“I’ve been able to use being gay as a gimmick,” Rupert Everett told Attitude in 1999, as the then 39-year-old’s career peaked off the back of 1997’s My Best Friend’s Wedding. (The fabulous disaster that was costarring with Madonna in 2000’s The Next Best Thing was just around the corner, of course.) “Luckily, I’ve also overcome the challenge of playing straight roles,” added a chipper Rupe; his luck soon ran out, however, with the star later opining that coming out harmed his career. “There’s only a certain amount of mileage you can make, as a young pretender, as a leading man, as a homosexual,” he told The Daily Telegraph in 2014. No matter: in 2018, he self-actualised a Rupe-aissance by writing, directing and starring in Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy…
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Attitude (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2022