He commanded the screen in movies like Se7en, The Usual Suspects and L.A. Confidential, earning him two Oscars and countless red carpet moments. Now, years after being cancelled by Hollywood, Kevin Spacey says he’s couch-surfing for work and is technically homeless.
“I’m living in hotels, I’m living in Airbnbs, I’m going where the work is,” he told The Telegraph. “I literally have no home, that’s what I’m attempting to explain.”
Back in 2017, allegations against the actor sent his career into a tailspin. He maintains he did nothing wrong, and the legal system actually agreed with him on the big cases. In 2022, a New York jury found him not liable in Anthony Rapp’s civil suit. In 2023, a London court acquitted him of criminal charges. But the payouts, the legal grind and Hollywood slamming the door wiped him out financially. He even had to sell his home in Baltimore.
“The costs over these last seven years have been astronomical,” he explained. “I’ve had very little coming in and everything going out.”
Spacey calls it a return to his roots, saying he feels like he did in his early twenties: hustling. “In weird ways, I feel I’m back to where I first started, which is I just went where the work was,” he said. “Everything is in storage, and I hope at some point, if things continue to improve, that I’ll be able to decide where I want to settle down again.”
Spacey is also looking inward. “Why was I such a good villain? Why did I fit so well into a narrative that was out there?” he wonders and admits he wasn’t always the friendliest guy. “Even though I tried not to be a jerk, I think that to some degree I always was a jerk.”
He believes fans still have his back, but not the studios so much.
It goes to show that one day you could be staying in the biggest hotels in the world, the next you could be Kevin Spacey, homeless and living in Airbnbs.
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