‘Red, White and Royal Blue’ director on why Prince Henry is not on PrEP
Red, White and Royal Blue has shot to the top of the Amazon Prime streaming charts. It’s an adaptation of the 2019 novel by Casey McQuisto.The director bringing the tale to the screen is Matthew López, the Tony-award-winning playwright of The Inheritance.
It’s his first movie directorial offering, and he’s delighted with its success. He adapted the screenplay with Ted Malawer.In an interview with Variety, López talked at length about some of the changes he made to the story in transferring it to the screen.
He also revealed the amount of preparation that went into the movie’s sex scene.Red, White and Royal Blue follows the blossoming relationship between Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the First Son of the United States, and Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine), third in line to the British throne.Although it only has one sex scene between the pair, López recognized it was a pivotal part of the story.
He was very keen to get it right – even if it controversially earned the movie an R-rating.He noted that there is a lot more sex in the original novel.
