Gay actor Rupert Everett has been openly gay for 20 years..but he doesn’t recommend it for anyone else. Rup says that homophobia in Hollywood has kept him from becoming a leading man. He says that heterosexuals are cast as gays (think: ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and ‘Transamerica’) but gay men are denied the best straight roles.

“It’s not that advisable to be honest. It’s not very easy. And, honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out. The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business,” he said. “It just doesn’t work and you’re going to hit a brick wall at some point. You’re going to manage to make it roll for a certain amount of time, but at the first sign of failure they’ll cut you right off. And I’m sick of saying, ‘Yes, it’s probably my own fault.’ Because I’ve always tried to make it work and when it stops working somewhere, I try to make it work somewhere else. But the fact of the matter is, and I don’t care who disagrees, it doesn’t work if you’re gay.”

That really sucks and I’m sure it is a Hollywood standard. But on the other hand Neil Patrick Harris has had huge success as a so-straight-its-painful-man on “How I Met Your Mother” and in the “Harold and Kumar” movies. So maybe it’s time for Rup to get over himself…maybe he’s just not that good and that’s why he’s not getting work…not what he’s doing in the bedroom.

I used to think Rup was dreamy…but he’s turning into a grumpy old queen.

Before we all start hating on Rupert Everett for saying that it’s “fortuitous” that Michael Jackson died..let’s just breakdown what homeboy is saying.

We’ve all been calling MJ a freak for YEARS..and Rupert is right that child molestation case killed him on the inside. I think the pain of a slave comment might be a bit much…but I think he’s pretty much dead on about everything else.

The star tells the U.K.’s Daily Mirror, “He was a freak. He looked like a character from Shrek. He was a black to white minstrel. He was crucified by that court case when he was accused of child molestation – that killed him. He personified the pain and anxiety of a black man in a slave country. We all watched as he changed form black to white. He was living performance art.”

“I think it was fortuitous that he died. He was supposed to be doing 50 concerts in London. It wouldn’t have mattered how good or bad he was. He wouldn’t have managed to do all of them and the press would have destroyed him.”

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