Kevin Spacey posts bizarre video suggesting you 'kill people with kindness'

Maria Puente | USA TODAY

Kevin Spacey is back with a head-scratching video timed to Christmas Eve.

The Oscar winner, who faced a criminal groping charge on Nantucket this year until the prosecution's case collapsed, posted a video of himself sitting in front of a roaring fire, wearing a holiday sweater and drawling about Christmas, having "my health back," "making changes in my life" and casting his vote for "more good in this world."

It's not clear what this latest video missive from Spacey is supposed to be – the real Spacey or Spacey as one of his dramatic alter egos from decades past. Spacey did not mention his former "House of Cards" role of Frank Underwood, though his last video, shared one year ago, was done as that character and with the same accent.

"I know what you're thinking, can he be serious? I'm dead serious, and it's not that hard, trust me," he says in the clip shared Tuesday. "The next time someone does something you don't like, you can go on the attack but you can also hold your fire and do the unexpected.

"You can kill them with kindness."

Cue the spooky music.

Spacey shared the video on YouTube and his verified Twitter account as well, marking his only post on Twitter this calendar year. His previous tweet was the video he shared last Christmas Eve.

USA TODAY reached out to Spacey's criminal defense lawyer, Alan Jackson, in Los Angeles; he has not returned the call. A spokesperson for Spacey has not come forward publicly for nearly two years.

Kevin Spacey criminal groping case dropped by prosecutors Kevin Spacey was one of the first Hollywood figures to be accused of multiple allegations of sexual misconduct beginning in November 2017.

Spacey may not be under criminal prosecution anymore, but his movie and TV career hasn't been revived since it cratered when the first of more than a dozen men began coming forward in October 2017 to publicly accuse him of sexual misconduct, including attempted rape of an underage teen.

After that, he was fired from "Cards," dropped from a major movie and lost a deal to make a Gore Vidal biopic as allegations of misconduct accumulated in Los Angeles, New York and London.

So far, none of these allegations has yet resulted in criminal charges except for one: Spacey was accused of groping an 18-year-old bus boy in summer 2016 in a Nantucket, Massachusetts, restaurant/bar.

But the case fell apart during a pretrial hearing in July when the accuser, by then 21, abruptly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination while being questioned about the mysterious disappearance of his cellphone and whether he or his mother had deleted texts from the night in question. With the accuser refusing to testify, prosecutors dropped the charges.

Since then, Spacey, 60, has surfaced publicly once, when he read a poem about a worn-out and dejected boxer during an unexpected performance at a Rome museum weeks after the Nantucket case came to an end.

Spacey seems to have developed a penchant for "speaking" publicly in baffling videos through the southern drawl of Frank Underwood, the murderous president he played in "House of Cards."

Last Christmas, he posted a video on YouTube, titled "Let Me Be Frank."

"Conclusions can be so deceiving," he said in the video, which shows him at a kitchen sink, washing his hands while wearing an apron. "Miss me?"