He fell out with Madonna, his former friend, which was all anyone ever talked about when his name came up. Not that he needs to, to convince me that he's a serious man; I know he is.I do believe that he feels old. Now the straights have become cruisers, and the homosexuals are all getting married and having kids. It's another thing that's tragic and lovely about Wilde, for me. He is not celibate; in fact, he's happily settled with a long-term boyfriend. I can't understand it about myself, how I managed to fail to notice certain blindingly obvious facts, like that someone's paid 50 quid to go to the theatre. he insists, waving happily at the maître d'.
He signed up, inexplicably, for He was the first to invite others to see him as trivial. He's only 53 and, from a close-up look at his face, I'd guess that parts of him are getting younger all the time.There was a time when Rupert Everett was 25 and I was 11.
That happened to me in the last two years: a major ageing. Whether it's the memory cells throwing them up occasionally or whether it's a parallel universe, relationships go on.
Stephen Fry brought his towering intelligence and wit to Oscar Wilde, but Everett brings both of those along with his own bruised glamour and a jolt of bitter darkness as though he's possessed. What a pinko. Keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. Victoria Coren, a lifelong fan, joins him for dinner to talk about his excoriating memoirs, his portrayal of Oscar Wilde and his urge to be a serious manRupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm most a fan of Ed Miliband, if any politicians, but they're all a doomed race. He agrees that they resemble "the gods" in "They play into the hands of Ukip, because there's so little difference between them, but they're constantly bickering anyway. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/apr/21/rupert-everett-sex-is-over Unbeknown to me, it is Nude Sunday. "That's not much of an issue to me," says Rupert Everett.
"It feels awfully strange to be sitting in a restaurant with When it actually happens, I will feel even odder – assuming I outlive him. It was a real moment for me. It was amazing doing the play on the night of the Have we really come so far, though? Although I do hate the way London is changing into a sort of Monégasque tax haven, full of Chinese oligarchs' manicurists. "That was all years ago," he says. Photo Credits: Netflix; Pop TV; Robert Viglasky, Hartswood Films; Fred Hayes/Disney+, Fox, PopTV; Bettina Strauss/Netflix; Nicole Rivelli/Amazon, Netflix, Frank Masi/Apple, Disney, Jasper Savage/Hulu; Diyah Pera/CW On the other hand, as an entertainer, that's fine…"He preferred London, and all the big cities of the world, when they were "rough and ready… or just rougher. If any one of them was a real protagonist, it wouldn't work at all. "The notion of working thrills me for itself now, whereas before I was thrilled by the glorification of me, however I could get it. He seems terribly Catholic, in the sense of Protestantism being a rather polite religion where you're wearing a hat and eating a wafer, while Catholicism invites you to imbibe Christ's body and its priests wash the feet of the homeless.There is a yearning to his voice, both in the book and in our conversation, when he talks of inner-city churches, yet he also tells me: "I am not a Catholic. 'I love him for his faults and his snobbery': Rupert Everett on Oscar Wilde who he played, above, in The Judas Kiss with Freddie Fox as Bosie.
I was brought up a Catholic, but I think Catholicism is an abomination of the Christian message. He was teasy and self-deprecating, waspish and gossipy, obligingly bitchy about celebrities when he was being interviewed. That never used to cross my mind. "I don't concentrate on it much any more. Photograph: Dave Allocca/AP It was the opening of my funeral season.
"I do have a really strong notion of Wilde," he says. "Nevertheless, Rupert claims that he is not much annoyed by anything.
He allowed himself to be camp, funny, washed-up Rupert.But here he is now: author of a darker, cleverer volume of memoirs that was praised by critics in hardback and is coming out in paperback on the eve of the Olivier Awards, where he is nominated for a performance of unforgettable skill and subtlety.That, I think, is why work is exciting him.
In Hollywood, everyone wears make-up and nobody's gay.
Rupert Everett.
"With sex off the agenda as a motivating force, he has suddenly noticed everyone else in the room. "No, I loved his funeral.
It was all down to sex. "On the one hand it's very liberal, on the other very conservative.
he points out. "You see it in the street, people bumping into each other because we're losing our sensory skills, our depth-charge sounding mechanisms. His first film role, playing a gay character in 1984’s Another Country, made him a star, and he came out of the closet. "He knows, though.
A few years ago, that would have been unlikely.
I don't think it's anything to do with getting old.
