Netflix set to fold 'Cards'
Production on the sixth and final season of “House of Cards” has been suspended indefinitely — two days after sexual-harassment allegations surfaced against star Kevin Spacey.
The series is on ice so that producers Media Rights Capital and Netflix can “review the current situation and to address any concerns of our cast and crew,” the two companies said Tuesday in a joint statement.
Netflix had announced Monday that the popular political drama would end after the sixth season, which began production a few weeks ago in Baltimore.
The companies say they are “deeply troubled” by allegations that Spacey once made sexual advances toward a 14-year-old actor. He has also been accused of groping a “young male” while he was working as the artistic director of London’s Old Vic theater.
Spacey’s estranged brother, meanwhile, said he is “not surprised” by the allegations — and said their father was a “Nazi child rapist” who abused them for years.
“We’re not too surprised. And we know that Kevin has been in the closet for a long time,” Randall Fowler’s agent, Bonnie Soto, told the Sun.
Fowler, a Rod Stewart impersonator and limo driver who lives in Idaho, also said he had been sexually abused by their father, Thomas Geoffrey Fowler — whom they called “The Creature.”
“Kevin tried to avoid what was going on by wrapping himself in an emotional bubble,” he told the Daily Mail. “He had no feelings.”