If anyone wants to ask, Percy will say that he will stay over the Christmas holidays because he is Head Boy and has responsibilities. And he also needs to prepare for exams. But that's if anyone asks. In fact, he just wants to celebrate Christmas with his boyfriend. Perhaps Percy wouldn't sit down to study for his exams even once during the holidays.
If anyone wants to ask, Oliver will say that he will stay over the Christmas holidays because he capitan and he needs practice. And he also needs to prepare for match. But that's if anyone asks. In fact, he just wants to celebrate Christmas with his boyfriend. Perhaps Oliver wouldn't sit on his broom even once during the holidays.
They talk for so long Alex has to plug his phone in to keep the battery from dying. He rolls onto his side and listens, trails the back of his hand across the pillow next to him and imagines Henry lying opposite in his own bed, two parentheses enclosing 3,700 miles. He looks at his chewed-up cuticles and imagines Henry there under his fingers, speaking into only inches of distance. He imagines the way Henry's face would look in the bluish-gray dark. Maybe he would have a faint shadow of stubble on his jaw, waiting for a morning shave, or maybe the circles under his eyes would wash out in the low light.
Somehow, this is the same person who had Alex so convinced he didn't care about anything, who still had the rest of the world convinced he's a mild, unfettered Prince Charming. It's taken months to get here, the full realization of just how wrong he was.
"I miss you," Alex says before he can stop himself.
He instantly regrets it, but Henry says, "I miss you too.”
"The thing about sex with Henry is it’s never the same twice. Sometimes nothing gets him off faster than being talked back to, but other times they both want him to use every inch of authority in his blood, not to let Alex get there until he’s told, until he begs."
I’m sorry but heartstopper is really fucken funny to me because every morning local blorbo Nick Nelson sits there at school, copper hair perfectly coiffed, eyebrows manicured, shirt tighter than should be allowed on the premises and says: ‘I’m going to write with a fountain pen for no reason other than the aesthetic, then I’m going to roll in the mud with other boys while wearing tiny shorts, then I’m going to go home, put on cuffed jeans, and spend some quality time with my mother’
And Tao and Elle are like wow that is the straightest man I’ve ever seen in my life
For Matthew, this scene was an important one, but one that he felt needed a different energy than what is on the page.
"It is very similar and it's also simultaneously very different to the book which I think is just one way of describing this entire movie," he says. "Casey said to me after watching it for the second or third time, 'It's like there's my book, and then there's your movie and the two are very, very similar and also very different,' which is good because if the movie was so faithful to the book, it, I don't even think it would please the fans of the book.
"I know that's probably a controversial thing to say but it wouldn't have served the story very well." He continues: "I needed to observe the logic of a film and trust that I had internalized the emotional truths of the book and the Storming of Kensington in the book is a lot more chaotic and Alex is highly charged.
"When we were in rehearsals, and Taylor and Nick and I began to really delve into that scene, we realized quickly that if Alex came on that strong then Henry, given where he is mentally, would simply say, 'well, get out,' and kick Alex out. So we knew implicitly that we needed to do a different version of that scene, one in which Alex isn't at all certain of success.
"In the book, Alex is willing to burn down the castle in order to get what he wants, and although the scene actually uses a lot of dialogue from the book, our Alex in the film knows that if this doesn't work, their relationship is over. So he's a little more careful with Henry, more fearful, and Henry is more heartbroken, and those decisions really determined everything else that followed in the scene."
From Glamour:
Galitzine, meanwhile, says his most rewarding time on set came during the film's emotional climax, when Alex and Henry must decide if—and how—they're going to move forward in their relationship. “It's the emotional height of the movie in a lot of ways, and sometimes as an actor, you can very much get in your head about that,” he says. “But Taylor really was just so emotionally present that it helped me. We got to a vulnerable, beautiful space. Those kinds of moments are where you drift into a level of truth and sincerity that feels very real. That's what we're always aiming for.”
From I’ve Never Said this Before With Tommy DiDario:
ML: We had to break for lunch, and we haven't finished the scene and I was really, really worried that we were gonna come back from lunch and I would've lost them and never re-captured what was happening on set before lunch. And it was the pivotal part of the scene, the end where Alex makes an ultimatum to Henry. We got back on set and we started filming again and instantly in the first take, after lunch, Taylor started crying and Nick was facing away from him and he heard Taylor, and Nick started crying. The back half of that scene is so beautiful because they're doing such great work and I really had a difficult time cutting it because there was such beautiful, nuanced work from both of them. What's so remarkable about it is they had just had lunch, and they came right back into it and they were more dialled in, more in touch with each other than before. It was pretty remarkable. I have to say that was the moment I knew that whatever happened with this movie, those two actors would be fine in their careers.
Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) directed by Matthew López
Favourite smaller things part 2 (part 1):
1. Henry wiping sweat off of his hands before shaking hands with Alex
2.Henry saying he is an insomniac, but sleeps like a baby whenever he is with Alex
3. Alex chasing after Henry's lips
4. Alex's surprised "are we really doing this here" face
5. Alex letting henry fiddle with his ring
6.Crossing their hands almost simultaneously
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