He fell out with Madonna, his former friend, which was all anyone ever talked about when his name came up. Not that he needs to, to convince me that he's a serious man; I know he is.I do believe that he feels old. Now the straights have become cruisers, and the homosexuals are all getting married and having kids. It's another thing that's tragic and lovely about Wilde, for me. He is not celibate; in fact, he's happily settled with a long-term boyfriend. I can't understand it about myself, how I managed to fail to notice certain blindingly obvious facts, like that someone's paid 50 quid to go to the theatre. he insists, waving happily at the maître d'.
He signed up, inexplicably, for He was the first to invite others to see him as trivial. He's only 53 and, from a close-up look at his face, I'd guess that parts of him are getting younger all the time.There was a time when Rupert Everett was 25 and I was 11.
That happened to me in the last two years: a major ageing. Whether it's the memory cells throwing them up occasionally or whether it's a parallel universe, relationships go on.
Stephen Fry brought his towering intelligence and wit to Oscar Wilde, but Everett brings both of those along with his own bruised glamour and a jolt of bitter darkness as though he's possessed. What a pinko. Keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. Victoria Coren, a lifelong fan, joins him for dinner to talk about his excoriating memoirs, his portrayal of Oscar Wilde and his urge to be a serious manRupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm most a fan of Ed Miliband, if any politicians, but they're all a doomed race. He agrees that they resemble "the gods" in "They play into the hands of Ukip, because there's so little difference between them, but they're constantly bickering anyway. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/apr/21/rupert-everett-sex-is-over Unbeknown to me, it is Nude Sunday. "That's not much of an issue to me," says Rupert Everett.
"It feels awfully strange to be sitting in a restaurant with When it actually happens, I will feel even odder – assuming I outlive him. It was a real moment for me. It was amazing doing the play on the night of the Have we really come so far, though? Although I do hate the way London is changing into a sort of Monégasque tax haven, full of Chinese oligarchs' manicurists. "That was all years ago," he says. Photo Credits: Netflix; Pop TV; Robert Viglasky, Hartswood Films; Fred Hayes/Disney+, Fox, PopTV; Bettina Strauss/Netflix; Nicole Rivelli/Amazon, Netflix, Frank Masi/Apple, Disney, Jasper Savage/Hulu; Diyah Pera/CW On the other hand, as an entertainer, that's fine…"He preferred London, and all the big cities of the world, when they were "rough and ready… or just rougher. If any one of them was a real protagonist, it wouldn't work at all. "The notion of working thrills me for itself now, whereas before I was thrilled by the glorification of me, however I could get it. He seems terribly Catholic, in the sense of Protestantism being a rather polite religion where you're wearing a hat and eating a wafer, while Catholicism invites you to imbibe Christ's body and its priests wash the feet of the homeless.There is a yearning to his voice, both in the book and in our conversation, when he talks of inner-city churches, yet he also tells me: "I am not a Catholic. 'I love him for his faults and his snobbery': Rupert Everett on Oscar Wilde who he played, above, in The Judas Kiss with Freddie Fox as Bosie.
I was brought up a Catholic, but I think Catholicism is an abomination of the Christian message. He was teasy and self-deprecating, waspish and gossipy, obligingly bitchy about celebrities when he was being interviewed. That never used to cross my mind. "I don't concentrate on it much any more. Photograph: Dave Allocca/AP It was the opening of my funeral season.
"I do have a really strong notion of Wilde," he says. "Nevertheless, Rupert claims that he is not much annoyed by anything.
He allowed himself to be camp, funny, washed-up Rupert.But here he is now: author of a darker, cleverer volume of memoirs that was praised by critics in hardback and is coming out in paperback on the eve of the Olivier Awards, where he is nominated for a performance of unforgettable skill and subtlety.That, I think, is why work is exciting him.
In Hollywood, everyone wears make-up and nobody's gay.
Rupert Everett.
"With sex off the agenda as a motivating force, he has suddenly noticed everyone else in the room. "No, I loved his funeral.
It was all down to sex. "On the one hand it's very liberal, on the other very conservative.
he points out. "You see it in the street, people bumping into each other because we're losing our sensory skills, our depth-charge sounding mechanisms. His first film role, playing a gay character in 1984’s Another Country, made him a star, and he came out of the closet. "He knows, though.
A few years ago, that would have been unlikely.
I don't think it's anything to do with getting old.
