NEW YORK _ Production of "The Usual Suspects" was allegedly shut down for two days after Kevin Spacey was accused of sexually inappropriate behavior toward a young actor on set.
Gabriel Byrne, who played Keaton in the 1995 thriller, said he only learned why filming halted years later.
"I did not know honestly then the extent of his violence," Byrne told the British newspaper Sunday Times.
"I mean, he was kind of a joke in that people would say, 'That's Kevin,' but nobody really understood the depth of his predations. It was only years later that we began to understand that (filming) was closed down for a particular reason and that was because of inappropriate sexual behavior by Spacey."
Spacey won an Oscar for best supporting actor in the movie, which also starred Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Stephen Baldwin, Chazz Palminteri and Pete Postlethwaite and was directed by Bryan Singer. Singer was accused of sexually assaulting several teenagers in 2014, which he denied.
While Byrne didn't disclose the alleged victim, Spacey has been accused by more than a dozen men, including "Star Trek: Discovery" star Anthony Rapp, of sexual harassment and assault.
Spacey has since been fired from "House of Cards" and "All the Money in the World."
