Robin Wright, who is pressing ahead as the marquee player on House of Cards after Kevin Spacey's scandal-riddled ouster last fall, is finally speaking out about her former co-star. In an exclusive interview with "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, Wright made plain that she and Spacey punched the same time clock and left it at that.
"We were co-workers really. We never socialized outside of work," said Wright, who starred alongside Spacey for five seasons as Claire Underwood, the Lady Macbeth to his calculating political machine Frank Underwood. Wright added that the two Netflix stars had a "respectful professional relationship."
Last November, Netflix announced that it was severing ties with Spacey just days after the Oscar winner was accused of sexual misconduct by actor Anthony Rapp, who said Spacey had made sexual advances toward him when he was 14 and Spacey 26. Since Rapp's accusation, Spacey has faced numerous other accusations of sexual misconduct, most recently last week.
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Had she reached out to Spacey?
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But was there anything, anything at all that pointed to the actor's swift fall from grace?
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When asked if Netflix did the right thing by firing Spacey, Wright said she "didn't know how to comment on that." But the actress did add that the temperature at the time was feverish. "At that time the shock was so intense all over the nation for many reasons, many stories, many people. I think that everybody felt that it was respectful to back off," she said.
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"This last year I think has shined a light in a new way to allow us to start a new conversation," she said. "So we just need to shift the paradigm."
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