Actor Rupert Everett, perhaps best known for playing Julia Roberts’s best gay in 1997’s My Best Friend’s Wedding, has a few shocking thoughts about Michael Jackson’s death.
“He was a freak,” Everett, 50, told the British paper the Mirror. “He looked like a character from Shrek. He was a black to white minstrel. …”
Jackson “personified the pain and anxiety of a black man in a slave country,” Everett added “We all watched as he changed from black to white. He was living performance art. I think it was fortuitous that he died.”
Speaking of plastic-surgery freaks, this is how hot Rupert Everett used to be before his surgeon offered him a buy-an-eyebrow-lift-get-a-free-chin deal.
One final thought: Didn’t the Shrek animators base Prince Charming’s face on the man who voiced him?
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“Michael Jackson was a freak” said the guy that kinda looks like Rocky Dennis from “Mask”, while surrounded by Angela Lansbury, and Julie Andrews. A purple feathered boa, an eye patch, and a bottle of Southern Comfort would have made that the perfect picture.
OMG, that’s what’s so weird about his face. I have been staring at it for months since he popped up on the Martha show and I couldn’t put my finger on what was dramatically different outside of the lifting. It is the chin, isn’t it?
Why, Rupert, whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy??? You used to look so hot and masculine. Now you look fake and plastic. Yuck.
Oh, btw, Rupert – pot, meet kettle.
He has really not aged well in the last 10-15 years. I always enjoyed him in movies, but he reminds me of Oscar Wilde. Though I’m sure he’d take that as a compliment, I really mean “all fluff and glitter, and no substance”.
You know, I think he might have had cheek implants, too. Huh. What a freak you are, Rupert.
Ewww. He’s one eyelid-yank away from Jocelyn Wildenstein.
Good observation, Stacey. Cheek implants are a good bet. He’s starting to look like Bruce Jenner.
Why? Why do good people do this to themselves. He was hot in My Best Friends Wedding and now he looks like a freak show himself. Why I am not denying that Michael was not a freak show, as he was, looks like Rubert needs to look in the mirror.
@Holly: Current Bruce Jenner, or old bad face life Bruce Jenner, or original Bruce Jenner of cereal box fame?
Lift. Lift. Damnit. If only I could be bothered to proof read before pounding the Submit button.
“Slave country?” Howsabout “wife-beheading is my hobby” country?
Bruce Jenner as I saw him in December during a stint of espionage at the Kardashian boutique. That was before he got his shit fixed.
Rupert Everett calls MJ a freak? That’s like the pot calling the kettle black (or white) in this case.
Looks like ol’ Rupee should be in the show “My Best Friends A plastic Surgeon”.
“Slave country?” Really? I could be wrong, but didn’t the Brits import a bunch of slaves to work the sugar plantations in the Caribbean? Didn’t the Slave Act abolish the slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself? Again, pot meet kettle.
As for his poor face, it looks to me like he’s going for his Shrektastic Prince Charming look, possibly a case of life imitating cartoons. He was so nice-looking before; why couldn’t he leave well enough alone?
Holy shit. This guy has ruined himself.
Rupert Everett now looks like a cross between Mario Cantone (Anthony Marentino on SITC) and KD Lang.
Seems to have some self-loathing going on. I had a friend in law enforcement who said Rupert Everett had been arrested for male prostitution five years before he became famous. Don’t knwo if its true or not, but he was historically reliable.
He’s just unrecognizable. Instead of a fairly effete but somehow dashing man, now he looks like an oily poolboy who sells ersatz E on the side.
Hahaha. Not even real E!
Holly, you made me think about Bruce Jenner. What is it about these leading men with looks that most of the population would kill for, that arguably made their celebrity (granted Jenner was also one of the best athletes in the history of track and field, something youngsters may forget), where they want to change it?
