For instance: “I was horrible in that film [Dance With A Stranger], drunk on my own success. I was horrible to Miranda Richardson. But she was very irritating.” Yet, observes Alex Witchel, “Everett has had people staring at him for so much of his life that he seems quite unaffected by it. I couldn’t help thinking that any other man who got these kinds of looks from both men and women would be a complete monster.”