Kevin Spacey is homeless

Kevin - who has been cleared of multiple sexual misconduct charges - told The Daily Telegraph newspaper: "[I lost my house] because the costs over these last seven years have been astronomical. I've had very little coming in and everything going out.

"You get through it. In weird ways, I feel I'm back to where I first started, which is I just went where the work was. Everything is in storage, and I hope at some point, if things continue to improve, that I'll be able to decide where I want to settle down again.

"I'm living in hotels, I'm living in Airbnbs, I'm going where the work is. I literally have no home, that's what I'm attempting to explain."

After admitting his finances are "not great", the Oscar-winning star was asked if he had feared bankruptcy and replied: "It was discussed, but it never got to that point."

The 66-year-old actor has been shunned by Hollywood in recent years, though he has made six movies in the last three years, largely working with emerging filmmakers, but he's convinced he will eventually get his career back to where it used to be.

He said: "We are in touch with some extremely powerful people who want to put me back to work.

"And that will happen in its right time. But I will also say what I think the industry seems to be waiting for is to be given permission - by someone who is in some position of enormous respect and authority."

Kevin compared his situation to the 1950s wave of blacklisting those in Hollywood who were deemed to have communist sympathies, "when a lot of people were not guilty of what they were accused of", and highlighted Dalton Trumbo, who was forced to write scripts under a pseudonym until Spartacus producer Otto Preminger stood by him using his real name.

He said: "When he said, 'Dalton Trumbo's name is going on Spartacus,' everyone around him said, 'You're crazy, you're going to get cancelled.'

"And Kirk Douglas said, 'You know what, we get to play the hero in movies, but it's not that simple in life.' He was willing to stand up and say enough is enough. The moment he did that, the blacklist was over.

"So, my feeling is if Martin Scorsese or Quentin Tarantino call Evan [Lowenstein, manager] tomorrow, it will be over. I will be incredibly honoured and delighted when that level of talent picks up the phone.

"And I believe it's going to happen."