Another Country

I had seen him on stage in London years before, a story that I one day I should tell separately because it's kind of miraculous.

He was in Another Country.

He had replaced Daniel Day-Lewis, and Daniel Day-Lewis had replaced Rupert Everett.

I remember seeing his performance and saying, "Wow, who the hell is this guy?" Well, it's this one, Adrien Leduc.

Number two.

Number two is a 1984 film called Another Country, directed by a guy called Marek Kaniewski.

And it's not a spy film as such, but it's a very loose presentation of Guy Burgess at a sort of Eton-type boarding school.

And Rupert Everett plays the lead role, and it was kind of his breakthrough role.

Earl Spencer is in it as one of the school kids and Kerry Elwes is in it and Colin Firth.

There's a lot of British actors before they were famous in it.

And then later, this isn't one of my titles, but later on, Rupert Everett came back and did another film for the same writer called different loyalty where he played a skewed version of Kim Philby so Rupert Everett's had quite the spy sort of history but another another country and there's a gay film as well it was I remember being deeply affected by it.

Again, it's not a naughty, fleshy film, but I remember being obsessed by public school setups and the sixth form guys leaving their dorms at night to go into the boathouse and smoke cigarettes with their lover.