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British actor Nicholas Galitzine has stated that the give attention to his look has left him feeling like a “minimize of beef at a meat market,” including that he needs to be “taken critically as a performer.”
The 29-year-old actor, who seems reverse Anne Hathaway within the new romantic comedy “The Thought of You,” admitted that feedback about his appears to be like have made him really feel uncomfortable.
In an interview with GQ journal printed Wednesday, Galitzine responded to a query about how enjoying a personality who is taken into account handsome made him really feel.
He replied: “I feel an important factor to me is that I’m taken critically as a performer. I’m not gonna ask you to cry me a river right here, however it’s been tough being a part of a dialog that feels very very similar to I’m a minimize of beef at a meat market.”
He stated he acquired this sense not solely in the course of the casting course of however in different individuals’s reactions to his work.
“I feel that being my defining function is one thing I’m consistently frightened of,” he stated.
Within the new film, Galitzine, who additionally stars in “Mary & George” with Julianne Moore and in final 12 months’s “Pink, White and Royal Blue,” performs the lead singer of a well-liked boy band who embarks on an sudden romance with a single mom, performed by Hathaway, after assembly her at Coachella.
There was a lot hypothesis as as to if his position as Hayes Campbell, the singer in fictional boy band “August Moon,” is predicated on Harry Kinds.
He admitted that Kinds is “an apparent comparability,” however added: “I feel it’s crucial that we don’t draw an excessive amount of of a comparability to him as a result of [Styles] is an actual particular person, inside each the music trade and the movie trade.
“I feel we have to normalize [keeping them separate] versus drawing a direct parallel to somebody who already exists.”
In a current interview with V Magazine to advertise the film, Hathaway described how Galitzine was forged for the position.
She stated the auditions noticed actors select a track they’d play to get Hathaway’s character to bounce.
She stated of his selection: “I heard [the lead singer of Alabama Shakes] Brittany’s voice and I simply began smiling. And he [Galitzine] noticed me smile, so he relaxed, and we simply began dancing.”
Galitzine stated of the identical audition that their connection was “not like something [he] had ever skilled.”
“We have been flying. We have been tearing up with one another,” he instructed GQ.