Some fun facts. The bicep kiss on the lake of Henry on Alex’s bicep was improv. They also shot that scene without the intimacy coordinator present. The scene under water was a lighting test, but they loved the result so much they decided to use it. The scene in Paris where Alex is helping Henry with his shirt was also improv. Nick/Henry had trouble getting the button undone so Taylor/Alex jumped in to help. The scene of them lying in bed together after the museum with Alex holding Henry’s wrist was not in the script, but they felt it fitted, so they filmed it. Also something I noticed, if you look closely you see Taylor/Alex fidgeting a lot with his hands, as someone told me, it’s ADHD stimming. In the book, Alex is later diagnosed with ADHD and Taylor has read the book 7 to 8 times by now, so it was great to see him adding that little detail. Also you already saw Stephen Fry, Thomas Flynn aka Prince Phillip the older brother of Henry also identifies as Queer so the two homophobic characters in the movie are played by Queer actors. Which is a great move of Matthew the writer/director. LOL
This is EXACTLY the kind of trivia/behind the scenes info I really value and enjoy, so thank you very much!! I knew about Stephen Fry (but not about Thomas Flynn), and I agree that was a clever casting move.
@@DavidvsFilm also, not entirely sure if it’s true, but I saw someone mention that Henry kissing alex’s shoulder after Henry joins him in New York, where Alex talks about his future, was apparently also improv from Nick’ side. Also the dedication at the end for Kristy is for Taylor’s eldest sister who died of colorectal cancer June last year, before the movie premiered, she was his biggest fan and was looking forward seeing her little brother’s first leading role. Amazon held a special screening for the entire family and they took a pic of them all posing in front of the big screen with “For Kristy” on it. Also on the table in the oval office there are family photos. When Taylor’s dog Jack died during filming, the day before they did the big cake scene, Matthew the writer and director asked Taylor if it was okay to add a pic of jack on the table. So if you look closely you can see a photo of Taylor with Jack on the table, plus some real life child photos of Taylor. You can see the pictures better if you go to Matthews instagram, he just posted a new photo of him in the oval office which gives a good look at the photos on the table. His insta is @matthewmichaellopez
@@DutchTZPfan There are also two pictures of Nick as a child in the background. One is of him and his father, on the table behind him when he's ignoring Alex's phone call during the meeting with Philip and Bea. The second one is of him and his mother, I think, which is on a side table in one shot. Not sure which one, though.
@@DutchTZPfan One minor correction, one that I hesitate to make given your obvious expertise on the matter, is that Henry's kissing Alex's shoulder (the "I'm learning" kiss) wasn't in NY but in Paris after their first real time together. Thanks for bringing up the improv nature of a few details, which only adds to the chemistry experienced and shown by these two amazing actors.
@@DutchTZPfan Taylor does a featurette on a guide to the Oval Office, and he mentions his late sister and his late dog in that. Worth seeking out and on Prime. Also the scene where Zhara finds them in bed together was mostly improv; as Matthew Lopez was on his first film, after an award winning career in theatre, he was always open to encouraging the actors to improvise to present their characters richer and deeper. Galitzine always does a great deal of improv, whatever project he is working on. Much of the love scenes with Tony Curran (James) in Mary and George had a great deal of improv between the two, action and dialogue, and the much loved Dance Hall Days scene in The Idea Of You, from chicken nuggets to choreography, was Galitzine's idea.
The director and the books author are writing the sequel. So it should be good. The author has a cameo. She's the woman sitting on the floor with a laptop, when Uma is drafting her response if she had lost. Nicholas Galitzine plays a lot of gay roles. Handsome Devil is a good one he's in. Also in Mary & George on Starz. He was also in the Craft Legacy movie. Taylor was in Kissing Booth 2 & 3. This is his first starring or leading man role. He dedicates his role to his sister who died before she could see RW&RB.
It took me half way through the movie to realize Nicholas Galatzine is the same actor from Purple Hearts. And since in Bottoms and The Idea of You. The boy has range!
You should watch a very Young Nicholas Galitzine with Luke Perry in the Beat Beneath My Feet. He's awesome in Mary and George with Julianne Moore and Tony Curran too
Call me a romantic, but I genuinely loved this movie; this along with Heartstopper and Young Royals helped me come to terms with my bisexuality. I’ve read the book, the collection edition, and I’ve seen the deleted scenes which are amazing. I’m so excited for the sequel that’s coming! Now all we need is a Broadway-West End bound musical. Just saying… 🇺🇸🇬🇧🏳️🌈❤️🤍💙🩷💜💙
Oh you’re right- a stage production would be great! This is the kind of book/movie that easily lends itself to that type of adaptation. And I think it’s GREAT that this movie and those shows helped you define yourself. I know everyone is different in how they process things, but I’ve turned to tv and movies too in the past looking for relatability. Very happy for you!!! ♥️
The height thing through the movie is an inside joke. In the book, Alex is shorter then Henry. The actors ended up being practically the same height with Taylor aka Alex being a bit taller.
