Actor Nicholas Galitzine discusses new historical drama series “Mary and George”

Actor Nicholas Galitzine talks about the new series he stars in, “Mary and George,” which is based on the book “The King’s Assassin.” It premieres April 5 on Starz.
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[@arasilky]

So glad Nicholas is going all in for this press tour. Great seeing him getting more exposure and attention, as he deserves! ❤

[@PosthumousAddress]

Totally, I knew they wouldn't do the full court press until it was about to release on Starz (and if it does really well, which I think it should... I hope it goes viral) then they will do more press. Maybe even Emmy buzz.

[@B.B-Ghost]

Oh Nicholas is so famous now, like HE deserves it! It’s due. I love you Mr Galitzine

[@rjcarter2904]

Nick is one of the best young actors of our day. He's amazing (and gorgeous).

[@Go71208]

Nicholas is such a great expressive actor and he deserves all the attention and many awards for his brilliant acting! "Mary and George" is so great! And I can't wait to see Nick and Anne in "The Idea of you"

[@ELEKTRARE]

He is very attractive, handsome & mysterious ❤❤😊

[@x-men69-96]

He is my forever Prince. I mean Nicolas. So handsome. So charming

[@meandyou00]

Mary and George and The idea of you. I'm excited for him❤

[@ItsAutoMatixx]

this show is INCREDIBLE

[@nicola646]

I am so happy he's everywhere now ❤ Amazing actor with so much range. He's soooo handsome too of course 😍 I had to rewatch Mary and George coz he and his fashion were way too distracting on the first watch. 😂

[@An262.]

The show was incredible and so was his and Julianne's acting! I love to see him finally getting the recognition he deserves, it's awesome. Can't wait to see him in other roles

[@kathyjohnsonkidd3865]

His incredible personality makes him so special!

[@juliabecker8355]

Humble and sovereign in the interview, and a breathtaking talent on screen. Hope for great characters for him to play, he's exactly where he belongs!

[@louisacromhout894]

Brilliant versatile actor 🎉

[@juankpastor6291]

LOVE HIM!

[@Dpageantbuff]

He's so amazing

[@suelijakutis]

perfect work you are wonderful 👏👏❤️❤️

[@danielbucket9772]

I love Nicholas specifically in gay characters ❤😊

[@ryanscottlogan8459]

Nick is so cute!

[@fireboybx]

Future Oscar nominee right there

[@miamiplatja8219]

Nick ist'ne interresante Multitalentierte person. Er ist einfach grossartig. Glückwunsch für die Zukunft!

[@sebastiankinnunen5549]

❤Nicholas will be huge star❤Legend in the making❤ love from Finland

[@musicoldsoul]

Nicky ❤❤❤

[@TikiHi77]

Looking for this show!

[@hsimpson6581]

The thing I love the most about Nick is he’s everybody’s sexual interest lol❤

[@wilmacrescente3061]

Stiff interviewers and a little condescending by the middle guy. Thank god he is professional and rose to the occasion 🥰

[@rickbarger2279]

Sad that the interview didn't at least mention his performance in Red, White and Royal Blue. But following up with the two actresses he has says much about his talent. I think putting away rugby might've been the best call.

[@Belaugh]

Especially in view of the fact that at 29 his career would be almost over rather than heading onwards and upwards. And that face would be battered and broken.

[@AndriaBieberDesigns]

Nicholas is so gorgeous

[@rachelmarkham6286]

He is the new "it" guy. 3 movies and a mini-series in 9 months. Wow.

[@bendjer8441]

My London boy❤so charming

[@K_A421]

Who is the twit anchor interviewing Nicholas?! He can’t even say, Villiers name correctly.🙄 That’s called an interview with Nicholas? NO! Nicholas, you’re a great actor. It’s a Great movie! Well Done! 👏🏼 The Stuart’s - Stewart’s Our my family ♥️

[@chrislee6076]

I just visualized him as the perfect young Superman

[@nathelondon3719]

British men are so handsome and the accent….wow. James Bond next.

[@Belaugh]

There are some people out here vocalising just that hope - a young new Bond for a new generation. Too often the casting of Bond is too tall dark and handsome, too old too predictable. A Galitzine would ace it. Open up the role, bring in intelligence and class.

