‘Red, White and Royal Blue’ director on why Prince Henry is not on PrEP

Taylor Zakhar Perez (Alex), and Nicholas Galitzine (Prince Henry) in ‘Red, White and Royal Blue’
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Since its release last week, gay rom-com 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.

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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…

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