Everett’s equal opportunities
Rupert Everett is widely identified as a gay actor, says John Walsh in the London Independent, but he’s actually a bisexual. As a younger man, the handsome Brit had been involved with several gorgeous women, Susan Sarandon and Béatrice Dalle among them. T
Rupert Everett is widely identified as a gay actor, says John Walsh in the London Independent, but he’s actually a bisexual. As a younger man, the handsome Brit had been involved with several gorgeous women, Susan Sarandon and Béatrice Dalle among them. Though he’s usually attracted to men, Everett says, women provide a refreshing contrast, and are far more attentive and considerate. “In a gay relationship,” he explains, “men are always elbowing for supremacy.” There are other advantages, too. “When you’re heterosexual, the world opens up for you. If you go to dinner in a restaurant with a girl, everyone looks at you in a friendly way. There’s a unity in the world. You’re totally embraced by it, you totally fit in, it’s gorgeous. If you go to dinner with a boy, even now, you have to harden your energy fields against the world’s disapproval.” It’s not that Everett plans on giving up men—he doesn’t—but every now and then, he says, it’s interesting to have an adventure in a foreign land. “What we regard as sexuality now is just repeating the pleasures we’re used to. I think the real excitement of sexuality is discovering things that are new. When you’re young, even if you have a predilection for one area of life, you still want to try everything. The most exciting things are when you’re completely on a new planet.”
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