premise: James Spader starred in a film.
hypothesis: Bad Influence is a 1990 American thriller film directed by Curtis Hanson starring Rob Lowe and James Spader . James Spader . He is best known for portraying eccentric characters in films such as the drama Sex , Lies , and Videotape ( 1989 ) , the action science fiction film Stargate ( 1994 ) , the controversial psychological thriller Crash ( 1996 ) , the erotic romance Secretary ( 2002 ) , and the blockbuster superhero film Avengers : Age of Ultron ( 2015 ) . He currently stars as high-profile criminal-turned-FBI-informant Raymond `` Red '' Reddington in the NBC crime drama The Blacklist , for which he has earned two Golden Globe Award nominations . Supernova is a 2000 Swiss-American science fiction horror film written by David C. Wilson , William Malone and Daniel Chuba and directed by Walter Hill , credited as `` Thomas Lee . '' The cast featured James Spader , Angela Bassett , Robert Forster , Lou Diamond Phillips , Peter Facinelli , Robin Tunney , and Wilson Cruz .