Kevin Spacey, drunk and “unsteady on his feet,” lay down on top of Anthony Rapp to “gratify his own sexual desires” at a celebration in Manhattan in 1986, when Rapp was just 14 and Spacey was 26, a lawyer for Rapp told jurors inside a Recent York courtroom Thursday.

“What happened to Anthony is something that never must have happened,” Rapp’s lawyer, Peter Saghir, told jurors, adding that his client felt “frozen” throughout the alleged encounter in Spacey’s bedroom.

Spacey, now 63, denies Rapp’s allegation. Rapp, 50, sued Spacey two years ago.

Each actors were seated within the courtroom Thursday. Rapp, wearing a navy suit and a dark patterned tie, appeared solemn. Spacey, wearing a gray suit and a pale blue tie, appeared relaxed. He laughed on the judge’s jokes, smiled at prospective jurors and sometimes whispered together with his lawyers.

Rapp was visibly emotional during a break before opening arguments began. He might be seen crying and dabbing his eyes with a crumpled tissue.

The jury of six men and 6 women was sworn in only after 12:30 p.m., kicking off a trial that comes nearly five years after Rapp first publicly detailed his allegations against Spacey. The allegations were amongst several that brought an abrupt end to Spacey’s Oscar-winning profession.

Saghir told jurors that Spacey invited Rapp to a celebration at his small apartment after they met while performing in separate Broadway shows. Rapp didn’t recognize any of the guests and “felt uncomfortable,” so he went right into a bedroom to look at television.

Spacey later entered the room, seemingly inebriated and “swaying,” Saghir said. Rapp alleges Spacey grabbed his buttocks, lifted him onto a bed and briefly lay down on him before Rapp “wriggled out,” in keeping with court documents.

“He was attempting to seduce me,” Rapp told BuzzFeed News in an article published in October 2017. “I don’t know if I’d have used that language. But I used to be aware that he was attempting to get with me sexually.”

In a tweet the day after the BuzzFeed article was published, Spacey said he didn’t remember the incident. He wrote partially: “If I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.”

Jennifer Keller, one in all Spacey’s lawyers, forcefully rebutted Rapp’s claims in her opening arguments. She characterised 14-year-old Rapp as a “troubled young man” who concocted a fictional narrative about his alleged encounter with Spacey.

“Thirty-six years ago … Mr. Rapp created a story,” Keller said, adding that Rapp has been “telling this story for sympathy, for attention and to boost his profile.”

Keller portrayed Rapp as “bitter” and full of “simmering resentment” because he “never became a global star” like Spacey, who won acting Oscars for “The Usual Suspects” and “American Beauty.”

“We’re very confident that when you have heard each side, you may be convinced this alleged assault never happened,” Keller told jurors.

She later tried to undermine Rapp’s claims, telling jurors that Spacey’s studio apartment in 1986 didn’t have a bedroom.

She also implied that Rapp could have based his claims partly on plot details from “Precious Sons,” a play that gave him his first big role on Broadway.

In that play, Keller said, a personality played by Ed Harris drunkenly mistakes his son (Rapp) for his wife, picks him up after which lies on top of him.

Rapp’s attorney, meanwhile, described the small print of the alleged encounter in visceral terms. Saghir told jurors that Rapp could feel the “full weight” of Spacey’s body, essentially trapping the teenager on the bed.

Saghir went on to say the alleged incident caused lasting psychological harm for Rapp, saying partially: “Each time he hears Kevin Spacey’s name, he’s back in that apartment in 1986.”

Rapp was one in all the primary people to level sexual misconduct allegations against Spacey within the early days of the #MeToo movement.

Spacey’s trial is going down in downtown Manhattan in U.S. District Court for Southern Recent York. The presiding judge, Lewis A. Kaplan, has overseen high-profile cases involving Guantanamo Bay detainees and Recent York City mobsters.

Rapp stars within the Paramount+ series “Star Trek: Discovery.” He can also be known for appearing in the unique Broadway production of “Rent” (and a subsequent movie adaptation) and acting within the film “Dazed and Confused.”

The trial will center on Rapp’s claims of battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Kaplan dismissed a sexual assault claim because Rapp brought it too late, in keeping with a court document filed in June.

Rapp is looking for compensatory and punitive damages.

Spacey’s legal woes extend beyond the Recent York trial.

In the UK, he faces charges of sexually assaulting three men a decade or more ago. He pleaded not guilty in July at a hearing at London’s Central Criminal Court.

He is predicted to go on trial within the U.K. starting June 6, in keeping with The Associated Press.

Individually, a Los Angeles judge ruled in August that Spacey and his firms must pay the producers behind Netflix’s “House of Cards” nearly $31 million due to losses incurred after he was fired for alleged sexual harassment of crew members, in keeping with court documents.

Spacey, who starred on “House of Cards” because the fictional President Frank Underwood, denies the harassment allegations.