Kevin Spacey has told jurors that he “primarily” has no issue with what one complainant told the court after meeting the man in a pub near Oxford.
The Oscar-winning actor began giving evidence from the witness box at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday after allegedly making a series of advances on four men.
He denies charges including sexual assault and indecent assault, which are alleged to have been committed between 2001 and 2013.
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Spacey is accused of having had a “panicked” look on his face after a man, who he met in a pub near Oxford, rejected an alleged sexual grab at an expensive property he was staying at in the Cotswolds in the early 2010s.
The actor gave the complainant what he described as “an awkward man hug”.
Spacey allegedly kissed the man’s neck twice during the hug while telling him “be cool, be cool”, before grabbing him intimately.
The complainant pushed the actor against the wall and told him he did not “bat for that team” before leaving “in a bit of a panicky state”.
The American Beauty actor told jurors: “I don’t remember doing that but I accept that I did.
“I primarily, with a few issues…I have no issue with what (the man) testified to.
“We all had some drinks…I made a pass and I’m only happy that he testified that the moment he told me he was not interested I stopped.”
Asked if he sought the man out the following day and why, Spacey said: “I can only presume that I went there to apologise.”
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The actor said he did not remember a “great deal” about that evening.
The 63-year-old told jurors he is a “big flirt” and described his encounters with two of the other alleged victims as “comfortable” or “relaxed”, while insisting “nothing happened” with a third.
Spacey said an aspiring actor’s claims that he drugged him and performed a sex act on him while he was asleep in his flat were false, saying the pair had shared an “intimate moment”.
The defendant also described his relationship with a man who drove him to a lavish showbiz party in the early 2000s as “somewhat intimate”, but denied assaulting him in a “violent, aggressive, painful way”.
As well as describing allegations by a man he met in a West End theatre in the mid-2000s as “madness”, he told the jury that claims he directed a “barrage of vile comments” at him were words he had “never said… to anyone in my life”.
Spacey pleaded not guilty in January to three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.
The two-time Academy Award winner also previously denied four further charges of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.
The trial continues.
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