He fell out with Madonna, his former friend, which was all anyone ever talked about when his name came up. Not that he needs to, to convince me that he's a serious man; I know he is.I do believe that he feels old. Now the straights have become cruisers, and the homosexuals are all getting married and having kids. It's another thing that's tragic and lovely about Wilde, for me. He is not celibate; in fact, he's happily settled with a long-term boyfriend. I can't understand it about myself, how I managed to fail to notice certain blindingly obvious facts, like that someone's paid 50 quid to go to the theatre. he insists, waving happily at the maître d'.
He signed up, inexplicably, for He was the first to invite others to see him as trivial. He's only 53 and, from a close-up look at his face, I'd guess that parts of him are getting younger all the time.There was a time when Rupert Everett was 25 and I was 11.
That happened to me in the last two years: a major ageing. Whether it's the memory cells throwing them up occasionally or whether it's a parallel universe, relationships go on.
Stephen Fry brought his towering intelligence and wit to Oscar Wilde, but Everett brings both of those along with his own bruised glamour and a jolt of bitter darkness as though he's possessed. What a pinko. Keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. Victoria Coren, a lifelong fan, joins him for dinner to talk about his excoriating memoirs, his portrayal of Oscar Wilde and his urge to be a serious manRupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm most a fan of Ed Miliband, if any politicians, but they're all a doomed race. He agrees that they resemble "the gods" in "They play into the hands of Ukip, because there's so little difference between them, but they're constantly bickering anyway. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/apr/21/rupert-everett-sex-is-over Unbeknown to me, it is Nude Sunday. "That's not much of an issue to me," says Rupert Everett.
"It feels awfully strange to be sitting in a restaurant with When it actually happens, I will feel even odder – assuming I outlive him. It was a real moment for me. It was amazing doing the play on the night of the Have we really come so far, though? Although I do hate the way London is changing into a sort of Monégasque tax haven, full of Chinese oligarchs' manicurists. "That was all years ago," he says. Photo Credits: Netflix; Pop TV; Robert Viglasky, Hartswood Films; Fred Hayes/Disney+, Fox, PopTV; Bettina Strauss/Netflix; Nicole Rivelli/Amazon, Netflix, Frank Masi/Apple, Disney, Jasper Savage/Hulu; Diyah Pera/CW On the other hand, as an entertainer, that's fine…"He preferred London, and all the big cities of the world, when they were "rough and ready… or just rougher. If any one of them was a real protagonist, it wouldn't work at all. "The notion of working thrills me for itself now, whereas before I was thrilled by the glorification of me, however I could get it. He seems terribly Catholic, in the sense of Protestantism being a rather polite religion where you're wearing a hat and eating a wafer, while Catholicism invites you to imbibe Christ's body and its priests wash the feet of the homeless.There is a yearning to his voice, both in the book and in our conversation, when he talks of inner-city churches, yet he also tells me: "I am not a Catholic. 'I love him for his faults and his snobbery': Rupert Everett on Oscar Wilde who he played, above, in The Judas Kiss with Freddie Fox as Bosie.
I was brought up a Catholic, but I think Catholicism is an abomination of the Christian message. He was teasy and self-deprecating, waspish and gossipy, obligingly bitchy about celebrities when he was being interviewed. That never used to cross my mind. "I don't concentrate on it much any more. Photograph: Dave Allocca/AP It was the opening of my funeral season.
"I do have a really strong notion of Wilde," he says. "Nevertheless, Rupert claims that he is not much annoyed by anything.
He allowed himself to be camp, funny, washed-up Rupert.But here he is now: author of a darker, cleverer volume of memoirs that was praised by critics in hardback and is coming out in paperback on the eve of the Olivier Awards, where he is nominated for a performance of unforgettable skill and subtlety.That, I think, is why work is exciting him.
In Hollywood, everyone wears make-up and nobody's gay.
Rupert Everett.
"With sex off the agenda as a motivating force, he has suddenly noticed everyone else in the room. "No, I loved his funeral.
It was all down to sex. "On the one hand it's very liberal, on the other very conservative.
he points out. "You see it in the street, people bumping into each other because we're losing our sensory skills, our depth-charge sounding mechanisms. His first film role, playing a gay character in 1984’s Another Country, made him a star, and he came out of the closet. "He knows, though.
A few years ago, that would have been unlikely.
I don't think it's anything to do with getting old.
"They've become like homosexuals!" "His mind newly on these sensible, sober and seriously professional things, Rupert tells me he does not even worry about his looks.As Oscar Wilde, he gets a good laugh with the line: "My appearance is that of a pederast Anglican bishop who has been locked all night in a distillery."
