Rupert Everett

  • The Happy Prince: Rupert Everett’s glorious account of Oscar Wilde’s last years

    The Happy Prince: Rupert Everett’s glorious account of Oscar Wilde’s last years

      Rupert Everett is certainly no stranger in his career to Oscar Wilde having been in two film adaptations of his plays, An Ideal Husband & The Importance of Being Earnest and more recently he was in the revival of David Hare’s play The Judas Kiss.  So who better to write, direct and star in a…

  • Rupert Everett’s new biopic on gay icon Oscar Wilde premieres at Berlinale

    Rupert Everett’s new biopic on gay icon Oscar Wilde premieres at Berlinale

    Posted with permission from AFP Gay cinema pioneer Rupert Everett said his new biopic about legendary literary dandy Oscar Wilde captures him as a “Christ-like” figure who sacrificed himself for the future global LBGTQ rights movement.  Everett penned, directed and starred in his years-long passion project about the flamboyant 19th-century Irish writer, “The Happy Prince“,…

  • Rupert Everett and 50 Shades of Gay

    Rupert Everett and 50 Shades of Gay

    Listening to the dulcet upper-class voice of openly gay Brit actor Rupert Everett talk about the seedier side of gay life seems a tad surreal, even though if you have read his own colorful memoirs you will know that this posh-sounding actor has had more than his fair share of rather scandalous living. He is…

  • 50 Shades of Gay

    50 Shades of Gay

    The celebrations in the UK to mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalization of homosexuality continue to grow, and now Channel 4 is about to broadcast a whole series of TV documentaries under the  50 Shades of Gay  banner The first one will be fronted by actor/writer Rupert Everett who will be giving his…