[@mygetawayart]

I wonder if James Gunn would be interested in offering him the role of Nightwing...he'd be perfect for it

[@keithss67]

Funny funny, but the house being shown in the background is grimsthorpe castle. It wasn’t built till about 100 years after all these people were dead and buried

[@Belaugh]

No, but it was there in the guise of a French castle/chateau, and French taste at the time was always far in advance of the British, so despite the timeline actuality, the use of Grimsthorpe works.

[@dharashah4746]

Wow he is so handsome i wish partner like such 😍

[@raymonds6227]

What’s with the dark haired interviewer’s approach to this interview? Obviously, he has issues with the subject matter especially when he attempted to sway the interview towards Nicholas’ next heterosexual project with Anne Hathaway to avoid the homoerotic content of Mary and George.

[@raymondrayos7942]

Mary and George, Netflix please.

[@Amlajuice995]

Most uptight interviewers ever , Nicholas did a good job but these folks really ruined the whole interviewing experience…..

[@rjcarter2904]

The interviewers were a bit staged, don't you think? Nick is a free-flowing guy, and they missed the mark.

[@Belaugh]

Poor interviewers more interested in themselves. And he was very professional not to correct how they pronounced 'Villiers.'

[@Amlajuice995]

@@rjcarter2904 agreed

[@Amlajuice995]

@@Belaugh red flags

[@stevengreen198]

Such a shame the interviewer didn't take time to learn how to pronounce the surname of the person being portrayed correctly.

[@TG-yk7qy]

I think you will give Brad Pitt a run for his money. You're a good looking young man and a great actor.

[@yellowleaf28]

Why do they sound like they’re yelling? No speakers for the audience?

[@benfisher1376]

It's not surprising that he's never heard of the Duke of Buckingham (George Villiers)sadly. I bet most kids these days dont read The Three musketeers etc and English history is sadly not taught so much in schools now. But he's clearly a very middle class bloke, who must have gone to good schools. Worrying.

[@frederickcombs8661]

Those CBS guys were so weird in their Pee Wee Herman suits... creepy.

[@l.l3007]

Yes as u can see, boy is not a morning person 😂

[@jx9936]

Nicholas is such a gorgeous man, head to toe perfection❤!!

[@adma8D]

These interviewers are giving nothing 😅

[@НадеждаМ-р3з]

Актер он средний, но чем-то притягивает, смотреть на него приятно. И конечно очень красивый парень.

[@mir_1989]

No es mediocre ,es fenomenal

[@ivanb4816]

I mean, is he really from the russian House of Galitzin , aristocratic family?

[@JoasiaCyngot]

Its not historical drama its about deviants

[@theronaldophotography4971]

Sorry, but why is this a boring interview? its already a week ago and it didn't even get to a hundred thousand views...Where are the Nicholas Galitzine fans!!?

[@Belaugh]

Probably watching far better interviews elsewhere.

[@sidsid6380]

He is hard not to watch

[@Belaugh]

How well mannered to not correct such a weird pronunciation of Villiers. Galitzine aces such poor interviewing.

[@4nnette636]

Was it mispronounced? It sounded right to me, but I could be wrong. But at least they got Nick's name right 🥳It's a bit of a shame that it's so often done wrong that you notice it when it's done right 😬

[@Belaugh]

@@4nnette636 Villiers is pronounced just as you would expect - three simple syllables, Vill - ee - ers. The young lady who presented the item got it right, so the link man should have. However, there was an English actor, a descendant, called James Villiers, who pronounced it minus the 'i' so as Vill - ers just two syllables. So this presumably was how the family said it.

[@4nnette636]

@@Belaugh Ah ok, thanks for the explanation 👍🏼 But could it also be that the pronunciation has changed over time, less French and more English? I see American surnames that have a 100% German origin but are now pronounced very differently in English. So perhaps Villiers has also undergone a change? But that's just a speculation, actually I have no idea 🙃

[@Belaugh]

@@4nnette636 There are many strange pronunciations due to English names coming from so many various roots and affected by local pronunciations. Coke, is Mary and George, is pronounced locally (the family seat is Holkham Hall in Norfolk, where the late Queen had a beach hut, and where the cavalry horses go for their holidays) as Cook. I used to have work contacts in the one village called Piguilliam - a name I had never come across before or since. The two families were not related, and both pronounced it differently - one as you would expect - Pig-William - and the other Pea- gui-lee-am. I used to have terrible trouble remembering which was which, as both got very annoyed when people got it wrong!

