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Two actually...
Jian Ghomeshi - Something about him told me he's trying way too hard to project the feel of cool, smooth, groovy and suave. Just had a creepy feeling about the guy the whole time, was waiting for the news basically. Then it came out that he was violently assaulting and raping women.
Kevin Spacey - Having grown up with sociopaths, I could see right through the guy. Trying and not doing a great job of acting human, in the way somebody who's not really human thinks humans act.
I didn't save it but about a year or so before the news broke about him I saw a reddit comment of a guy claiming to have seen him (Spacey) in a South East Asian with drunk boys, boys boys not 20 year olds, in a private booth at a restaurant in a redlight district.
Guy freaked out when people asked him more questions and seemed very unnerved by the whole thing.
If you've got Hollywood money and you're not out of the closet, you wouldn't be doing that in public, not even in SE Asia. He'd get mobbed. The boys would be visiting his hotel room / rented villa.
That's an astute observation.
I always find it interesting what can happen if you let an idea have enough credence just to look at it and see if it's plausible, and then immediately realize what the slightest scratching of the surface that it isn't!
Take your word on this.
I never watched Ghomeshi's program and never had a personal opinion about him one way or the other prior to the allegations, but I think it's important to be clear and accurate when making these statements (because inaccuracies weaken/discredit the whole). While it came out Ghomeshi is a misogynist who engaged in sexual harassment and enjoys violence against women, it also came out at trial that the women conspired together beforehand when they made the allegations of rape against them. Creep? Yes. Misogynist? Yes. Stay away from him? Definitely. Rapist? Not proven.
Totally fair point, and it's actually something I align with. We often judge people based on spotty information delivered by questionable news reports and it's not fair to make a condemnation of somebody based on those.
However, my distrust of his character was appropriate, when the news came out it confirmed that guy was not what he was presenting as his image.