Nicholas Galitzine is deeply conscious that Hayes Campbell, the boy band member he performs in The Concept of You, has been in comparison to Harry Kinds again and again. He understands why — however he’s now not looking to do an influence.
“[Campbell is] his personal individual. … I perceive other people will make obtrusive 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 Would possibly 2, chronicles the affection affair between 40-year-old unmarried mother Solène Marchand, performed by way of Anne Hathaway, and 24-year-old singer Campbell. The movie is according to the unconventional The Concept of You by way of Robinne Lee, who instructed Trend in 2020 that Kinds was once one of the inspirations in the back of the guide’s male romantic lead.
Within the film, Marchand and Campbell attempt to stay their courting underneath wraps, however they’re foiled by way of paparazzi and picked aside by way of tabloids obsessing in regards to the 16-year age hole between them.
Galitzine mentioned one of the crucial major causes he was once attracted to play Campbell was once 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 according to has been criticized by way of some readers for its heartbreaking finishing — odd for a rom-com — however Galitzine discovered the tale’s complexity engaging.
“It’s scorching in some capacities, nevertheless it’s truly tragic and heartbreaking … and a laugh and joyous in others,” Galitzine mentioned. “I believe the most efficient romantic motion pictures are in a position to the touch on these kinds of other bases.”
Galitzine mentioned that during The Concept of You, the bodily appeal between his personality and Hathaway’s was once “the entryway into their courting.”
“It builds into one thing extra loving, however they’re simply wildly into every different,” he defined. “And I believe we depicted that during a truly pretty means.”
For somebody steadily solid 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 stunned he’s been dubbed a heartthrob.
“Having been an unsightly duckling in my teenage years, I believe it’s truly pretty to be in these types of roles,” he mentioned. “It’s extraordinary to be taking part in roles reverse the likes of Anne Hathaway, however I received’t shun it.”
Galitzine mentioned he’d been an enormous fan of Hathaway when he was once solid reverse her, and “the chemistry was once instant.”
“We had an quick figuring 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 an important factor.”
“The affection feels rather epic,” he added.
Excluding the romance and personality construction, there’s additionally a robust musical part to the film. The fictitious band that Campbell is a member of, August Moon, places on more than one live performance performances throughout the movie. To arrange, Galitzine and his bandmates went to “boy band camp” — however the actor additionally drew from his adolescence stories to encourage his musical numbers.
“My sister offered me to the Backstreet Boys and a few English bands that individuals may now not know, like Westlife and Boyzone,” he mentioned. “I used to be truly 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 creating the nature his personal, Galitzine mentioned he curated Campbell’s ink himself the use of Pinterest, development a backstory during the tattoos he presentations off within the film.
Galitzine is booked so steadily this present day that he was once filming duration piece Mary & George concurrently The Concept of You, and his fake ink brought about just a little 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 was once one as Hayes, in order that they assumed I had these kinds of tattoos,” he defined. The staff recommended 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, and so they mentioned, ‘Oh, you’re effective,’” he mentioned.
Now that he’s bared himself each bodily and emotionally taking part in fictional princes and princes of dad, Galitzine is holding an open thoughts about what roles he may tackle subsequent.
“We’re in a second presently the place we have now numerous superhero motion pictures, and perhaps we wish to take a destroy from that just a little,” he mentioned. “I’m looking to make Westerns cool once more as a result of if I will stay driving horses in tasks, I’m set for existence. I was one of these horse boy in the previous few years.”
The Concept of You streams Would possibly 2 on Top Video.