Bitter Self-Hater Rupert Everett Is At It Again…

“There’s a whole side of my business now which clicks its fingers for world peace and equal rights. Movie stars and directors and studios spend a lot of money promoting human rights and being charitable in Africa but, actually, in their own backyard, they really don’t accept that any of these things is happening. So people mostly said to me: ‘Oh, but you’ve been so difficult and you’ve blown everything for yourself, you’ve sabotaged your own career.’ To a certain extent, it’s true, but to a certain extent, it isn’t. There’s only a certain amount of mileage you can make, as a young pretender, as a leading man, as a homosexual. There just isn’t very far you can go.”

So true, Rupert! Just like what happened to Ian McKellan or Neil Patrick Harris or Matt Bomer or Jim Parsons or Alan Cumming or Zachary Quinto or Stephen Fry! 

Worse, Everett brings up AIDS in an extraordinarily narcissistic and problematic way:

“AIDS in the Eighties was a very, very scary thing. There were people walking around with the disease that looked like the undead. Terrifying. I spent the first six years of my career thinking that any minute now I would probably come out with it. The first 10 years of my career were conducted with this interior hysteria of terror. In one sense, it made everything unpleasant. With every lens, I was wondering if they were going in too tight on what I might be hiding. I was very lucky, considering my very sluttish behaviour, never to get HIV. But I always thought I had it. I can look at films I’ve been in and see in my face this sheer terror.”

Alright, so a) 10 years?? why didn’t you just get fucking tested?; b) for a self-proclaimed “slut,” you sure are offering some slut shame and general stigma toward promiscuous behaviour; and c) “the undead”? so much respect you have for those not so “lucky” as you…

Once again, you have confirmed to all of us that being an asshole likely derailed your career, not so much the homophobia…