Rupert Everett (Oscar Wilde Actor) Straight Marriage in Church’sGrotesque, Hideous'I Loathe it'
The actor, who stars as Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss, claimed the ordinary British people will soon become “a service station to a new class, the uber-rich”.
He said “the face of London is totally changed,” due to an influx of very wealthy tycoons, joking he could soon become a "court jester" to "some oligarch".
He also condemned the Government as “ludicrous” and modern day conservatives “poisonous”.
His outspoken attack, published in a magazine today, comes as part of a wide-ranging discussion into morality, politics and sex.
“The generation of conservatives under me is much more poisonous than my generation,” he told Time Out.
“Yes there’s still a class system but it’s more than that. We are about to become like the Indians were during the British Empire, a
service station to a new class, the uber-rich.”
Joking he would become a "courtier" in his interpretation of new London, he added "we" would no longer be able to afford to live in the capital "because they will have priced everything out."
He emphasised he was not a member of the upper class himself, despite his public school education.
Calling the current Government "ludicrous", he compared it with a "rock group from Cirencester going on the X Factor", believing their act would still work on a national scale.
Speaking of modern morality and the recent Jimmy Savile revelations, he said sex was still regarded as a sin with an "extraordinary conservative undertow" in society at the moment.
“But Jimmy Savile and society were in cahoots," he added. "Everybody knew, nobody cared. This is what we have to look at."
He claimed the concept was part of his current play, which posed the idea that there is "no morality in ‘the morality of society’.”
The outspoken actor, 53, has previously criticised Hollywood as “very, very conservative” despite its liberal pretensions.Last year, he said he “can’t think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads”.
Speaking of gay marriage, he has said: "“But why do we want to get married in churches? I don’t understand that, myself, personally. I loathe heterosexual weddings; I would never go to a wedding in my life. I loathe the flowers, I loathe the f------ wedding dress, the little bridal tiara. It’s grotesque. It’s just hideous.”
Everett appears in The Judas Kiss at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London.
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