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Posted: 2022-10-08T02:22:56Z | Updated: 2022-10-08T02:22:56Z

NEW YORK (AP) An actor whos accused Kevin Spacey of making a sexual advance on him as a 14-year-old recounted the episode for a New York City jury on Friday, testifying he felt helpless when Spacey climbed on top of him in bed.

I was frozen, Anthony Rapp said on the second day of a civil trial in Manhattan. I was pinned underneath him. I didnt know what to do.

In a halting voice, Rapp testified that the then-26-year-old Spacey had invited him to a party at his Upper East Side apartment when both actors were starring on Broadway in 1986. He said after he wandered into a bedroom to watch TV and get away from adults, an intoxicated-looking Spacey joined him after the other guests had left.

Rapp said Spacey, after lifting him and laying him down on the bed, pressed the full weight of his chest and groin into him. He said he found a way to slip away and flee the apartment, but not before Spacey asked, Are you sure you want to leave?

Asked by his lawyer how he would respond to anyone who downplayed the severity of what happened, Rapp responded by describing himself as a frightened child trying to fend off a grown man.

He added: Im grateful that that 14-year-old boy had the wherewithal to get away. Id also say he shouldnt have gone through that in the first place.

As Rapp, sometimes taking deep breaths, testified, Spacey wrote notes on a pad or sat with his hands folded.

Rapp, 50, came forward with the accusation in 2017, when he was the first among others who largely shut down Spaceys career with multiple claims of inappropriate touching or sexual advances.

At the time, Spacey was starring in Netflixs political thriller House of Cards. Hes also known for his role in the 1999 film American Beauty, which won him an Academy Award.