Rupert Everett looks back on his early career – and not exactly with fond nostalgia for the gym.
THE My best friend’s wedding The star says years of ignoring good workout habits have left him dealing with long-term physical consequences, and he doesn’t sugarcoat it.
“I ruined myself,” he said The guardian. “Now I’m almost paralyzed. I could never be bothered to do all those things, like stretching, that were necessary for lifting weights, because your tendons get tighter and tighter. It’s so boring. I didn’t do any of that.”
He added bluntly: “So now my demise will be musculoskeletal, I think. »
Everett, who broke out in the 1980s with Another country before becoming a global name in films like My best friend’s weddingsaid that even his first image wasn’t entirely real. Before fame fully manifested itself, he relied on body tricks behind the scenes.
“I met these two queens at Tufnell Park who were making bodysuits, and they made me a fake bottom, fake calves, fake shoulders, fake everything,” he said, adding that he wore them in “everything” from the start.
He even admitted that he would show up to the fittings already wearing them: “I would go to the costume fittings with all my stuff.”
His thoughts come amid a broader Hollywood conversation about body pressure and unrealistic expectations — a topic that stars like Robert Pattinson have also spoken out about in recent years following criticism of superhero physiques.
For Everett, though the message is simpler: Skipping the boring basics may feel good in your 20s… but your body remembers it all.
