Rupert Everett likens death of a Hollywood career to actually dying

AFTER soaring to stardom in the ‘90s Rupert Everett has revealed what it’s like to have a successful Hollywood acting career plateau and dive.

DURING his early career Rupert Everett was deemed England’s hot new star and an international success, but he now marvels at the similarities between real death and career death.

With his smooth deep voice and undeniably good looks the actor attracted a swooning fan base after filming a lead role in Another Country in 1984.

Actor Rupert Everett in his early career. Picture: News Limited.

Everett labelled this, “the best-made film” of his time on the big screen. According to IMDb he said his first two movies were classics and he “should probably have died in a crash,” if he was serious about his career.

His steep climb to fame was peppered with conflicts with fans and the press but he soared back to Hollywood stardom in the 90s.

During this decade, Everett played Julia Robert’s gay confidante in My Best Friend’s Wedding; he was also in Shakespeare in Love, An Ideal Husband and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Julia Roberts and Rupert Everett in My Best Friend's Wedding. Picture: Supplied.

This era of time was a bubble of success for the actor but his career took a massive dive after filming The Next Best Thing with his now ex friend, Madonna.

In an interview with The Guardian Everett said, “It’s like snakes and ladders. Career death is rather like real death, so it gives you an opportunity to see what real death feels like.”

Critics on Rotten Tomatoes have called the 2005 film, “dismal”, “astonishingly bad”, “phony” and an overall, “depressing, lugubrious film experience,” with an overwhelming number blasting Madonna’s “weak” acting.

“You build up this character for yourself as a successful person, and it feels indestructible, especially when you’re young, and then suddenly, the only person who will treat you like the big star you were is probably your mum, and some goon,” the actor said.

Everett’s friendship with the superstar went completely belly up after the actor wrote she looked like “a Picasso” and acted like an “old whiny barmaid” in his 2006 memoir.

Madonna and Rupert Everett in The Next Best Thing. Picture: Reuters.

According to Everett, Madonna was allegedly furious, and he just couldn’t seem to understand why, defending his description as “very charming” and “generous”.

He is currently playing Dr Hendrick in BBC’s TV medical comedy Quack and The Happy Prince, a biological drama film he wrote and directed about Oscar Wilde is set to be released next year.

According to the actor, in the end you could be rushing for a bus at 78 for an audition and burst a blood vessel, or you could be an older actor at a play who can’t remember their lines and have to be let go.

“It’s so heartbreaking, but also beautiful, dignified, when you see it close-up.

“There’s a line in The Happy Prince: there’s no mystery so great as suffering.”