Kevin Spacey's behavior led to temporary shutdown on 'The Usual Suspects'

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Gabriel Byrne, one of the leads from 1995 mystery The Usual Suspects, says co-star Kevin Spacey, who won a supporting-actor Oscar for his breakout role, caused production to shut down for two days due to his predatory behavior. But Byrne told Britain's Sunday Times that at the time, he and the rest of the cast and crew did not understand the reason for the shutdown: Spacey had been accused of making advances towards a younger actor. (Byrne did not name that castmate.) "It was only years later that we began to understand that (production) was closed down for a particular reason and that was because of inappropriate sexual behavior by Spacey," he recalled, noting that although people would dismiss his behavior by saying, "That's Kevin," no one on the set "understood the depth of his predations."

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