Robin on Spacey... I don't want to talk about Kevin at all!

...but fortunately there is plenty the House of Cards star will talk about ahead of her return to TV in new series The Girlfriend coming to Amazon Prime this year

- By Simon Button

PUSH Robin Wright on a topic she’s not keen to discuss and she’ll push right back. Asked, for instance, about her former House of Cards co-star, she shuts the subject down with a polite but firm: “Oh, I don’t want to talk about Kevin at all.”

Kevin Spacey resurfaced at the Cannes Film Festival last month, nearly two years after he was found not guilty of sexually assaulting four men.

So has the actor been un-cancelled after all those #MeToo allegations against him?

Well, Francis Urquhart’s catchphrase from the original British House Of Cards was “You might very well think that, I couldn’t possibly comment”.

And in a similar vein, Wright, who played First Lady Claire to Spacey’s US President Frank Underwood in the Netflix reboot, also won’t be drawn.

But unlike frosty Claire, she smiles as if to say “Nice try!” and silently draws a line under the subject.

The pay parity she fought for in 2016, four seasons in? That’s another story — and one she’s more than happy to talk about.

“When I said, ‘I just think it’s only fair because we're doing the same amount of work and my character became as popular as his’, they said, ‘We can’t pay you the same as an actor so we're going to divvy it up to make it equal’.”

Wright reveals that Netflix bosses told her they’d have to make her an executive producer and a director, then they'd give her three pay cheques to put her on the same rate as Spacey.

With a resigned shrug she elaborates: “I said, ‘But why can’t you pay me the same as an actor?’ and they said, ‘Because you didn’t win an Academy Award.”

By that point she'd received a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Frank’s steely right-hand woman and had been nominated for four Primetime Emmys.