Rupert Everett says his efforts to achieve an exciting figure have had a serious impact on him.
The actor, 67, had a string of hits in the ’90s, most famously starring as Julia Roberts’ gay best friend in 1997’s My Best Friend’s Wedding, but said his hard-earned physique came at a price.
“I ruined myself,” he said in an interview with the Guardian published on Monday. “As a result, I am now almost crippled.”
“The tendons in the muscles get tighter and tighter, so things like the stretching required for weightlifting weren’t bothersome at all,” he continued. “It’s very boring. I didn’t do any of that, so I think my death will be from a musculoskeletal disease.”
Everett recalled his popularity as a movie star, saying, “At one point I looked great. I had muscles and everything.”
“It was very short-lived,” he added. “I call this year the Hollywood year.”
Even at the height of her popularity, Everett admitted that despite her good looks, she felt insecure.
“Even my job was really about cruising. I was trying to be glamorous,” he recalled. “It obviously came from a feeling of not being attractive enough.”
“Vanity for me was never about, ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most beautiful?’ Vanity is often a deep feeling of insecurity rather than a feeling of how great you are,” Everett added.
He revealed to the media that he doesn’t go to the gym these days and the only way he gets exercise is by walking his Labrador. He has also sobered up from his days of partying and doing drugs.
He married his husband Enrique, a Brazilian accountant, in 2024.
“When I was still going to clubs and hanging out, I always thought I’d be one of those 75-year-olds wearing a tie-dye T-shirt at a rave,” he muses, adding that he now has “very little interest in it.”
“Well, I’m not interested in anything anymore,” he added. “I’m interested in dust particles and things like that. Just looking at spring makes me very happy.”
