The MRC company asked for compensation for removing the script of the successful series to exclude the actor, accused of sexual harassment.
Le Monde with AFP.
The American actor Kevin Spacey was sentenced to pay $ 31 million to the company that produced the House of Cards series, in which he embodied the main character until he was returned as a result of Charges of sexual harassment, according to legal documents published on Monday. Media Rights Capital (MRC), the production company at the origin of this successful series of political intrigues in Washington, requested damages for revenue losses allocated from the actor.
In the published legal documents, MRC explains that following these accusations of harassment the company suspended the actor and launched an internal investigation that had revealed that the star of the film American Beauty (1999) was actually made guilty of such actions. This wave of charges had put a brutal term to the career of the actor, today 62 years old, in the countryside of the #metoo movement denouncing the sexual violence in Hollywood after the revelations aiming for producer Harvey Weinstein.
Kevin Spacey, who won two Oscars, played the role of an unscrupulous political man in the five seasons of House of Cards, before accusations of sexual harassment appear in the press. The departure of the actor has forced the producers to reorganize the series, which caused “substantial losses”, “said MRC, which also explains that he never had awareness of reprehensible facts by Kevin Spacey before that these accusations are revealed. The script had to be reworked to exclude the character embodied by Kevin Spacey and reorganize the whole sixth season, brought back from thirteen to eight episodes.