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Rupert Everett is feeling the toll of his success.
The actor, who notably costarred with Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney in 1997’s My Best Friend’s Wedding, got candid about the current state of his health after spending years pursuing a “wonderful-looking” muscular build in the ‘90s.
“I ruined myself. Now I’m almost crippled as a result,” Rupert told The Guardian in a June 1 feature. “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.”
The 67-year-old elaborated that the pressure to make himself look more like the conventional leading man was due to the naturally slim build he had as a teenager. As Rupert put it, “My arse was like two bones and a hole. And my legs were skeletal.”
Looking back, the An Ideal Husband alum acknowledged his transformation for his “quite short-lived” career in Hollywood sent him down an unsatisfying path.
“I was just obsessed about getting on rather than doing my job,” Rupert confessed. “I always felt I was missing out on some mythical life that was taking place somewhere else. That was my problem.”
And despite working alongside legendary actors such as Sophia Loren in 1994’s Ready To Wear as well as Michelle Pfeiffer and Stanley Tucci in 1999’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he didn’t feel fulfilled.
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“Even work was about cruising, trying to be attractive,” Rupert said. “Which obviously came from the feeling of not being attractive enough.”
“My vanity for me wasn’t about ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?’” he added. “Vanity is often a feeling of deep insecurity rather than feeling how fabulous I am.”
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