Article: 'Nasty Rupert' strikes again... Soldiers are slackers, the NHS is shocking. But the actor Rupert Everett has a curious fondness for the 'godfather of the sexual revolution', finds Nigel Farndale

I have mixed feelings about meeting Rupert Everett again - the mixture being between "This is a bad idea" and "You really shouldn't be doing this". There are two of him, I should explain, Nice Rupert and Nasty Rupert - and last time I got Nasty Rupert. That was six years ago, when he had a forgettable film to plug. He picked fights, lost his temper and refused to play the game. This time the man waiting for me at a table outside a Soho cafe could not be nicer. He is funny, he is animated, he is engaging. The difference, I suspect, is that he is proud of his latest project, a documentary called The Victorian Sex Explorer.

As well he might be. It is a fascinating portrait of Sir Richard ...

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