Nicholas Galitzine said ‘something almost spiritual’ happened when he first auditioned to be the onscreen leading man of Anne Hathaway for Michael Showalter’s rom-com The Idea of You, which premieres May 2 on Amazon Prime Video.
In real life, the 29-year-old Red, White & Royal Blue actor and the 41-year-old Oscar winner have a 12-year age gap, but their characters Hayes Campbell and Solène Marchand have a 16-year age gap in the adaptation of Robinne Lee’s 2017 novel.
‘Someone came up with this idea that the actors doing this chemistry test should bring a song that they wanted to use essentially to convince Soléne to get up and dance with him. And again, [for] someone like me, who is not a dancer, this was incredibly intimidating,’ Nicholas recalled during the post-screening Q&A Saturday at SXSW.
‘But in all seriousness, I remember – these rooms for actors they can be extremely intimidating at times and extremely unnatural in a lot of ways – but there was something almost spiritual that kind of happened there where I felt this immediate connection to Annie, and we had a simpatico and a shared sense of humor and it was just very easy.’
Nicholas Galitzine said ‘something almost spiritual’ happened when he first auditioned to be the onscreen leading man of Anne Hathaway for Michael Showalter’s rom-com The Idea of You, which premieres May 2 on Amazon Prime Video
In real life, the 29-year-old Red, White & Royal Blue actor (L) and the 41-year-old Oscar winner (R) have a 12-year age gap, but their characters Hayes Campbell and Solène Marchand have a 16-year age gap in the adaptation of Robinne Lee’s 2017 novel
The Idea of You centers on a budding May-December romance between a divorced mother of a teenage girl and a famous boy bander, who cross paths at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA.
Solène gets a taste of a jet-setting, sexually-charged lifestyle while simultaneously being horrified about their portrayal in the tabloids, and the trailer included one shot of her crying to her teenage daughter about the backlash.
Anne recalled one moment on the Atlanta set in 2022 when they shot a swimming scene despite freezing temperatures.
‘At at one point we just looked at each other and we were holding on to each other for dear life for warmth,’ Hathaway – who was also a producer – recalled during the Q&A.
‘From that moment on – till the last moment some 20 hours later – I just looked at him and I was like, “I am in good hands on this one. I’ve got a great partner. We could not have landed better.” And I still feel that way.’
Galitzine and the Brooklyn-born former child star warmly embraced on the street outside The Paramount Theater in Austin, TX before the event.
In real life, Anne has two sons – Jonathan, turning 8 next Sunday; and Jack, 4 – from her 11-year marriage to James Banks Design co-creator Adam Shulman.
The half-Greek Englishman attended a ‘boy band boot camp’ to learn how to perform the song Dance Before We Walk as part of fictional boy band August Moon in the R-rated, 115-minute film inspired by ex-One Direction member Harry Styles.
![Nicholas recalled during the post-screening Q&A Saturday at SXSW: 'Someone came up with this idea that the actors doing this chemistry test should bring a song that they wanted to use essentially to convince Soléne to get up and dance with him. And again, [for] someone like me, who is not a dancer, this was incredibly intimidating'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/18/04/82582733-13208583-image-a-17_1710735766738.jpg "Nicholas Galitzine, 29, reveals the 'immediate connection' with Anne Hathaway, 41, on set of rom-com The Idea of You 6")
Nicholas recalled during the post-screening Q&A Saturday at SXSW: ‘Someone came up with this idea that the actors doing this chemistry test should bring a song that they wanted to use essentially to convince Soléne to get up and dance with him. And again, [for] someone like me, who is not a dancer, this was incredibly intimidating’
Galitzine continued: ‘But in all seriousness, I remember – these rooms for actors they can be extremely intimidating at times and extremely unnatural in a lot of ways – but there was something almost spiritual that kind of happened there where I felt this immediate connection to Annie, and we had a simpatico and a shared sense of humor and it was just very easy’
The Idea of You centers on a budding May-December romance between a divorced mother of a teenage girl and a famous boy bander, who cross paths at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA
Solène gets a taste of a jet-setting, sexually-charged lifestyle while simultaneously being horrified about their portrayal in the tabloids (pictured), and the trailer included one shot of her crying to her teenage daughter about the backlash
Anne recalled one moment on the Atlanta set in 2022 (pictured) when they shot a swimming scene despite freezing temperatures
Hathaway – who was also a producer – recalled: ‘At at one point we just looked at each other and we were holding on to each other for dear life for warmth. From that moment on – till the last moment some 20 hours later – I just looked at him and I was like, “I am in good hands on this one. I’ve got a great partner. We could not have landed better.” And I still feel that way’
The half-Greek Englishman and the Brooklyn-born former child star warmly embraced on the street outside The Paramount Theater in Austin, TX before the event
In real life, Anne has two sons – Jonathan, turning 8 next Sunday; and Jack, 4 – from her 11-year marriage to James Banks Design co-creator Adam Shulman
‘We didn’t perform in front of 80K people, but 500 supporting artists [were] there watching us so it was kind of like doing a mini-concert in a way,’ Nicholas told People on Saturday.
‘It’s like embodying the confidence of a pop star.’
American audiences can soon catch Galitzine as George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, in D.C. Moore’s period drama Mary & George premiering April 5 on Starz.
