Everett slams
Hollywood's 'gay discrimination'
IrishExaminer.com
from the Web, September 4, 2006
British actor Rupert Everett has
launched a bitter attack against Hollywood bosses for denying him romantic roles
because he is gay.
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Actors
like Hugh Grant (pictured) succeed in Hollywood as a result of being
heterosexual and having trophy girlfriends, says gay actor Rupert
Everett. |
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The My Best Friends Wedding star, 47,
compares himself to leading man Hugh Grant and believes the Notting Hill star
has enjoyed more success than him simply because he is heterosexual.
Everett says: "Without doubt gays are discriminated against in show
business. The straight one gets to walk down a red carpet with a beautiful girl
and everything works out and the gay one has to back-pedal and do independent
movies. Yet everything Hugh Grant does, I could be in."
The star insists he could never feign a heterosexual relationships in a bid to
get ahead: "To be a movie star you have got to have a good-looking
girlfriend and for Hugh, Elizabeth Hurley helped. It is a trophy job.
You need a lot of energy to have a trophy girlfriend. I take my hat off to
anyone who has one."
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