Rupert Everett said he’s suffering serious consequences from his pursuit to achieve his heartthrob physique.
The actor, 67, had a string of popular box office hits in the ’90s, most notably starring as Julia Roberts’ gay bestie in 1997’s “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” but he said the buff build he worked hard to get has cost him.
“I ruined myself,” he told the Guardian in an interview published Monday. “Now I’m almost crippled as a result.”
“I could never be bothered to do all those things, like stretching, which were necessary for lifting weights, because your tendons get tighter and tighter,” he continued. “So boring. I didn’t do any of that. So now my demise will be musculoskeletal, I think.”
Everett recalled his movie star popularity, noting, “I was wonderful-looking at one point. I had muscles. Everything.”
“It was quite short-lived,” he added. “I call it my Hollywood year.”
Everett admitted to feeling insecure despite his good looks — even at the peak of his popularity.
“Even work was about cruising, really. Trying to be attractive,” he recalled. “Which obviously came from the feeling of not being attractive enough.”
“My vanity for me wasn’t about ‘mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?’. Vanity is often a feeling of deep insecurity rather than feeling how fabulous I am,” Everett added.
He no longer hits the gym these days, and shared with the outlet that his only form of exercise is walking his Labrador. He’s also settled down from his days partying and doing drugs.
He married his husband Henrique, a Brazilian accountant, in 2024.
“I always thought when I was still clubbing and hanging out that I’d be one of those 75-year-olds in a tie-dye T-shirt at raves,” he mused, noting that he’s now not even “remotely interested.”
“Well, I’m hardly interested in anything any more,” he added. “I’m interested in dust particles and things like that. I could quite happily sit just watching spring.”
