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Everett slams Hollywood's
'gay discrimination'
 04
Sept 2006- British actor Rupert Everett has launched a bitter attack against
Hollywood bosses for denying him romantic roles because he is gay.
The My Best Friends Wedding star, 47, compares himself to leading man Hugh Grant
and believes the Notting Hill star has enjoyed more success than him simply
because he is heterosexual.
Everett says: "Without doubt gays are discriminated against in show business.
The straight one gets to walk down a red carpet with a beautiful girl and
everything works out and the gay one has to back-pedal and do independent
movies. Yet everything Hugh Grant does, I could be in."
The star insists he could never feign a heterosexual relationships in a bid to
get ahead: "To be a movie star you have got to have a good-looking girlfriend
and for Hugh, Elizabeth Hurley helped. It is a trophy job. You need a lot of
energy to have a trophy girlfriend. I take my hat off to anyone who has one."
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