Maybe the got too much praise as children. Maybe they felt their mojo slipping away… just bizarre. I tend to be attracted solely to women, but I have no problem saying that both Bruce Jenner and Rupert Everett were in the top 1% of male attractiveness. Yet they turned themselves into the bottom 1% by going too far, or not far enough, in the case of Bruce’s nose.
Fear of aging. Fear of death. Even male celebrities aren’t immune to the Hollywood youth fascination, I suppose. Personally I think the best-looking celebs over 45 are the ones who look their age (George Clooney comes to mind).
Bubbasmom: My great-grandmother was dropped off at a Church of England orphanage when she was 8 with her older sister during the depression by her mother who couldn’t afford to fee the girls. She told the priests it was a temporary and they would be picked up as soon as possible a few months later.
In the meantime, the devious orphanage put all the kids on boats to Canada for money, and when the boats docked, they found out they were sent to “host” families to live. That’s code for, “Families whom you will be indentured to forever or until you’re 18th birthday and the head of the house sets you free – whichever comes first.”
Rupert either doesn’t know his own county’s history (which makes him an ignorant writer/Englishman), or he’s just a lying fool (now complete with ugly face).
>>Jackson “personified the pain and anxiety of a black man in a slave country,” Everett added<<
Looks like the typical “Blame Whitey” routine from the Hollywood Leftists. I wish someone mention me in which “magical” Black Country Wacko-Jacko would have made his millions. What about the ownership of the “Beatles” catalogue? Do this is also slavery?
My family owned TWO copies of the album “Triller” when he got out. This is the point our dear Rupert Everett forgot: MJ made most of his money out of Whites. No amount of whitewashing or esthetic surgery will change that.
Sorry sir, I don’t accept the race card as an excuse for his wackiness.
Oh poor Rupert, he used to look so elegantly handsome.
Fortuitous that he died? Ick. Not so elegantly intelligent.
Lansbury looks like she has a Klingon forehead, wow! Must be the harsh lighting.
You’re imagining things, Jannah!
http://i32.tinypic.com/352gi91.jpg
Kind of looks like all three of them have had “Forehead vein enhancement”
Holly, some of the best-looking celebrities over 45 have so much sheer presence that it’s impossible not to like the way they look. I think the ones who get caught up in major plastic surgery are the ones who don’t have much going for them in the talent and charisma department…so they get way too focused on trying to keep or “perfect” their looks.
Pearce, I absolutely agree. Note that men and women who can hold on to their talent and/or fame seem more secure, and thus more apt to let Mother Nature sculpt their faces. I doubt that Paul Newman, George Clooney, or Jack Nicholson have ever had much plastic surgery, if any, and I think that’s related to the fact that all of them have stayed good actors (RIP Paul Newman, you are well remembered!) and had more than looks to take to the bank. Now look at Bruce Jenner, Axl Rose and Rupert Everett: all of them have trouble holding onto marketable talent and, by extension, being seen as relevant. So they overcompensate by making the outside look as “pretty” as possible when there’s nothing inside the box, so to speak.
Of course, as we all know, the great irony is that overcompensation draws attention to the very fact one wishes to hide. Whoops.
Holly said… “Personally I think the best-looking celebs over 45 are the ones who look their age (George Clooney comes to mind).”
Amen, sister!
I don’t think that Rupert was hot, ever, but that’s just MHO…to each his/her own :^)
Douche-watering at the mouth is nothing new for Rupert Everett. I remember an interview back in 1999/2000 where he referred to John McCain as a “crazy old white man who spent a couple years in a hole”. Although that might not be the exact quote (believe me I looked), that was pretty much the spirit of it. The guy likes to imagine himself as a modern Noel Coward, when in fact he’s just a jackass.
@Anna: In Axl’s case, it would probably help–both in the looks department AND the “talent” department–if he could refrain from having to throw Tommy Hilfiger a juicy smackdown every now and then.
OT: I’m curious as to how Matt Damon is going to age. He’s like a sample-sized version of my husband.
“I had a friend in law enforcement who said Rupert Everett had been arrested for male prostitution five years before he became famous. Don’t knwo if its true or not, but he was historically reliable.”
