Rupert Everett's conversation and prose is as seductive as his stage presence. And the show goes on, with a new book, film and role in Emily in Paris. Delilah Khomo catches up with the greatest wit of our time Four kings, three princes, two poets, and a Queen Camilla inspired drag headmistress.
Rupert Everett has the range. The greatest wit in Britain has forged a career in the devilish, the charming, and the disarmingly melancholic. From his breakthrough role as a heartbreaking schoolboy in to his most recent turn as a lascivious interior designer in , Everett has mastered , , and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
He’s shared the screen with the likes of Cate Blanchett, Colin Firth, Julia Roberts, and Derek Jacobi; wined and dined supermodels, rockstars, young ingenues and old queens; and in ’s October issue, he dishes the dirt with Delilah Khomo on a career that constitutes the ultimate succès du scandal. Ever the iconoclast, this rebel in satin has long been an outspoken advocate for the causes that matter most to him, be they increased rights for sex workers or the ‘grotesqueries’ of heterosexual marriage. Louche yet learned, darling and daring, it’s no wonder Everett has long enjoyed his reign as the go-to actor when the world’s leading directors need an aristocrat – be it an imprisoned Charles I in or a salty Duke of Wellington in .
Lest we forget, he can trace his illustrious family tree back to the baronets Vyvyan of Trelowarren and the Baron von Schiedern. .