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HARDtalk: Rupert Everett

Rupert Everett

14/01/2013 GMT

BBC News - HARDtalk, Rupert Everett

HARDtalk speaks to Rupert Everett about his career and move into writing and directing.  

HARDtalk speaks to Rupert Everett, who's acting career has been marked by vivid highs and extreme lows. How will he fare as he moves into a new direction as a writer and director?

HARDtalk speaks to an actor whose life is been flavoured with a twist of melodrama. Rupert Everett�s career has been marked by vivid highs and extreme lows. The same can be said of a personal life which at times featured copious amounts of sex, drugs and alcohol. He had Hollywood success but it was fleeting because, he says, the movie business remains biased against gay actors. He�s won a new audience as a writer and he�s planning to direct his first film. So has the wildness in Rupert Everett been tamed? 

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