Rupert Everett: 'I was asked to be in A Room with a View, and I didn't. I was trying to be an American. I didn't want to go on being a upper-class floppy head. It was a big mistake, one of my great mistakes'

"The writer Ezra Pound once said that writing is all about making things new - and Everett does just that... a sound peculiar to Paris."

"Unlike myself they still stopped traffic. People still looked out of windows or stood and gaped."

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