Rupert Everett has admitted that wild sex in his youth was “fraught with danger” amid the AIDS epidemic.
The actor, 65, spoke in a candid new interview about his sexual awakening in London which, despite the dangers, he said he still found “exciting”.
Rupert, who is now happily married to her husband Henrique, a Brazilian accountant, also spoke about dating women in his youth as it was more acceptable at the time.
He dated the likes of Bianca Jagger, Susan Sarandon, Paula Yates and Béatrice Dalle “with varying degrees of success” but always knew he was gay.
He told about his sexual life The times: ‘I was stupid. I really can’t understand it and I don’t admire it… I thought sex was my release from a middle-class military environment, but it was full of dangers, not just AIDS.
Rupert Everett has admitted that wild sex in his youth was “fraught with danger” amid the AIDS epidemic
The actor, 65, spoke in a candid new interview about his sexual awakening in London which, despite the dangers, he said he still found “exciting” (seen in 1987).
‘I was walking on razor blades without knowing it. I can’t really identify with myself when I was young anymore.’
However, he added: “It was really fun and exciting. I liked gay sex so much that I didn’t care who I had it with.
‘I wasn’t one of those people who only wanted to meet pretty people. I wanted to meet someone. It felt so new and fresh and rebellious.”
He added that at the time it was not yet widely acceptable to be gay and that in terms of any potential physical or verbal abuse he might suffer, “I had to be prepared for anything.”
Earlier this year it was revealed that she had married Henrique.
He had previously dismissed the institution of marriage and was even more scathing about gay marriage, deriding it as “a waste of time” and “beyond tragic.”
A friend told the Daily Mail’s Richard Eden in June: “They got married recently.
‘They are both wearing rings and are clearly very happy. Henrique is absolutely charming. He’s pretty calm and happy to let Rupert take center stage.
Rupert, who is now happily married to her husband Henrique, a Brazilian accountant, also spoke of dating women in his youth as it was more acceptable at the time.
He told The Times: ‘I was stupid. I really can’t understand it and I don’t admire it… I thought sex was my release from a middle-class military environment, but it was fraught with danger, not just AIDS.
Rupert is seen here with Henrique, a Brazilian accountant whom he married earlier this year.
In the past he has spoken with characteristic enthusiasm about marriage and why, in his words, “it’s not my idea of heaven.”
Everything about friends’ weddings, he explained in 2020, he found “repellent”, and going to stag parties in the early 1980s was “one of the scariest things” he had ever experienced.
Sticking to her theme, she summarized wedding dresses as “awful,” wedding cakes as “awful,” and lamented that “the whole world is breaking up” two years after their wedding day.
“I think turning it into a legal contract is very, very damaging to a relationship,” reflected Everett, who, in her wild youth, became entangled with John Hervey, later the 7th Marquess of Bristol, who died of AIDS at 44. after having wasted £. 35 million in drugs, rent boys and other entertainment.
“A relationship has to breathe and live and change and become something different every day,” Everett (left) added. But he admitted that his perspective had changed.
Declaring her intention to be with Henrique “forever” (they live with Everett’s mother and her Labrador, Pluto, in Wiltshire), she said she envisioned a sober, uncomplicated wedding.
“It won’t be George Clooney on a motor ski going down the Grand Canal in Venice,” he explained. “It’s going to be very quiet.”
In recent weeks the star has been promoting her new book, The American No, a collection of Hollywood-inspired short stories.
In March this year, Rupert said that if he had grown up today, he would have been “encouraged” to transition and would now “be a woman.”
The actor said that as a child he was a “big crossdresser” and believed he “definitely would have transitioned” if he had been born in a younger generation.
However, the actor said that he would not have wanted to be a woman because he loves “being a gay man.”
Everett told the Rosebud podcast: “I was a very shy, quiet kid. I loved sitting in the closets.
“I was a great transvestite, I would be a woman if this were today because I stole one of my mother’s discarded skirts and wore it and pretended I was Julie Andrews’ daughter.
“This was after I had seen Sound of Music and Mary Poppins, and that was really one of the big changes in my life.”
The My Best Friend’s Wedding actor admitted when he was five years old that he loved to “play house in drag.”
He continued: ‘I would put on the wig, put on the robe, go out the back door and get to the front door, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests.
And I had one of their bags and the first time they were like, “Oh, hi, what’s your name?”
“And I came in and sat in the living room for a second and then after about five minutes they said, ‘Okay, honey, it’s time to go to bed.’
“I would go up the stairs, and as soon as I was in bed, and as soon as they came down, I would jump up again, put on something else, go around the back, go to the front door, ring the bell and do it all the way new.
Everett as Miss Fritton on the set of St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold with Sarah Harding and Talulah Riley.
Everett said that when he was older and moved to London, he was having a “fantastic time.”
She added: “I went to drama school with diamond earrings, I mean, I definitely would have transitioned if it was now.”
“I think they would have encouraged me to do it now and I probably would have done it.”
Despite this, Everett admitted that she “didn’t” want to be a woman.
“No, I like being a man, I love being a gay man.”
