Nicholas Galitzine is deeply mindful that Hayes Campbell, the boy band member he performs in The Thought of You, has been in comparison to Harry Kinds repeatedly. He understands why — however he’s no longer looking to do an affect.
“[Campbell is] his personal individual. … I perceive other people will make glaring comparisons,” he instructed Yahoo Leisure. “However he’s additionally very a lot an amalgam of numerous other people.”
The romantic comedy, which starts streaming on Top Video on Might 2, chronicles the affection affair between 40-year-old unmarried mother Solène Marchand, performed through Anne Hathaway, and 24-year-old singer Campbell. The movie is in response to the unconventional The Thought of You through Robinne Lee, who instructed Fashion in 2020 that Kinds used to be one of the inspirations at the back of the guide’s male romantic lead.
Within the film, Marchand and Campbell attempt to stay their courting below wraps, however they’re foiled through paparazzi and picked aside through tabloids obsessing concerning the 16-year age hole between them.
Galitzine mentioned one of the crucial major causes he used to be interested in play Campbell used to be the nature’s quest to handle his “robust sense of morality” even after being “thrust right into a firestorm of media consideration and scrutiny.”
The radical that the film is in response to has been criticized through some readers for its heartbreaking finishing — strange for a rom-com — however Galitzine discovered the tale’s complexity attractive.
“It’s sizzling in some capacities, but it surely’s actually tragic and heartbreaking … and amusing and joyous in others,” Galitzine mentioned. “I feel the most productive romantic films are in a position to the touch on these kinds of other bases.”
Galitzine mentioned that during The Thought of You, the bodily enchantment between his persona and Hathaway’s used to be “the entryway into their courting.”
“It builds into one thing extra loving, however they’re simply wildly into each and every different,” he defined. “And I feel we depicted that during a actually beautiful method.”
For anyone continuously solid as a good-looking prince — Britain’s Prince Henry in Crimson, White & Royal Blue and the affection pastime Prince Robert within the 2021 Top Video adaptation of Cinderella — Galitzine remains to be shocked he’s been dubbed a heartthrob.
“Having been an unsightly duckling in my teenage years, I feel it’s actually beautiful to be in these kind of roles,” he mentioned. “It’s atypical to be taking part in roles reverse the likes of Anne Hathaway, however I gained’t shun it.”
Galitzine mentioned he’d been an enormous fan of Hathaway when he used to be solid reverse her, and “the chemistry used to be instant.”
“We had an speedy working out of who those characters have been and who they have been to one another,” he defined. “She’s very open and collaborative … and that’s a very powerful factor.”
“The affection feels reasonably epic,” he added.
Excluding the romance and persona construction, there’s additionally a robust musical element to the film. The fictitious band that Campbell is a member of, August Moon, places on a couple of live performance performances all through the movie. To organize, Galitzine and his bandmates went to “boy band camp” — however the actor additionally drew from his adolescence studies to encourage his musical numbers.
“My sister offered me to the Backstreet Boys and a few English bands that individuals may no longer know, like Westlife and Boyzone,” he mentioned. “I used to be actually into rock ‘n’ roll artists like Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Oasis and Queen … however I had a plethora of tune compelled down my throat as a child and I’m thankful for it now.”
Like many rock stars, Campbell is roofed in tattoos. Within the procedure of creating the nature his personal, Galitzine mentioned he curated Campbell’s ink himself the use of Pinterest, development a backstory in the course of the tattoos he presentations off within the film.
Galitzine is booked so continuously nowadays that he used to be filming length piece Mary & George similtaneously The Thought of You, and his pretend ink led to slightly of a debacle between units.
“I take numerous my garments off on digicam, and sadly the [Mary & George] make-up division went right into a meltdown since the image they’d noticed of me used to be one as Hayes, so that they assumed I had these kinds of tattoos,” he defined. The team advised him to come back in two hours early to hide his tattoos for the sequence, which is ready within the seventeenth century.
“Then I confirmed up totally naked, they usually mentioned, ‘Oh, you’re wonderful,’” he mentioned.
Now that he’s bared himself each bodily and emotionally taking part in fictional princes and princes of father, Galitzine is holding an open thoughts about what roles he may tackle subsequent.
“We’re in a second at this time the place we’ve numerous superhero films, and possibly we wish to take a damage from that slightly,” he mentioned. “I’m looking to make Westerns cool once more as a result of if I will stay using horses in initiatives, I’m set for existence. I turned into this sort of horse boy in the previous few years.”
The Thought of You streams Might 2 on Top Video.