The gay best friend of My Best Friend's Wedding is now actually married!
Rupert Everett, the 65-year-old British actor best known for starring in films like My Best Friend's Wedding, An Ideal Man, and My Policeman, recently revealed that he got secretly married to his long-time partner — a Brazilian accountant called Henrique.
Everett told Tatler that this secret, low-key wedding took place at the Camden Town Hall and was followed by lunch at the actor's favorite restaurant. "I have always hated weddings, although I do love funerals," Everett explained. "But when you get older… I have seen so many problems that gay couples face, so it's really more about forward-thinking, as we have been together for a long time now."
The Serpent Queen actor added, "I don't know how long I'm going to last. Well, being tall, I've never seen a 95-year-old 6ft 5in person. You just never know what's going to happen."
"The great thing about getting older is that you realize you don't have to strain every nerve to the point of hemorrhoids to be relevant," the actor concluded in the Tatler interview.
Back in 2012, Everett — like some other people in the LGBTQ+ community — had a different point of view when it came to same-sex marriage. The actor famously shared the following statement during an interview with The Guardian:
"Why do queens want to go and get married in churches? Obviously this crusty old pathetic, Anglican church — the most joke-ish church of all jokey churches — of course they don't want to have queens getting married. It's kind of understandable that they don't; they're crusty, old, calcified freaks. But why do we want to get married in churches? I don't understand that, myself, personally."
Everett went on in that 2012 interview, "I loathe heterosexual weddings; I would never go to a wedding in my life. I loathe the flowers, I loathe the f*cking wedding dress, the little bridal tiara. It's grotesque. It's just hideous. The wedding cake, the party, the champagne, the inevitable divorce two years later. It's just a waste of time in the heterosexual world. And in the homosexual world, I find it personally beyond tragic that we want to ape this institution that is so clearly a disaster."
Time has allowed Everett to rethink that perspective and understand that all weddings and marriages can take different forms that work for each couple — which really resonates with most queer couples that tie the knot.
Congratulations are in order to Rupert Everett and his hubby, Henrique!
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