@@DavidvsFilmyeah, in the book Henry is 4 inches taller than Alex... But in the movie Alex is like an inch or two taller than Henry... Alex also wears glasses in the book... I'm kind of upset that they didn't adapt that into the show... it's VERY easy to get fake glasses if the actor doesn't actually need them. But I suppose they did have a relatively small budget for this movie... So maybe they couldn't fit it in.
@@AnxietyRat Taylor actually wears glasses in real life, there is a video of him showing off his new prescription glasses. I think if I remember right, he’s far sighted.
@@DutchTZPfan oh that's interesting! I don't follow him on any social medias so that might be why I didn't know that... Really really strange that they didn't adapt Alex having glasses then... I really can't think of a reason for why they didn't. I mean it is a relatively small detail about the character, for sure. but it's something that could have easily been done... That would have been a point towards them faithfully adapting the source material.
TZP is 6'2", Galitzine is 6'. In the book Alex is meant to be shorter, but that fact turned into an in joke between everyone involved. After seeing literally hundreds of actors to play Alex before getting to TZP, finding the right chemistry was more important than that detail of physicality.
Yay!!!! The day has arrived! Lol. Thanks for the fellow Texan support! 🤠 And you KNOW Uma should have picked up that phone and said, “We’re gonna need some Whataburger..” instead!
Are you kidding me? You've seen how slow I am getting around to good movies lol. It shouldn't surprise you at all that it took me this long :) But it was a really good movie right??
Great reaction David ! First time I hear some kind of confirmation that a sequel is forthcoming !! Yeah ! Taylor is indeed genuine and believable. As for Nicholas Galitzine, he was born to play a prince, gay or straight 😆. Although his preference seems to be for the ladies, he’s played a number of confused/bi/gay/roles. I welcome this openness to diversity from actors/actresses who see same sex attraction as something normal (if less frequent). Love is love…❤
Great movie. Fun reaction. Nicholas is on fire right now. He was in...The idea of you. Bottoms. Purple Hearts. Mary and George on Starz. Phenomenal and based on a true story. He and the king were lovers. Sequel, hopefully, end of next year. I would definitely recommend more of his movies.
Thank you so much!! I saw his face on the promos for Mary and George (still haven't seen that series, but hats off to the marketing person because I remember seeing ads EVERYWHERE in the lead up to its premiere), and of course I knew about this movie. :)
Ah! Thank you, Lynne! You hit on the other thing (besides the accent) that I wanted to talk more about. Exactly!! re: Minnesota. And what I specifically meant about Texas and "that would never happen", is that if you look at the US electoral map in the corner, they have Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota all going Republican. Unless this is light years of political shifting in the future, ain't know way TEXAS is that close if all those states are in the red.
@@DavidvsFilmyes, exactly! When I saw that map, I thought, "well this movie is definitely fiction!" I realize they did it for dramatic effect so that Texas going blue would be the tipping point that won the election point, but if it were a real election that got Texas to flip - especially as an incumbent - she probably would have won in a landslide and most of that electoral map would have been blue.
@@DavidvsFilm and here I am living in Arizona which is turning more blue, its actually considered purple now and is a battleground state. Historically Arizona has always ran red but the last 2 elections majority vote went to democrats. I guess it helps that some of our state governors that were well liked were democrats.
@@DavidvsFilm I’m guessing they were just going by number of electoral votes, rather than actually being realistic which states might go red vs blue. But it bugged me about MN. In 1984, Reagan vs Mondale, every state was red, except Minnesota. Beto seems to be doing good work in Texas. It’s close to purple! lol
@@lynnhettrick7588yeah, the author of this novel wrote it in response to Trump winning... So it's absolutely fantasy America and fantasy England, if women were running the countries. It's not MEANT to be realistic ... I mean I think the politics is more realistic in the book than it is in the movie mainly just because it goes into more depth...but still...it's VERY much an idealistic fantasy version of those two countries.... Written during a time when a LOT of queer people were grieving a little bit. And angry. So yeah, the author was trying to soothe their own upset with this book and subsequent movie. And in turn, it's soothed a lot of other lgbtq+ people.
Great reaction! I’m also in love with Taylor Zakhar Perez now. 😂 I loved this book so much and Taylor brought such warmth and humor and vulnerability to Alex, I’m completely enamored with his performance. I am so looking forward seeing him in more roles in the future! Everyone was great in the film, including all of the supporting cast. The chemistry between Nick and Taylor was insane. So excited there’s going to be a sequel!
