BEING GAY RUINED RUPERT EVERETT'S CAREER

Rupert Everett

Former Hollywood star Rupert Everett thinks his sexuality ruined his acting career. Rupert is insisting movie bosses stopped offering him leading roles after he announced he is homosexual. The actor won many lead roles in films throughout the 1980s, but his acting career slowed down after he revealed that he was gay in 1989. Everett is very adamant that the revelation put an end to his career as a movie star, leaving him to play roles as the ‘gay best friend’. Everett is also claiming he was turned down for the lead role in 2006’s Basic Instinct 2 because of his sexuality. And he is accusing Hollywood executives for being too scared to cast a gay man in a heterosexual leading role. He tells The New York Times Magazine, "I wanted to be a movie star. I had a difficult set of circumstances to deal with, particularly for a movie career. Being gay, really. It just doesn’t work." And Everett hopes that movie bosses will eventually be able to look past people’s sexual preferences when casting for films, adding, "As actors we don’t play gay, straight… we play human beings."
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