Rupert Everett, 67, admitted that the intense pressure to achieve a leading-man appearance in the 1990s led him to make extreme choices, and that today he regrets not having dedicated himself properly to physical exercise.
According to the actor, because he thought he was too thin, he first opted for padding. “I met two drag queens in London who made bodysuits, and they made me fake calves, fake shoulders, everything fake,” he said, adding that he even wore the fake body parts while acting, and no one noticed.
But to become genuinely more muscular, Everett began lifting weights to get a “sculpted” body for his roles and, as he himself recounts, ignored the necessary stretching, which caused his tendons to become stiffer over the years.
“I destroyed myself,” he told The Guardian. “Now I am almost disabled because of it. I never bothered to do all those things, like stretching, that were necessary for lifting weights, because the tendons get tighter and tighter. How boring. I did none of that. So I think now my end will be musculoskeletal.”
The actor, who can be seen in the series “Rivals”, playing Malise Gordon, is currently promoting his new work in the British drama “Madfabulous”, in which he stars as the loyal butler Gelert; the film opens in cinemas on June 5.
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