I don’t know if he was ever arrested, but he’s said in the past that he was a prostitute for a while before he became famous, so your friend was probably telling the truth.
There are some guys who are great-looking when they’re younger and are still great-looking when they’re older, though in a different way. It has to do with the bone structure. Rupert Everett has strong enough bone structure that he could have left his face alone and just become great-looking in a different way, but he had to try to keep it the way it was when he was younger and now he just looks weird.
*snorts* Slave country. Rupert Everett might want look up which country, England or America, used to put gay men to death for sodomy before he starts acting like England’s had such a morally superior past.
LOL-times-infinity Fortunate! X-D Nice work!
The weird thing is that the same kinds of plastic surgery — cheek/chin implants, eye lifts, etc. — end up making all the actors/actresses who get them look like they have the same face. That is, all variations on the steps to Bride of Wilderstein, or whatever her name is. Tsktsk, that old Twilight Zone ep where it’s fashionable to have the all same faces is really coming true.
Oscar Wilde was all fluff and glitter, and no substance?
Aw…. I liked his old face.. I hadn’t heard about the changes, I really couldn’t recognize him in the picture!
(I do think Julie Andrews still looks good!)
…I can’t look at him without hearing “With soft and bouncy hair!”
Jannah, they definitely start all looking the same. I mean, they eliminate whatever features used to make them distinctive. What was the name of that actress who ruined her career by getting a nosejob which made her unrecognizable?
What I’m really getting sick of is actresses getting fish lips.
Jennifer Grey, from Dirty Dancing.
Right Pearce and Beige. And have you seen the more recent photos of Natasha Richardson right before she died? She always had the cutest unique face, and you could tell that she was getting that plumped up, cemented, and embalmed look in her last year efore her accident. Such a shame.
Really off-topic, but Oscar Wilde always chose to show off his cleverness with words and such rather than develop real characters.
Chris O’Donnell still looks as hot as he was in “SCent of a Women”. Real men do not need cosmetic surgery.
Real women don’t need plastic surgery either, A.A.W. Look at how gorgeous Michelle Pfeiffer is in her 50s – I don’t think she’s had any work done.
Beige, you’ve got a full-size Matt Damon for a husband? Nice. My better half looks like a Daniel Craig/Josh Bell combo, both of whom are aging nicely.
Yup. I count my blessings every single day, more often on weekends.
Everett personifies the pain and anxiety of a white man using a slave country as a tax shelter while pledging lip-service fidelity to his native serf country.
MCMom wrote:
Dang. You two are good shoppers. Mine has an Anthony Edwards face on the body of Grizzly Adams. Neither is aging particularly well.
I just surfed for a recent picture of Grizzly (Don Haggerty) and the man is botoxed up the wazoo pitching a hair club for men on YouTube. I’d say it was a career-plummet, but then again, when your acme point on the famousosity scale was a show where you conversed with skunks, bald infomercials may be a step in the right direction.
YAY! I just got a couple of new outfits for my Minnow Action Figure. So pretty–and fully poseable!
Hey, I really used to like Grizzly Adams! Well, actually I loved his indian friend Nakoma…point taken.
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I hope one was the purple polka dotted mini-jumper, Beige. The one with the matching bloomers and the kicky white go-go boots.
That’s my favorite.
MC Mom and Beige clearly know where the good Man-Mart is.
I’ve got a young RDJ Tony Stark, minus the alcoholism and womanizing. High fives all around.
In my experience, the best Man-Mart is college. Sort out the losers, grab a decent guy and grow up together.
If that doesn’t work out, I hear there’s this internet dating thing.
A young Tony Stark, Pearce? Hot dayamn.
Where’s my Minnow Action Figure? Is Grizzly Adams husband sold separately?
Does Minnow Action Figure have karate chop action?
Definitely. And it has an UltraSnark button.
Ooooh! I want one! And the remote control global warming inducing car!