After strategically withholding Napoleon from the festival circuit, Ridley Scott went guerilla instead, launching his controversial military epic into cinemas like a carefully-thrown hand grenade.
The tactic worked, overriding critical reviews that tore apart its history, its script and even its star, Joaquin Phoenix, to give Scott a $200 million worldwide gross.
Overlooked in the fallout was a terrific performance by Rupert Everett as the Duke of Wellington, the stiff-upper-lip Brit who proves to be Napoleon’s nemesis at the Battle of Waterloo.
Here, the laconic British actor reflects on the influences that fed into his portrayal of the Iron Duke. DEADLINE: How did you get involved with the Napoleon project? RUPERT EVERETT: It just came up out of the blue.
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