Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor, film director, producer, singer and comedian who has resided in the United Kingdom since 2003. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s that culminated in his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller The Usual Suspects, and an Academy Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 July 1959
CitySouth Orange, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
It's a journey towards truthfulness, towards reality. I think that's a wonderful challenge for Kevin Spacey - he's a great actor and what he has demonstrated on film many times is a wonderful truthfulness.
It's one of those films that kind of defies the 10-second blurb,
It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.
It's the details and the human element that makes 'Recount' entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. It's also funny.
You try to do the best work that you can do to give audiences something that maybe they haven't seen before and keep challenging yourself.
It's a remarkable play, very funny and provocative and challenging, and to have a new work is a double whammy for us,
I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.
Whether it's 'Veep' or 'Homeland' or 'The West Wing' - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.
Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.
There does seem to be in the U.S. now an ideology and an entrenchment that has stopped people doing what they are hired to do, which is govern rather than run for office the whole time.
You can almost hear people saying, 'We're going to make a movie about an election' and 'We're going to make a movie about a lobbyist.' You can hear the yawning start across the nation.
When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.
What I've certainly learned is that whenever I've said anything about real politics, I've come under attack. So it's best simply to play politics on television.