Mena Suvari explains writing about Kevin Spacey in new book

Suvari credits therapy for enabling her to look back and allow herself to "consider how I was treated," and "the type of things that I encountered, because I would always excuse it.” Photo: AP

Mena Suvari wants to explain her reasoning for writing about Kevin Spacey on the set of their 1999 film American Beauty in her new book The Great Peace (Hachette).

Spacey won an Oscar for his role in the film as Lester Burnham, a suburban husband and father in the midst of a midlife crisis, who becomes fixated on his daughter’s best friend, Angela, played by Suvari.