Rivals star, Rupert Everett, has opened up about his body image, admitting that he used to wear a bodysuit with an enhanced bottom to give him ‘more of a physique’
Rupert Everett has admitted he went to extreme lengths to disguise his physical insecurities. The Rivals star, 67, boasts a whole host of films on his CV after shooting to fame in flicks, including My Best Friend’s Wedding and An Ideal Husband.
The award-winning thespian was known for his leading man good looks and statuesque height, however Rupert has now revealed that he suffered from such a debilitating body image, he used to wear a bodysuit with an enhanced bum to bulk up his frame.
In a new interview, the actor admits feeling awkward aged 15 when he was just 5 feet tall. He later shot up to six feet four, however that brought its own set of anxieties, with Rupert claiming he looked “skeletal”. He claimed: “My a**e was like two bones and a hole. And my legs were skeletal.”
Plagued with concerns over his image, he started wearing a bodysuit to give him more of a muscular physique. Revealing he got some drag queens to provide him with padding, he told the Guardian: “I met these two queens in Tufnell Park who made bodysuits, and they made me a false bottom, false calves, false shoulders, false everything.”
Asked if he wore them while acting on screen, he replied: “Yes, in everything.”
He claimed, however, that directors had no idea about his secret body suit, explaining that he would “go into the fittings for the costumes with all my things on”.
Rupert, who is now starring as Malise Gordon – the husband of Rupert Campbell-Black’s ex-wife – in the current series of Rivals, says he can’t be bothered to focus on exercise now.
Even though he knows it may help him live longer, he enjoys walking his dog, and that’s as far as it goes, exercise-wise.
When he was once the toast of Tinseltown, the star worked out a lot, but admitted he didn’t do it properly. Claiming he is now “almost crippled”, he said: “I ruined myself. Now I’m almost crippled as a result.
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.”
Last year, the actor revealed he’d been volunteering at his local pub in a bid to save the boozer from closure.
The Shakespeare in Love star was one of 30 hopeful volunteers at The Swan in Enford after the 350-year-old Wiltshire establishment was threatened with closure.
Speaking to Good Morning Britain, he revealed: “I’m part of a big rota. Our pub closed down a few months ago, and it’s had a chequered existence for the last 20 years, like many pubs, and it’s in a rural village, and I think the people in the village realised that without it, there’s no possibility of communication, and so the villagers wanted to keep the pub going.”
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