Rapp is most famous for being an original Broadway cast member of Rent and for his role on the Paramount+ show Star Trek: Discovery.
NEW YORK — Actor Anthony Rapp faced Kevin Spacey from the witness stand on Friday, and detailed how he felt like a “deer in the headlights” when Spacey allegedly threw him on a bed and mounted him when he was a teen., testified that it happened after a 1986 party at Spacey’s Upper West Side apartment, where he was the youngest guest.
He described how the Oscar winner allegedly laid him down on the bed, climbed on top of him and put the full weight of his body on his chest. Rapp mimicked Spacey interlocking his arms under his own and cupping his shoulders with his hands. “I was this 14-year-old child, and I had no desire to have any kind of experience like this in my life, and it was incredibly frightening and very alarming and totally antithetical to anything else I had ever experienced around the community of people I loved being a part of,” Rapp said. He went on to testify that it “disrupted a sense of belonging in this community that was so important to me.”
A second Spacey accuser took the stand Friday to describe accusations that Spacey manhandled him in 1981. He said he “very clearly” saw Spacey was sexually aroused when Spacey lifted him by his crotch onto a desk.
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