Actor Kevin Spacey released a strange video on Monday in which he appeared to directly address allegations of sexual assault and misconduct in the style of Frank Underwood, his character from the Netflix series “House of Cards.”

Variety reports that Spacey, 59, is facing a felony charge of sexual assault in Massachusetts in connection with an alleged incident from 2016 in which he is accused of sticking his hand down a teen’s pants.

In the three-minute video posted to YouTube, titled “Let Me Be Frank,” Spacey, whose character was killed off in the sixth and final season of the show after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against the actor, appears in a kitchen wearing a holiday apron dotted with Santas. He rinses his hands in a sink, then stares directly into the camera. (On the show, Underwood is known for asides in which he breaks the fourth wall to engage with the viewer.)

“I know what you want,” he says in Underwood’s trademark Southern drawl. “Oh, sure, they may have tried to separate us, but what we have is too strong, it’s too powerful. I mean, after all, we shared everything, you and I. I told you my deepest, darkest secrets. I showed you exactly what people are capable of. I shocked you with my honesty, but mostly I challenged you and made you think. And you trusted me, even though you knew you shouldn’t. So we’re not done, no matter what anyone says."

Netflix parted ways with the actor in 2017, putting “House of Cards,” on hiatus. Members of the crew spoke out about alleged sexual misconduct from Spacey behind the scenes of the show, including one production assistant who claimed the actor had groped him as they were driving to the set. Ultimately, the show returned for its final season with Spacey’s co-star, Robin Wright, leading the series with her Claire Underwood character.

“And besides, I know what you want,” Spacey continues in the video. “You want me back. Of course some believed everything and have just been waiting with bated breath to hear me confess it all. They’re just dying to have me declare that everything said is true and that I got what I deserved. Wouldn’t that be easy?”

Spacey goes on to say that things are not that simple, “not in politics and not in life," asking if the viewer would rush to judgment without evidence.

“Would you?” he asks. “Did you?” Spacey then seems to call his exit from “House of Cards” — or his exit from the pinnacle of Hollywood (“an impeachment without a trial,” he says) — an “unsatisfying” ending, what could have been a “memorable sendoff.”

Let Me Be Frank https://t.co/OzVGsX6Xbz — Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) December 24, 2018

The mother of the teen Spacey is alleged to have assaulted, former Boston news anchor Heather Unruh, filed a police report about the incident in 2017, as allegations against the actor began to pile up. She alleged in a press conference in November 2017 that Spacey groped her then 18-year-old son’s crotch after offering him alcohol at a bar in Nantucket (he had told Spacey he was 21). She said when Spacey went to the bathroom, her son ran home.

“It harmed him and it cannot be undone,” she said at the time, adding that she wants Spacey to go to jail. The Unruhs are represented by attorney Mitchell Garabedian (portrayed in the Oscar-winning film “Spotlight”).

On Jan. 7, Spacey is scheduled to be arraigned on a charge of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or over at Nantucket District Court.

“If I didn’t pay the price for the things we both know I did do, I’m certainly not going to pay the price for the things I didn’t do," Spacey goes on to say in the odd video. “Well of course they’re going to say I’m being disrespectful, not playing by the rules. Like I ever played by anyone’s rules before. I never did — and you loved it."

“Despite even my own death, I feel surprisingly good,” Spacey continues, again seeming to allude to his actual character’s death on “House of Cards” (or the death of his career). He then brings up the fact that viewers never actually saw his character die on the show. “Conclusions can be so deceiving,” he says, making his final remarks. “Miss me?" The video closes on a sting of music stereotypically used for suspenseful scenes and cliffhangers.

Spacey, a native of South Orange, was accused of sexual misconduct, assault and harassment by multiple men in 2017, some who said their encounters with him happened when they were underage teenagers and he was an adult. Actor Anthony Rapp leveled the first accusation at the Oscar winner in the wake of the surge in the #MeToo movement that year, which had been spurred by allegations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Rapp claimed that in 1986, Spacey, then 26, had made sexual advances towards him when he was 14. Spacey answered Rapp’s accusation on social media, saying that he did not recall the incident.

