Kevin Spacey set for return to movies with paedophilia drama

The actor, who has been the subject of multiple sexual misconduct allegations, is to play a detective in Franco Nero's film about a man wrongly suspected of child abuse

Kevin Spacey, the actor who has faced numerous allegations of sexual misconduct over the past four years, is set to return to film acting with a small role as a detective in an Italian crime drama.

Spacey, 61, will play a police officer investigating the case of a man - played by the director, Franco Nero - who can draw people by listening to their voices, despite not being able to see and is wrongly accused of sexually abusing children.