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Kevin Spacey's interview

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Kevin Spacey

Is he, or isn't he? Will he, or won't he? These are the questions that have constantly been asked of Kevin Spacey's sexuality, and whether or not he'll ever tell all on the record. Well, the Oscar winner has moved a step closer to (somewhat) revealing a little more in his reasoning for why he has opted not to be open about his private life.






In an interview with Kevin Sessums for the Daily Beast, Spacey is given the opportunity to take his chat off the record (which he declines) and is then asked why "gay men have always proudly claimed you as a member of our tribe, and yet you don't proudly claim us back". His answer? "Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy."





"Let's enlarge the subject even more," he says, after further probing. "I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing. I think young people, if they are feeling like they are confused, need to know that there are people to talk to and that there are places they can go and not feel alone. But I feel that they have just as many rights as I do to not be bullied. And I don't understand people who say, 'Well, this is a terrible thing that is happening to this young person whose life is being exposed,' and then turn around and do it to another person. People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box. It's just a line I've never crossed and never will."





Further on in the interview, Sessums goes on to suggest that there's a certain level of dishonesty in not telling the whole story of one's life, to which Spacey retorts, "I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living a lie. That is a presumption that people jump to."





"Look, at the end of the day people have to respect people's differences," Spacey goes on to say. "I am different than some peoplewould like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political. I just think that's horseshit. No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story. Now some people feed that. They'll go to the trendy restaurants where all the photographers are and then bitch about being famous. But if you don't want to feed that and you want your life to be based around what your work is then it ends there."





While Spacey's sentiments may have given you some insight into why he's opted to keep his private life private, don't expect a tell-all anytime soon.







Photo above, Kevin Spacey at Soho Apple Store in NYC. © GettyImages.



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