Guy Pearce chokes up while saying Kevin Spacey 'targeted' him ...

Kevin Spacey lambasted Guy Pearce on Tuesday after Pearce said in an interview that Spacey “targeted” him when they worked together on the 1997 film “L.A. Confidential.”

Spacey addressed Pearce directly in a face-to-camera video posted on X in which he denied the claims and criticized Pearce for going to the media.

"We could have had that conversation, but instead, you’ve decided to speak to the press, who are now, of course, coming after me, because they would like to know what my response is to the things that you said," Spacey said in the video. "You really want to know what my response is? Grow up."

"Did you also, by the way, tell the press that a year after we shot 'L.A. Confidential,' you flew to Savannah, Georgia while I was shooting 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,' just to spend time with me?" Spacey said in the video. "Did you tell the press that too, or does that not fit into the victim narrative you have going?"

Representatives for Pearce did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday afternoon.

Pearce, the Oscar-nominated star of “The Brutalist,” was a guest on The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast released Monday. In the interview, he choked up while recounting being allegedly pursued by Spacey during filming of the 1997 Academy Award-winning film.

“I was sort of scared of Kevin because he’s quite an aggressive man,” Pearce, 57, said. “He’s extremely charming and brilliant at what he does — really impressive, etc. He holds a room remarkably. But I was young and susceptible, and he targeted me, no question.”

Pearce did not disclose the details or dates of the alleged encounters. He said he had a “couple of confrontations with Kevin” that “got ugly” since filming “L.A. Confidential.”

Spacey, 65, has spent the better part of the last decade fighting off allegations of sexual harassment and assault, all of which he has denied. He alluded to the accusations in his video response Tuesday, describing having "been through hell and back."

In 2017, actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of sexually assaulting him when Rapp was 14 and Spacey was 26. Rapp sued Spacey in federal civil court in 2020. Spacey was found not liable on all counts. 

The disgraced "House of Cards" star and Oscar winner was also accused of groping an 18-year-old at a Massachusetts bar in 2016. Charges were dropped in 2019 after the accuser refused to testify.

Spacey was acquitted again last year after a U.K. jury found him not guilty of sexually assaulting four men while working as the artistic director of London's Old Vic Theatre. The accusations dated from 2004 to 2013. An additional lawsuit alleging sexual abuse was filed against Spacey and Old Vic Theatre in the U.K. last week.

In the podcast interview, Pearce recalled the moment he first heard about the allegations against Spacey in 2017.

“I heard this and I broke down and sobbed, and I couldn’t stop," Pearce said. "I think it really dawned on me the impact that had occurred and how I sort of brushed it off and how I had either shelved it or blocked it out or whatever. That was a really incredible wake-up call I suppose.”

Pearce first suggested he had unwanted encounters with Spacey on an Australian talk show in 2018, calling Spacey "a handsy guy." Shortly afterward, he issued a statement clarifying that he "wasn’t sexually assaulted or molested, I was made to feel uncomfortable."

The Australian actor said that today he is "more honest about it now," but still hesitates to call himself a victim.

“Even though I probably was a victim to a degree, I was certainly not a victim by any means to the extent that other people have been to sexual predators," Pearce said.

Spacey ended his video Tuesday by asking Pearce to have a conversation— and suggested they do so live on X.

"I’ve got nothing to hide. But guy, you need to grow up," he said. "You are not a victim."