Most ‘Magical’ Scene Was From Book

Red, White and Royal Blue director Matthew López was in a position to deliver one of many guide’s most “magical” moments to display screen, and it ended up being his favourite a part of his debut movie.

“I really loved doing the V and A scene,” the Tony Award winner completely informed Us Weekly. “I loved being in that museum. We got to take over that museum for a night. We got in there at about 9:30 in the evening, and we left at sunrise.”

The scene within the Amazon Studios film, based mostly on Casey McQuiston‘s 2021 novel Red, White and Royal Blue, takes place in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine) out of the blue left Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), son of the primary feminine President of the United States (Uma Thurman), with no rationalization. Alex flies to England to confront Henry and work out why the person he loves ghosted him.

When Alex arrives, he learns Henry is torturing himself as a result of he loves Alex however doesn’t imagine he can ever be an out-and-proud homosexual man with out turning his again on the royal household.

He takes Alex to the V and A, explaining that his late father introduced him within the early mornings to see the artwork earlier than the crowds and now he visits in the midst of the night time. “When I was younger, I’d dream of taking somebody I loved here, and he’d love it as much as I did. And we’d dance right here amidst all those statues. Just a daft pubescent fantasy,” Henry says.

Alex — who has a playlist for every little thing — pulls out his cellphone and performs “Can’t Help Falling in Love” by Perfume Genius. He and Henry take pleasure in a sluggish dance among the many sculptures.

Henry declares that he desires to make their relationship work. “When they write the history of my life, I want it to include you and my love for you,” he says.

Alex replies with probably the most memorable line from McQuiston’s Red, White and Royal Blue guide: “History, huh? Bet we could make some.”

For López, recreating the scene from the web page was unforgettable. “There’s just something magical about being at a museum after hours, long after all the other patrons have left,” the director informed Us. “To be able to create that beauty between those two characters visually and emotionally was very easy in some ways to do, because we were in the actual space that it was set in the book. And that kind of gave us goosebumps.”

He added that it whereas the story is all about Alex and Henry’s romance amongst these iconic areas, they weren’t really in a position to go to most of them. “We couldn’t shoot in the actual Buckingham Palace. We couldn’t shoot in the actual White House, of course — but we were able to shoot in the actual V and A in exactly the spot that Casey set that scene in,” he added. “And so that for us was pretty magical.”

Red, White and Royal Blue debuted Friday, August 11, on Prime Video.