“If I did behave as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior,” he said.

In the same statement, Spacey came out as gay. The move drew much criticism, with some saying the actor was deflecting from the seriousness of the allegations or doing harm by conflating sexual misconduct with being gay.

Since the allegations surfaced in 2017, Spacey lost his agent and had not made public appearances.

After Rapp’s allegations went public, a number of other men spoke out, including one anonymous accuser who alleged that he had a sexual relationship with Spacey when he was an underage teen that ended when Spacey attempted to rape him.

Ridley Scott, director of the film “All the Money in the World," recast Spacey’s role with actor Christopher Plummer, reshooting all of his scenes in just nine days.

Police have investigated allegations against Spacey in Los Angeles and the United Kingdom. Spacey served as artistic director of The Old Vic theater in London for more than a decade. A group of 20 people came forward with allegations that Spacey had acted inappropriately before and during his time at the theater. Some connected with the theater said that Spacey had allegedly groped them or groped young men there.

In an essay for BuzzFeed, Harry Dreyfuss, son of actor Richard Dreyfuss, said he was in London in 2008 with his father, who was rehearsing lines with Spacey, when the actor reached into his lap and groped him as his father focused on reading the lines. He was 18 at the time.

In August, a film the actor appears in, “Billionaire Boys Club,” made just $126 on opening day.

Here are some reactions to the Spacey video from Twitter on Monday, where the clip became ... a subject of conversation on Christmas Eve:

Kevin Spacey is due in court to face charges of sexually assaulting a teenage boy. No YouTube video or comeback attempt can erase facts, evidence, and the truth. If he’s found guilty in a court of law, he’ll pay the price and justice will be done. Bye, Frank. *tap* *tap* — Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) December 24, 2018

Wow I thought Kevin Spacey was a sex criminal until he made a video telling me I was too smart to think that. Now I am petitioning Netflix to reboot a show that just ended because I am very intelligent!! — Meredith Haggerty (@manymanywords) December 24, 2018

The Kevin Spacey video is full of ill advised choices but my favorite is that they desaturated it so his kitchen looks like a prison. — chris person (@Papapishu) December 24, 2018

So unlike Kevin Spacey to inflict himself upon us without our encouragement. — Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) December 24, 2018

What would convince me of Kevin Spacey’s innocence? I dunno, if he did a poorly lit Christmas-themed cooking video in character from the show he was fired from — Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) December 24, 2018

Kevin Spacey sliding in at the last minute with the greatest self-own of 2018 — Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 24, 2018

If you play that Kevin Spacey video backwards it’s just Louis saying the n-word over the Seinfeld theme. — Moshe Kasher (@moshekasher) December 24, 2018

(Kevin Spacey is meeting with the worst PR company of all time)



PR flack: "So here's our idea: we film you, in character as Frank Underwood, in a poorly-lit kitchen, reciting a ton of skin-crawling dialogue, and then we release the clip on Christmas Eve."



Spacey: "Perfect" — Scott Wampler™ (@ScottWamplerBMD) December 24, 2018

I’m confused by the Television Academy’s new “@meganamram rule”. Will the Kevin Spacey video be eligible for Outstanding Short Form Emmys or no? — bs (@bart_smith) December 24, 2018

Kevin Spacey just knocked Offset WAY down the shudder-inducing “please take me back” gesture power rankings. — Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) December 24, 2018

Not sure doing a video in character as the guy from Se7en is really going to help Kevin Spacey — new year’s resolution: never log off (@pixelatedboat) December 24, 2018

after watching that Kevin Spacey video I need to cleanse my palette with something less unhinged and creepy like The Human Centipede — Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) December 24, 2018

If any other celebrity needs to go completely insane right now, Kevin Spacey has given you a few hours of cover. — Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) December 24, 2018

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