have going? I apologize that I didn’t get the message that you don’t like spending time with me. Maybe there was another reason, I don’t know.

Spacey has not worked in Hollywood since being accused by several men of sexual misconduct in 2017. Afterward, several legal cases were brought against Spacey. In 2022, a New York jury concluded that Spacey was not guilty of molesting actor Anthony Rapp, who had accused him of sexual assault in the early 1980s. Rapp was 14 at the time. The following year, a U.K. court found Spacey not guilty of nine charges of sexual assault from four complainants. Other charges and lawsuits have been dropped. Spacey has denied all allegations.

Prominent actors such as Sharon Stone, Liam Neeson, and Brian Cox have defended Spacey and called for his return to Hollywood. Cox recently told The i Paper that he never found Spacey to be an abusive person. Stone told The Telegraph last year she “can’t wait to see Kevin back at work. He is a genius. He is so elegant and fun, generous to a fault and knows more about our craft than most of us ever will.”

Grow up, Guy Pearce. You are not a victim. pic.twitter.com/33paGTj4Aq

— Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) February 18, 2025