He fell out with Madonna, his former friend, which was all anyone ever talked about when his name came up. Not that he needs to, to convince me that he's a serious man; I know he is.I do believe that he feels old. Now the straights have become cruisers, and the homosexuals are all getting married and having kids. It's another thing that's tragic and lovely about Wilde, for me. He is not celibate; in fact, he's happily settled with a long-term boyfriend. I can't understand it about myself, how I managed to fail to notice certain blindingly obvious facts, like that someone's paid 50 quid to go to the theatre. he insists, waving happily at the maître d'.
He signed up, inexplicably, for He was the first to invite others to see him as trivial. He's only 53 and, from a close-up look at his face, I'd guess that parts of him are getting younger all the time.There was a time when Rupert Everett was 25 and I was 11.
That happened to me in the last two years: a major ageing. Whether it's the memory cells throwing them up occasionally or whether it's a parallel universe, relationships go on.
Stephen Fry brought his towering intelligence and wit to Oscar Wilde, but Everett brings both of those along with his own bruised glamour and a jolt of bitter darkness as though he's possessed. What a pinko. Keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. Victoria Coren, a lifelong fan, joins him for dinner to talk about his excoriating memoirs, his portrayal of Oscar Wilde and his urge to be a serious manRupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm most a fan of Ed Miliband, if any politicians, but they're all a doomed race. He agrees that they resemble "the gods" in "They play into the hands of Ukip, because there's so little difference between them, but they're constantly bickering anyway. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/apr/21/rupert-everett-sex-is-over Unbeknown to me, it is Nude Sunday. "That's not much of an issue to me," says Rupert Everett.
"It feels awfully strange to be sitting in a restaurant with When it actually happens, I will feel even odder – assuming I outlive him. It was a real moment for me. It was amazing doing the play on the night of the Have we really come so far, though? Although I do hate the way London is changing into a sort of Monégasque tax haven, full of Chinese oligarchs' manicurists. "That was all years ago," he says. Photo Credits: Netflix; Pop TV; Robert Viglasky, Hartswood Films; Fred Hayes/Disney+, Fox, PopTV; Bettina Strauss/Netflix; Nicole Rivelli/Amazon, Netflix, Frank Masi/Apple, Disney, Jasper Savage/Hulu; Diyah Pera/CW On the other hand, as an entertainer, that's fine…"He preferred London, and all the big cities of the world, when they were "rough and ready… or just rougher. If any one of them was a real protagonist, it wouldn't work at all. "The notion of working thrills me for itself now, whereas before I was thrilled by the glorification of me, however I could get it. He seems terribly Catholic, in the sense of Protestantism being a rather polite religion where you're wearing a hat and eating a wafer, while Catholicism invites you to imbibe Christ's body and its priests wash the feet of the homeless.There is a yearning to his voice, both in the book and in our conversation, when he talks of inner-city churches, yet he also tells me: "I am not a Catholic. 'I love him for his faults and his snobbery': Rupert Everett on Oscar Wilde who he played, above, in The Judas Kiss with Freddie Fox as Bosie.
I was brought up a Catholic, but I think Catholicism is an abomination of the Christian message. He was teasy and self-deprecating, waspish and gossipy, obligingly bitchy about celebrities when he was being interviewed. That never used to cross my mind. "I don't concentrate on it much any more. Photograph: Dave Allocca/AP It was the opening of my funeral season.
"I do have a really strong notion of Wilde," he says. "Nevertheless, Rupert claims that he is not much annoyed by anything.
He allowed himself to be camp, funny, washed-up Rupert.But here he is now: author of a darker, cleverer volume of memoirs that was praised by critics in hardback and is coming out in paperback on the eve of the Olivier Awards, where he is nominated for a performance of unforgettable skill and subtlety.That, I think, is why work is exciting him.
In Hollywood, everyone wears make-up and nobody's gay.
Rupert Everett.
"With sex off the agenda as a motivating force, he has suddenly noticed everyone else in the room. "No, I loved his funeral.
It was all down to sex. "On the one hand it's very liberal, on the other very conservative.
he points out. "You see it in the street, people bumping into each other because we're losing our sensory skills, our depth-charge sounding mechanisms. His first film role, playing a gay character in 1984’s Another Country, made him a star, and he came out of the closet. "He knows, though.
A few years ago, that would have been unlikely.
I don't think it's anything to do with getting old.
