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 Types repeatedly. He understands why — however he’s no longer seeking to do an affect.
“[Campbell is] his personal individual. … I perceive other folks will make evident comparisons,” he instructed Yahoo Leisure. “However he’s additionally very a lot an amalgam of a large number of other folks.”
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 by means of Anne Hathaway, and 24-year-old singer Campbell. The movie is in line with the radical The Thought of You by means of Robinne Lee, who instructed Trend in 2020 that Types was once one of the inspirations at the back of the e-book’s male romantic lead.
Within the film, Marchand and Campbell attempt to stay their courting beneath wraps, however they’re foiled by means of paparazzi and picked aside by means of tabloids obsessing in regards to the 16-year age hole between them.
Galitzine stated one of the vital primary causes he was once interested in play Campbell was once the nature’s quest to handle his “sturdy sense of morality” even after being “thrust right into a firestorm of media consideration and scrutiny.”
The radical that the film is in line with has been criticized by means of some readers for its heartbreaking finishing — extraordinary for a rom-com — however Galitzine discovered the tale’s complexity engaging.
“It’s scorching in some capacities, nevertheless it’s in point of fact tragic and heartbreaking … and a laugh and joyous in others,” Galitzine stated. “I feel the most productive romantic motion pictures are in a position to the touch on a majority of these other bases.”
Galitzine stated that during The Thought of You, the bodily enchantment between his persona and Hathaway’s was once “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 in point of fact pretty approach.”
For somebody ceaselessly forged as a good-looking prince — Britain’s Prince Henry in Pink, White & Royal Blue and the affection passion Prince Robert within the 2021 Top Video adaptation of Cinderella — Galitzine remains to be shocked he’s been dubbed a heartthrob.
“Having been an unpleasant duckling in my teenage years, I feel it’s in point of fact pretty to be in these kind of roles,” he stated. “It’s odd to be enjoying roles reverse the likes of Anne Hathaway, however I received’t shun it.”
Galitzine stated he’d been an enormous fan of Hathaway when he was once forged reverse her, and “the chemistry was once immediate.”
“We had an immediate working out of who those characters had been and who they had been to one another,” he defined. “She’s very open and collaborative … and that’s an important factor.”
“The affection feels somewhat epic,” he added.
Except the romance and persona building, there’s additionally a powerful musical part to the film. The fictitious band that Campbell is a member of, August Moon, places on a couple of live performance performances throughout the movie. To organize, Galitzine and his bandmates went to “boy band camp” — however the actor additionally drew from his formative years reports to encourage his musical numbers.
“My sister offered me to the Backstreet Boys and a few English bands that folks would possibly no longer know, like Westlife and Boyzone,” he stated. “I used to be in point of fact into rock ‘n’ roll artists like Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Oasis and Queen … however I had a plethora of song 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 constructing the nature his personal, Galitzine stated he curated Campbell’s ink himself the usage of Pinterest, development a backstory throughout the tattoos he displays off within the film.
Galitzine is booked so ceaselessly in this day and age that he was once filming duration piece Mary & George concurrently The Thought of You, and his pretend ink brought about a little of a debacle between units.
“I take a large number of my garments off on digital camera, and sadly the [Mary & George] make-up division went right into a meltdown since the image they’d noticed of me was once one as Hayes, in order that they assumed I had a majority of these tattoos,” he defined. The staff suggested him to come back in two hours early to hide his tattoos for the collection, which is ready within the seventeenth century.
“Then I confirmed up utterly naked, they usually stated, ‘Oh, you’re positive,’” he stated.
Now that he’s bared himself each bodily and emotionally enjoying fictional princes and princes of father, Galitzine is retaining an open thoughts about what roles he would possibly tackle subsequent.
“We’re in a second at the moment the place we’ve a large number of superhero motion pictures, and perhaps we wish to take a destroy from that a little,” he stated. “I’m seeking to make Westerns cool once more as a result of if I will stay using horses in tasks, I’m set for lifestyles. I turned into this kind of horse boy in the previous couple of years.”
The Thought of You streams Might 2 on Top Video.