[@pierrecaillouaubineau]

I looked a very littel moment of this film. It is too heavy for me. I am kid who is 71 years ! I prefer romances .

[@SandraMilovici]

In all movies a SEDUCER. You have good looks and directors use it. . So interesting...Let is see what you will get in your ...40s😂😂😂

[@venusmaria85]

|'m sure he'll look even better in his 40s

[@Lja77613]

He‘ll be hot af what are you talking about..

[@Belaugh]

He will get even more work, he is not a pretty boy actor with a short shelf life, he is here for the journey. Working on new projects writing scripts and optioning new work. An amazing and rare talent, and still barely scratched the surface.

[@SandraMilovici]

@@Lja77613 for NOW he is good looking and film directors use his sex-appeal. I bet when his good looks fades away so will his appearances...Happy Easter

[@justinwilliams7290]

Very 'serendipitous' that Harry Styles is mentioned since thats who physically reminds me of George Villiers (probably the hairline). Would have been interesting to perhaps see him in this role instead of Nick. I think Harry's body type is more in line with 17th century people than the uber tall Nicholas.

[@Belaugh]

I think you are thinking of the uber tall Jacob Elordi, who is 6'5" Galitzine is six foot. And the role of Villiers would have been beyond Harry Styles' reach. It demands many skills, from horse riding to fencing to dancing to playing the viol da gamba. Plus Villiers was always described as beautiful.

[@justinwilliams7290]

@@Belaugh Nicholas didnt know how to fence, ride or play the...viola until this was filmed. I'm sure Harry could have learned those things too. Regarding how Villiers were described... he can be described however you want but the portraits certainly depict a far more Harry Styles esque face than Nicholas, beautiful by early 17th century standards.

[@Belaugh]

@@justinwilliams7290 Yes, of course. He should also have had red hair and a Van Dyck beard if the portraits are anything to go by, but life is what it is. But you cannot get actors off a supermarket shelf, and ideas of beauty change over the years, so a modern George had to meet a modern ideal of beauty. Galitzine could indeed ride before M&G (see Cinderella, RWARB etc) He has said he needed to learn the viola da gamba, (but could already play guitar and piano); and the learning to fence would have been easier with his martial art skills. And perhaps a shout out for Tony Curran should be appropriate, whose similarity to James VI/I is uncanny.

[@justinwilliams7290]

@@Belaugh I don't think the modern beauty standard HAS to be met.

[@brober]

Rugby/football/baseball/basketball injury and out of nowhere he becomes an actor. Despite audition for roles since he was 10yo. Where have we heard this "fairy tale" before?

[@Belaugh]

Rugby injury. After an intended career with one of the UK's top professional clubs, Harlequins. And 'out of nowhere' became an actor because he was spotted by one of the UK's top agents in an amateur show at the Edinburgh Festival, and his first professional audition won him a lead role (The Beat Beneath My Feet). At 19, not 10. Well documented and true story. Cliches only become cliches because they happen.

[@brober]

If his publicists says so😂.@@Belaugh

[@dimmie6344]

He didn't audition since he was 10yra old. He audition for 10 years ( since he was 19 years) till he got recognition at age 29.

[@Belaugh]

@@brober No, history says so. I have been following his career throughout the past ten years, and if you would care to do some research you would see that is accurate. It is easy to check, and there is no reason to lie.

[@splinterbyrd]

Pleasant enough lad, but... can he act?

[@canoeman621]

Take the time to learn how to correctly pronounce the French before you embark on an interview.

[@MP-lq3xx]

awkward

[@thezoostation]

Wouldn't be a bad thing if he left those roles up to queer guys, not straight dudes

[@audreycraig9433]

Even famous gay directors like Luca Guadagnino keeps casting straight male actors in gay roles.

[@magloyd4907]

He's quite good looking but his performances are extremely dull. None of the charisma of the real Villiers.

[@Vince-um5nq]

Agreed. Very attractive but think he’s a bad actor

[@deadpoetstodd]

completely disagree.

[@Belaugh]

If he doesn't have charisma how come he had 5 million followers on Instagram - even before RWARB? And that those in the know professionally have been tipping him for awards for years (when the right role comes along) and Gold Derby are tipping him for Emmy nomination at least?

[@audreycraig9433]

@@Vince-um5nqboth Oscar winning Julianne Moore and Anne Hathaway are singing praises about his acting.