Dandywatch: Sebastian Melmoth to be gayest Wilde movie yet!

Friday, cigarette #1

Rupert Everett is making a movie about Wilde's last years:

Everett’s project about the post-libel trial life of Wilde, during which the playwright, novelist and poet lived in exile and had to adopt pseudonyms like Sebastian Melmoth, covers much of the same territory as the play The Judas Kiss, written by David Hare. Directed by Notes on a Scandal helmer Richard Eyre, it is perhaps one of the reasons why the actor was motivated to try and set the record straight.

“Those people should never ever have thought about attacking the Wilde story, because they have no sympathy, or sensitivity or sensibility,” Everett declares to the newspaper of the 1998 production at London’s The Playhouse. “They're rigorously straight, the two of them. They cast Liam Neeson as Wilde — why? Because he's big and Irish!"

Set the record "straight?" Cute.