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Kevin Spacey Uses Poem to Tell World: ‘The More You’re Wounded the Greater You Are, and the More Empty’

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In Rome, Kevin Spacey would not answer questions about Anthony Rapp and alleged sexual assaults. Instead, he performed a poem about a beaten-up boxer determined not to give up.

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ROME— At times, it wasn't clear if Kevin Spacey was talking about the chiseled nude bronze alongside him, the poem he was reading, or himself.

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