Rupert Everett issued an apology on Monday for the idiotic statements he made about current British service people being whimps in a Sunday Brit newspaper.
In an interview to publicize his new film, The Victorian Sex Explorer, he had said: “The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don’t think there is any point in having wars if that’s how you’re going to behave. It’s pathetic. All this whining!…The whole point of being in the Army is going to war and getting yourself blown up. That and p—ing on prisoners. Yet we all get shocked by Abu Ghraib.”
But, on Monday, he issued a lengthy statement apologizing “without reserve” to the “many in this country, and hundreds and thousands of others across the world who have lost their brothers and sisters, their fathers and mothers to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and all the countless others”.
Everett explained he made his remarks to compare war now to war in Victorian times, saying, “I compared his longing to get into battle to the way we engage in war today. Then death was glorious. Today it is what it really is. Each and every death is a terrible tragic loss.”
Another actor, another stupid comment outta the mouth.
We’re not sure why Rupe apologized, though. It’s not like he’s actually got a thriving career he’s trying to protect!
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