Kevin Spacey got 'a little weird' on the set of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: 'We all had to fake laugh'

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Spacey played the villainous CEO of the Atlas Corporation.

Kevin Spacey in Advanced Warfare
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2014's Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will always be the game that made us "Press F to pay respects", a weird moment of interactivity that undercut what was meant to be an emotional scene. Even when we're all gone, the meme will live on.

If there's one other thing that you'll probably remember about Sledgehammer's foray into future warfare, it's that it starred Kevin Spacey. In 2014, he was on a high, and generating some memes himself, specifically as Frank Underwood in Netflix's House of Cards. Only a few years later, allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault were made against him.

"When he was on set, and we said action, he was unbelievable. He just is a great actor, right? Then when we said cut, you could tell the videogames weren't his thing. We had to get him a trailer. So he had a trailer outside that he would go in and he was a little bit more difficult, I would say. But boy, when you said action [Schofield exhales]. There’s a speech where he talks about democracy, and that's just a really amazing speech."

Fraser Brown
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Fraser is the UK online editor and has actually met The Internet in person. With over a decade of experience, he's been around the block a few times, serving as a freelancer, news editor and prolific reviewer. Strategy games have been a 30-year-long obsession, from tiny RTSs to sprawling political sims, and he never turns down the chance to rave about Total War or Crusader Kings. He's also been known to set up shop in the latest MMO and likes to wind down with an endlessly deep, systemic RPG. These days, when he's not editing, he can usually be found writing features that are 1,000 words too long or talking about his dog. 

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