US actor Anthony Rapp told a New York courtroom Friday that he froze up when he was allegedly assaulted by Kevin Spacey as a minor in 1986, on the second day of the disgraced Oscar winner's trial over the accusation. Spacey, 63, has disappeared from public view after becoming one of the first stars to be caught up in the global #MeToo reckoning over sexual abuse. Rapp told the court he was still an unknown actor when he met the "American Beauty" star, who was in his late 20s at the time. Rapp, then 14, and friend and fellow actor John Barrowman, then 18, had seen a show starring Spacey in New York and went to greet the cast after the performance. Spacey invited the two teens to dinner and then for a drink at a nightclub. A few days later, he invited them to a gathering of friends at his Manhattan studio. Barrowman had since gone home to Illinois, so Rapp attended alone. Upon seeing that he did not know anyone there, he went to a bedroom to watch television. He was sitting on the bed when he looked up and saw Spacey. Spacey's eyes were glazed over, and he told the younger actor he was drunk, Rapp told Judge Lewis Kaplan. The teen realized that everyone else had gone. "He...
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