Kevin Spacey Resurrected Frank Underwood for Comedian Tim Dillon

 

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Oh, come on, it’s not even Christmas yet — we thought we had months to go before we had to worry about Kevin Spacey getting in character for another Frank Underwood video. The actor broke from his typical festive timing to reprise the House of Cards role in promo for comedian Tim Dillon’s new Netflix special, I’m Your Mother. In the two-and-a-half minute clip, Underwood attempts to blackmail Dillon with dirt that he quickly discovers Dillon has voluntarily shared with the internet. “There is no limit to your duplicity, to your pandering, to your shameless and desperate desire to cling to relevance,” says Spacey, who surely must realize that that’s how many people view him with regard to any attempts at a Hollywood comeback. After calling Dillon his “kind of bastard,” Spacey’s Underwood agrees to plug Dillon’s special. But when told that it is airing on Netflix, he calls the comedian a “foul, lonesome, evil little cockroach.”

Dillon described the promo with Spacey as “lots of fun” in a video posted to his Instagram Story. “Netflix didn’t know we were doing it, but they’ve been super cool about it,” Dillon added. “That was a really fun show that they did, and they should bring it back and redo season six.” (Netflix did not immediately respond to Vulture’s request for comment.) The streamer previously fired Spacey from the political drama in 2017 after Anthony Rapp kicked off a chain of sexual misconduct allegations against the veteran actor. Underwood was dead at the start of the final season of House of Cards, and Spacey was later ordered to pay the show’s producers $31 million, though the sum was reduced to $1 million in 2024.

Spacey was found not liable in 2022 in a case brought by Rapp, and was also found not guilty in a U.K. sex-crimes trial the following year. Although he has maintained his innocence, Spacey’s reputation has never fully recovered from the fact that more than 30 people (including Guy Pearce, as recently as this February) have leveled sexual-misconduct allegations against him. But Dillon has not shied away from potentially controversial ways of pushing his special. In the same Instagram Story video where he mentioned Spacey, Dillon also promoted I’m Your Mother with an apparent reference to the mega-prison where the U.S. made the contentious decision to send a Maryland father with protected legal status and no criminal record. “Go watch [the special] right now, appreciate it, share it with your friends and family,” Dillon said. “Even people in that prison in El Salvador will enjoy it.”

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 “Netflix didn’t know we were doing it, but they’ve been super cool about it,” Dillon said of a promo clip featuring Spacey in character. 

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