‘We don’t see each other anymore’: Rupert Everett reveals how the failure of movie The Next Best Thing contributed to the demise of his close friendship with co-star Madonna
English actor Rupert Everett has starred in films including My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Madness of King George and Shakespeare in Love.
However, he admitted to Stellar magazine in Australian newspaper The Sunday Telegraph this week, how the failure of 2000’s The Next Best Thing at the height of his Hollywood career, caused the demise of his friendship with co-star Madonna.
The 61-year-old described the devastating effect the film had on his career as like ‘an outer-space explosion’.
‘It was like an outer-space explosion’: Rupert Everett (pictured), 61, revealed how the failure of 2000 film The Next Best Thing caused the demise of his close friendship with co-star Madonna, in an interview with Australian newspaper The Sunday Telegraph this weekend
When asked what became of his once close friendship with the American singer, 62, Rupert said: ‘We don’t see each other anymore. I do miss it.
‘She’s an amazing person and that part of my life was incredibly exciting. To be doing a film with her and to be a friend of hers and to have been such a fan of hers.’
He continued: ‘But the fallout from the movie’s failure was gigantic for me, like an outer-space explosion.’
Plot: Comedy-drama The Next Best Thing saw Rupert and Madonna (pictured on screen) play two best friends that have a child together, and are embroiled in a custody battle years later
Comedy-drama The Next Best Thing saw Rupert and Madonna play two best friends that have a child together, and are embroiled in a custody battle years later.
Things reportedly came to a head in 2006 when Rupert published alleged, intimate details involving Madonna and Sean Penn in his memoir Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, which she took exception to.
As reported by the UK’s EXPRESS back in 2009, Madonna never forgave him.
Fallout: When asked what became of his once close friendship with the American singer, 62, Rupert said: ”We don’t see each other anymore. I do miss it… The fallout from the movie’s failure was gigantic for me, like an outer-space explosion.’ Pictured in 2000
Memories: Rupert did have fond memories of their friendship, telling Stellar magazine: ‘She’s an amazing person and that part of my life was incredibly exciting.’ Pictured in 1999
‘She really didn’t like it (the book). I think it is very affectionate, and certainly with her I was very careful to only write things that were. But she felt it was an infringement of privacy,’ he said.
‘Goddesses like that are obsessed with their public image and want to control everything about it, so if anyone is to tell anyone anything about her it’s got to be her.’
‘Elephants don’t forget… She doesn’t trust me any more,’ he went on to say.
Hollywood: Before The Next Best Thing, Rupert’s breakthrough role in Hollywood was 1997’s My Best Friend’s Wedding. Pictured with co-star Julia Roberts