Rupert: Hero Wilde started the gay rights movement..
108 die, 3 live in plane fireball Docu captures Everett’s making of film in which he plays Irish author
At city edge INVESTIGATORS search for clues yesterday after 108 passengers and crew died when a 39-year-old Boeing 737 crashed near Havana.
Three women survived in critical condition when the flight from Cuba’s capital to the eastern city of Holguin dived into woods on takeoff.
State airline Cubana had rented the plane after problems with its own fleet. poignant dramatisation of Wilde’s final years in exile because he believes it is the most romantic part of his story. He said: “The film is about the end when he goes into prison. For me the Rupert Everett as author and playwright Oscar Wilde part I’ve always found very romantic is this fallen star. He was such a celebrity.
“He was one of the last great 19th century vagabonds, smelling of p***, with no teeth.
“He really is lying in the gutter. Then I became a little bit obsessed by the notion of him always wanting to get to the gutter. I think it’s a very romantic story which has never been told in film so I started writing about that.”
The programme follows Everett from his onstage triumph playing Wilde in the West End, through numerous setbacks.
It tracks the actor for five years as he tried to get his script into production.
At one stage filming was pulled on the first day when he got pneumonia.
But he believes the star power of longtime pal Colin Firth, who plays Wilde’s friend Reginald “Reggie” Turner, pushed his movie over the line.
He added: “I’m an actor on the skids. It was very lucky. Colin signed up to take part in the film eight years ago when he wasn’t quite as successful as he is now.”
Rupert Everett: Born To Be Wilde airs on BBC One tonight at 10.30pm.
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For me the part I’ve always found very romantic is this fallen star – such a celebrity RUPERT EVERETT ON OSCAR WILDE