And yet, after three years of lying low in London, he is set to re-emerge. Spacey, now 61, is planning to star in an Italian-language film with Vanessa Redgrave, directed by her husband, Franco Nero. In the wake of the scandal, Spacey was sacked from House Of Cards and replaced in the film All The Money In The World He is to play a detective who is investigating claims of paedophilia. These are levelled against a blind artist, to be played by Nero himself. The plot shows the claims to be baseless. Filming is about to start in Turin. Nero, 79, said: ‘It’s a true story — the story of a man who, though blind, creates sculptures of people’s faces.