Kevin Spacey Says Frank Underwood Would Laugh at 2016 Campaign, Discusses Donald Trump Debate
House of Cards main character Frank Underwood, played by two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, has become synonymous with cunning politics and general evil in the Netflix flagship series. As the 2016 presidential campaign continues in real life as well as the season 6 of the show, the actor weighs in on how Frank would act if he were in this race -- and how a debate with Donald Trump would go down.
According to PBS, the actor is currently attending the yearly World Economic Forum in the Swiss city of Davos, where he shared with a room of CEOs and world leaders that his TV character would find the current campaign "amusing."
In the same event, CNBC also asked the actor how a debate between Trump and Underwood would go down if the Netflix character was in fact running this year. Taking a leaf out of Underwood's book, the actor seemed pretty convinced that the debate would never even take place.
"There would be a terrible accident on the way to the debate, and, it would be terrible and very sad," said Spacey.
In HoC's three seasons, Underwood has already killed off a few characters to get ahead, besides obviously professionally jumping over others. Notoriously, the fictitious and very Machiavellian Democratic Party politician has already directly caused the deaths of Kate Mara's Zoe Barnes, Corey Stoll's Peter Russo and, in last year's season, Rachel Brosnahan's Rachel Posner.
Speaking in public about current politics, Spacey compared fictional politician Underwood to billionaire Trump, taking the time to tell the crowd that Trump was running a campaign a little too similar to that of Alabama Governor George Wallace. For this, the American Beauty actor drew comparisons between the segregationist politician and Trump's many controversial remarks on minorities, such as his suggestions of banning Muslims from entering the U.S. and building a wall on the Mexican border.