House of Cards star and executive producer Kevin Spacey has had some very choice words for the entertainment industry recently, with a particular focus on television executives.
The Oscar-wining actor gave the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival where he spoke for about an hour about the current state of the medium. During the course of the talk, Spacey called out industry heads for lacking the imagination and strength of will to create the kind of content that audiences are demanding.
"We know what works and the only thing we don't know is why it's so difficult to find executives with the fortitude, the wisdom and the balls to do it," he said, criticizing the standard pilot process versus the straight-to-series model.
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