Hey!! I love that there's still people reacting to rwrb! Thank you!! 🙌🏽 It was a lovely reaction, and it was good to see you enjoyed it. It's definitely a feel-good movie!
This was so enjoyable. I laughed at so many comments and observations. the one that I thought was so on point was "you know if Beatrice looks this depressed, it's not good!" I so agree! Thanks for a great video! I'm a new subscriber.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't bother suggesting this one to you because I figured you'd already seen it. Happy surprise! I miss Marc for this one though...
Nope! Saved it since I first heard about it for the channel one day :) Yeah I would have loved for him to do this one too, but his family was visiting when I did this one, and they were at our nephew’s baseball tournament.
@DavidvsFilm I suppose that is a decent reason for not recording a reaction video... It's not like this movie, but if you're looking for an underrated movie, "Nothing to Lose" is a good one.
Very good cast. Love Uma and Steven Fry. Very well shot. I'm with you. I never thought I would see this level of gay romance movie. Brave of Amazon to do in this age of cancel culture. Recently, Amazon has had some of my favorite shows.
@@DavidvsFilm Thank you! Love your reactions as well as your husband's. One of the best shows I've seen this year is Fallout on Amazon. Sci-fi dystopian show with some great dark humor. Only 8 episodes. Also love The Boys, dark superhero show. Into their 4th season with one more before the end. Very gory and sexually explicit, cringy. But the core is about the people and their issues. And then there is The Legend of Vox Machina - 2 seasons animated fantasy. Hazbin Hotel - animated, silly, musical.
I love that it's a romcom. Media is over-saturated with cis- het romcoms, so it's honestly refreshing to see LGBT characters in romcoms for a change. Even when it's cheesy and a little formulaic, because the world deserves this representation! I might actually enjoy the genre now that the narratives are opening up to real human diversity.
@@DavidvsFilm Pride is based on a real event, when a gay community gave support to a mining community at the time of the miner's strike in the UK. A well cast and well written movie, and the inimitable Andrew Scott is one of the leads.
Hmm well a lot of England IS beautiful I’ll give you that….if you can catch the….3 days of nice weather we have a year….in the countryside…in the day time…not when football is on….maybe if we have a change of government on Thursday see how that goes……………but don’t let me burst your bubble 😂😂😂😂
@@JeM130177 hahaha yes- I definitely meant just transport me to those country estates with the gardens and where no one knows what day it is. Not cold London fog on a questionable street. 😉
13:40 I’m from Texas and that was not a Texas accent. She sounds like a stereo type of Texas. North, south, east, west, and central Texas all have different accents. They all sound Texan but none sound like Uma 😂
Thank you!! And YES I DID! I am the worst at remembering to check for those (unless it's Marvel). But thanks to you, I've since gone back and watched. :)
The film was shot entirely in London. Even the 'Austin house' and the family holiday home. The museum scenes were actually filmed in the real Victoria And Albert Museum in London, and that is exactly how that gallery looks.
Oh yeah?? Well turns out I remembered her from The Good Wife. She was much younger though, so I couldn't place her at first. (and not giving her good hair is unforgivable, btw!)
@@DavidvsFilm no, he did some things but not like that.. and also they didnt include other importan character like alex sister that is really important in the book but movies are like this.. both movie and book are great on its own but i would not really compare them so much 🙂
@@katthie230I think you’re confused. I’ve read the book six times. Miguel is not in the book at all whatsoever. He’s a completely new character created for the film.
Ok I'm glad you mentioned this so that we could talk.. here is the evolution of Uma's accent for me.. At first, I did not care for it, At all. It was completely not needed, and it just distracted me. Then, I kind of got used to it. Started to not really notice it as much. By the time I was editing the movie for the reaction, I had already come to accept it and even kind of like it ok. Weirdest thing ever.
You are right about HEB of course. But they probably shop at Central Market Also, Uma’s accent did require a fair amount of suspension of disbelief. It’s a reasonable attempt at a southern accent, but *not* a specifically Texas accent
@@mariahdaley4773 Haha Central Market, true, true. Yeah my first guesses at her accent were Southern also. She has the Texas twang in there too, but the softness of her tone is what makes it sound more Southern to me. Great comment thank you!!
I'm not a native English speaker so I can't recognize accents easily. What I noticed about Uma Thurman's accent was that in some scenes it doesn't sound as intense as others (Her first scene vs Alex coming out to her).
@@godabandonedthistimeline Yeah, I know what you mean. Ultimately I’m just going to classify it as a Mrs. Doubtfire situation- completely lovable character even though her accent is all over the place.
