Rupert Everett looks back on his early career – and not exactly with fond nostalgia for the fitness field.
The My best friend’s wedding star says years of ignoring proper exercise habits have left him with long-term physical consequences, and he’s not sugarcoating it.
“I destroyed myself,” he shared The Guardian. “Now I’m almost crippled as a result. I could never be bothered to do all the things like stretching that were necessary to lift weights because your tendons get tighter and tighter. So boring. I didn’t do any of that.”
He added bluntly, “So now my death will be musculoskeletal, I guess.”
Everett, which broke out in the 1980s with Another country before becoming a global name in films like My best friend’s weddingsays that even his early image was not entirely genuine. Before fame fully kicked in, he relied on body tricks behind the scenes.
“I met these two queens at Tufnell Park who made bodysuits and they made me a fake bottom, fake calves, fake shoulders, fake everything,” he said, adding that he wore them in “everything” early on.
He even admitted that he would show up to fittings that already had them on: “I would walk into fittings for the costumes with all my stuff on.”
His reflections land in the middle of a wider Hollywood conversation about body pressure and unrealistic expectations – something 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 might look fine in your twenties… but your body remembers everything.
