Nicholas Galitzine had to film THIS MANY sex scenes in a day – and then he dressed in drag
Nicholas Galitzine (who’s starred in a jam-packed slate of projects like Red, White & Royal Blue and Bottoms) has certifiably mastered the art… of pretending to have sex.The 29-year-old actor has been inescapable over the past year, wooing us as the newly-out Prince of England, stealing every scene as a whiny and homoerotic high-school jock, and soon, fulfilling our Anne Hathaway’s Harry Style fantasies in The Idea of You.
Still, his turn in historical drama Mary & George (which premieres on Starz this Friday) might just be his most sexed-up role yet.Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.The series, based on a rumored-to-be-true story, stars Galitzine as George Villers –– the eventual Duke of Buckingham –– who sleeps his way to the top under the instruction of his mother Mary (Julianne Moore), eventually becoming King James I’s go-to lover.And if you assumed the production was going to just gloss over all the male-on-male lovemaking, you’d be wrong.
In fact, Galitzine told Entertainment Weeklythat he shot a whopping four sex scenes in one day.“I was going from room to room meeting strangers and saying, ‘Hi, I am Nick, nice to meet you.
Okay, this is the position we’re going to be in,'” he explained. (Now we fully understand why he was compelled to “formally apologize” for breaking the internet with the trailer’s sheer horniness.)A post shared by Nicholas Galitzine (@nicholasgalitzine)Thanks to the show’s intimacy coordinator, Galitzine described filming the saucy sequences as “incredibly empowering,” helping him tap into his character’s “sense of power.” Although that’s not to say he found it overly gratuitous.
