Interview - RUPERT EVERETT on playing Oscar Wilde in THE HAPPY PRINCE plus gay actors in Hollywood
44Actor & Director Rupert Everett talks about playing Irish writer Oscar Wilde on the big screen in his new movie THE HAPPY PRINCE.
Rupert first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as an openly homosexual pupil at an English public school in the 1930s.
Rupert was nominated for two Golden Globe awards for his roles in My Best Friend's Wedding & An Ideal Husband.
Everett has performed in many other prominent films, including The Madness of King George (1994), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Inspector Gadget (1999), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999), The Next Best Thing (2000), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Stardust (2007) and the Shrek sequels. He co-starred with Eva Green in Tim Burton's film Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016). Coming up he will appear in Swords and Sceptres.
TV Appearances include 50 Shades of Gay, Boston Legal, Who Do You Think You Are? and more
He has written 4 books including
1992: Hello, Darling, Are You Working? (novel)
1995: The Hairdressers of St. Tropez (novel)
2006: Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins (memoir)
2012: Vanished Years (memoir)
Everett is a patron of the British Monarchist Society and Foundation. Rupert is an openly gay actor in Hollywood, an outspoken critic towards the introduction of same-sex marriage, stating: '"I loathe heterosexual weddings. The wedding cake, the party, the champagne, the inevitable divorce two years later. It's just a waste of time in the heterosexual world, and in the homosexual world I find it personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this institution that is so clearly a disaster."