"Sex has passed me by. It's over! I've spent most of my adult life, since
the age of 10, thinking almost exclusively about sex, and getting it,
or recovering from it. But it's all smoke and mirrors to me now...
"Sex isn't really over. I'm just not motivated by it any more,
and I used to be motivated by it purely. I think that happens to a man;
it's part of a midlife crisis. But it's been quite nice, in a way,
because I do lots of other things instead. Since it stopped, that major
driving force, I've felt much calmer."
Rupert Everett interviewed in The Observer.
Even though he's an annoying posh gay, I have a begrudging respect for Rupert's ability to annoy even more annoying posh gaybores.
The outrage over him saying he thought gay marriage was "a waste of time" was totes hilair.
Though, disappointingly, he doesn't say anything very controversial here.
Showing posts with label The Judas kiss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Judas kiss. Show all posts
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Sunday, 6 January 2013
Rupert Everett: Stalking
“You were told [at school] that if you got a
hard-on, you should turn over and say a Hail Mary. You somehow make it
work for yourself, but it gives you lots of bubbles inside. I wanted to
tear everything down, and the way I found to do it was sex.” With whom?
“They didn’t necessarily have to be attractive. It depends how the
lights are hitting you and how the drinks are hitting you.” Was it, I
ask, self-hating? “Guilty, certainly,” he says. “My whole life was about
sex, really, in one sense or another.” Aids terrified him: there was
death everywhere in the 1980s, and the backlash was vicious. “People
were really turning against gays — they had been so popular in the
1970s. Being black was rather popular in the 1970s, too.” This is a
typical of Everett; just when you think he is sensitive and clever, he
says something so fashion-stupid, I want to thump him.
We then have an absurd conversation about Ian McKellen, which demonstrates his ambivalence about his early life. When he was young, in London, he stalked McKellen, which is fairly normal for teenagers who find their backgrounds uncomfortable or dreary. According to his memoir Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, he told a friend: “I am shagging Ian McKellen, I swear!” Since he is usually so talkative about his promiscuity, I ask him if it’s true. “No,” he says calmly. “I was friends with Ian McKellen.” But it’s in the book, I say, and I repeat the anecdote. “I did sleep with Ian McKellen,” he says eventually, and I feel unkind that I even asked. “I loved stalking people,” he says. “Now it’s illegal, such a shame. Such fun.”
Rupert Everett profiled in The Sunday Times.
Mr Everett has won much praise for his portrayal of Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss.
It transfers to the West End on Wednesday.
As it stars Rupert my chances of seeing it are less than zero.
Update: Rupert The Bore was also on The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, sitting next to one David Cameron, who was enthusing about gay marriage.
Rupert said bluntly; "I can't stand marriage..."
Thus making "Dave" look rather silly.
We then have an absurd conversation about Ian McKellen, which demonstrates his ambivalence about his early life. When he was young, in London, he stalked McKellen, which is fairly normal for teenagers who find their backgrounds uncomfortable or dreary. According to his memoir Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, he told a friend: “I am shagging Ian McKellen, I swear!” Since he is usually so talkative about his promiscuity, I ask him if it’s true. “No,” he says calmly. “I was friends with Ian McKellen.” But it’s in the book, I say, and I repeat the anecdote. “I did sleep with Ian McKellen,” he says eventually, and I feel unkind that I even asked. “I loved stalking people,” he says. “Now it’s illegal, such a shame. Such fun.”
Rupert Everett profiled in The Sunday Times.
Mr Everett has won much praise for his portrayal of Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss.
It transfers to the West End on Wednesday.
As it stars Rupert my chances of seeing it are less than zero.
Update: Rupert The Bore was also on The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, sitting next to one David Cameron, who was enthusing about gay marriage.
Rupert said bluntly; "I can't stand marriage..."
Thus making "Dave" look rather silly.
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