Rupert Everett put in a lot of work trying to attain a perfect physique early in his career, but now he’s suffering the consequences.
The My Best Friend’s Wedding star recently opened up to The Guardian about how he’s now “almost crippled” after not working out properly when he was younger.
“I ruined myself,” he said. “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. So boring. I didn’t do any of that.
“So now my demise will be musculoskeletal, I think,” he added.
Everett broke out in the early 1980s with his role in Another Country, starring alongside Colin Firth, and Dance with a Stranger with Miranda Richardson. He later garnered more attention playing Julia Roberts’ gay best friend in 1997’s My Best Friend’s Wedding, and then with 1999’s An Ideal Husband and 2000’s The Next Best Thing, opposite Madonna.
Before the Rivals actor even started working on his buff body, he revealed that he wore bodysuits on set to give the appearance of a better physique.
“I met these two queens in Tufnell Park who made bodysuits, and they made me a false bottom, false calves, false shoulders, false everything,” Everett said, admitting he wore them in “everything” early in his acting career.
However, he claimed the directors weren’t aware, as he’d “go into the fittings for the costumes with all my things on.”
Men and women in Hollywood have long felt pressure when it came to their physical appearance. Twilight star Robert Pattinson even recently clapped back at critics of his superhero physique in 2022’s The Batman, saying, “I worked out every fucking day. Even after that, I still look like I didn’t work out. I worked out twice a day at, like, three o’clock in the morning.”
