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Kevin Spacey has responded to fellow actor Guy Pearce's allegation that the Oscar-winner "targeted" him during the making of 1997 movie LA Confidential, telling the Australian to "grow up", adding: "You are not a victim".

It comes after Pearce - one of the stars of the recent Bafta-winning film The Brutalist - this week expanded on his alleged experiences with the US actor having previously called him "a handsy guy" in 2018.

Spacey - whose career was brought to a halt by a string of allegations - admitted to "being too handsy" and "pushing the boundaries", in an interview last year with Piers Morgan, while saying he'd not done anything illegal.

In 2023 the actor was found not guilty of all charges of sexual assault against four men between 2001 and 2013 after a trial in London; and in 2022 a US court dismissed a sexual assault lawsuit against him.

Spacey currently faces a civil trial over another allegation, which he denies, that he sexually assaulted a man in 2008.