Taylor take Alex's role so serious, I was reading a interview that he gave and boy... he read the book, watch western shows to get the spirit, talk to his friends and even he's mom about their perspective on the book. He's know it's a movie about romance but also about a young men learning about his on sexuality, his fears, learning to love and to be loved... He is the perfect as Alex on a screen can get.
In all the pre-conducted interviews I've read about Taylor and Nicholas doing the intimate scenes, they always tried to make the other laugh to keep them from getting too in their own heads about what they were doing and stay comfortable with each other.
With that in mind, I am almost 100% sure that this moment was them trying to make each other laugh:
Maybe Taylor was scripted to help him with the shirt, but I feel like the comment about the buttons wasn't there initially, cause Nicholas' grin looks like he genuinely thinks it's funny, rather than just the giddy laughs and smiles they do in other scenes when they're excited.
However, I wonder how much of that was them just getting the giggles and it working for their characters. They are adorable bastards lmfao
Gifs courtesy of @phakphumm who I’m crediting this way cause I couldn’t find the gifs through scrolling so I had to copy-paste them but that removes the original poster’s name for some reason
when alec lightwood said: and when one day people look back on me and what my life meant, I don’t want them to say, ‘Alec Lightwood fought in the Dark War’ or even ‘Alec Lightwood was Consul once.’ I want them to think, ‘Alec Lightwood loved one man so much he changed the world for him’.
and when prince henry said: because when they write the history of my life, I want it to include you and my love for you