Yahoo News Red, White & Royal Blue star Nicholas Galitzine still had cake behind his ears the day after wedding scene
"Let them eat cake!" is a phrase often attributed to the monarchy, but Nicholas Galitzine took it literally while portraying Prince Henry in Red, White & Royal Blue.
In the film's opening sequence, Galitzine's Henry and Taylor Zakhar Perez's Alex, the First Son of the United States, create an international incident after a spat leads them to crash into and destroy a royal wedding cake. In the process, they both become utterly covered in cake and frosting. But Galitzine didn't find it so bad.
"You would get quite peckish throughout the day," he tells EW in an interview conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike. "The fact that you could just have a snack peeling off your body, you can have a little nibble there, was super convenient."
Jonathan Prime/Prime Video Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez in 'Red, White & Royal Blue'
Things got even messier when the crew tried to turn the sequence into a food fight. "A lot of the crew were very keen to get involved and throw cake at us in the second half when the cake's already hit us," says Galitzine. "But it was a really fun experience getting to work within that physical comedy space, very slapstick with icing on the suit, then the whiskey being used to dab the suit, and the cake coming down on top of us."
Galitzine could, at least, clean up relatively quickly once they wrapped — the English estate where they were filming had a shower upstairs that the cast could access. "Afterwards, I went and stood in the shower for a good half an hour," he says, with a laugh.
But he still couldn't escape the cake. "Even that evening and the next morning, I'd find something in my ear or behind my ears, and be like, 'What is that?'" he explains. "And it was bits of icing. I didn't eat those."
Based on the Casey McQuiston novel of the same name, Red, White & Royal Blue hits Prime Video on Aug. 11. It follows the secret romance of Prince Henry and the president's son, Alex, as their orders to feign a friendship lead them to develop a bond neither of them could have expected.
"I first read the book in early 2020 and I decided I wanted to make the movie by page 100," writer-director Matthew López previously told EW. "I fell madly in love with the characters and I wanted to bring them to life on the screen. I also was excited at the prospect of filming scenes set in the world of the presidency and the British Royal Family. I shamelessly harassed [producers] Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schecter into backing me with the studio to direct it. The idea that someone else might make this movie filled me with unbearable jealousy."
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