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Friday 9 January 2009

Rupert Everett:defying respectability

‘Being famous has become rather common’

Rupert Everett tells Tim Walker that there is nothing wrong with being a bimbo, that political correctness has been ‘a disaster for everyone’ and that gay adoption is wrong

When, just after he came out, a regional television reporter asked him how he saw himself as an old man, he had replied that he imagined he would become ‘the terror of the gentleman’s lavatory at Brighton Station’. These days he hopes he can just go on working for as long as he can. His work has perhaps been the greatest and most enduring love affair of his life.

He is currently writing a screenplay about the final days of Oscar Wilde and has himself in mind for the part. He would like, too, to do a remake of Travels with My Aunt, playing Henry Pulling. He also has, of course, the new St Trinian’s film, another of his ideas, in which he plays the headmistress. It will be released just before Christmas.

I wonder if, instead of the gents at Brighton Station, he will end up becoming rather respectable, possibly propping up the bar at the Garrick with a lot of other old actors. ‘Oh God, I do hope I never become respectable,’ he says. ‘And I can’t imagine anything worse than being stuck with a lot of old actors. They are always excruciatingly boring.’

Tim Walker is the theatre critic and diary editor of the Sunday Telegraph.

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