RED, WHITE AND ROYAL BLUE Has Me SCREAMING, SHAKING, CRYING **reaction/commentary**

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[@mdgraystone]

It’s the chemistry that made the story so great. The casting was brilliant. 100%

[@clarasundqvist6013]

"my life is the crown and yours is politics and i won't trade one prison for another" is a line that goes so unbeliavably hard, and nicholas' delivery of it is so good

[@rxbeccarose]

nicholas' acting was next level in this movie

[@codyraystrimple5659]

“I got out of the age range (the book) was targeted to,” made me cackle bc it is definitely not for the youngins. 😂

[@SmolBobisagoodcat]

Me who read the book in sixth grade: …

[@user-oh9zn3fn9m]

the book is an adult romance book, what was she talking about 😭

[@supercalime]

You talked a bit about the budget and while agree that they were quite ambitious, we gotta remember that it’s not necessarily the filmmakers’ fault that they didn’t get enough money to accomplish what they wanted. Amazon and the producers are guilty of that. The director had to look for investors himself because the studio wasn’t giving them the money they deserved

[@shaungerald23]

Hopefully they'll change their minds for the sequel. If they decide to go through with one.

[@supercalime]

@@shaungerald23 I doubt there will be a sequel though. The author, as of now, only writes stand alone books and this one specially ends in the most fairy tale, perfect ending way. I don’t see the point of adding conflict to this story. But that’s just me. I wouldn’t be opposed to a sequel though haha

[@Sherdelune]

@@supercalime There is a new Collector's Edition of the book that has a new chapter from Henry's POV that covers the next five years. So there is material that could be used for a sequel.

[@supercalime]

@@Sherdelune bold of you to assume I don’t know abou the Henry pov chapter lol. Also, sure. But it’s more like fan service than actual content. There isn’t any conflict in there. It just shows their future. I guess I just don’t enjoy sequels to stories that had their “happily ever after”

[@itsarlo]

@@supercalime funny reading this after the sequel was announced :D

[@ImLucyguesswhereiamfrom]

Nicholas is British, His father is an entrepreneur who descends from Russian nobility and his mother is Greek-American.

[@bellajothomas945]

OK I actually love watching the shot of him, holding his hand while they’re “making love😂” simply, because if you pay close attention, Henrys very hesitant about holding Alex’s hand through out the movie and they were a few times, where he actually allows it. Which I think adds to the movie and makes sense as to why they focused on that shot as long as they did. I love this movie and I’ve only see it once but it’s such a good movie!! fantastic job!

[@amandasmith8108]

Great spot! I agree. The more I watch it...and I've watched it A LOT... the more I see and realise there are so many subtle subtexts/metaphors to be found. I think that's one of the things that keeps so many people from going back to it again and again...and AGAIN!

[@videohistory722]

The slimeball ex doesnt even exist in the book. It was his mom's Republican opponent that did it in a bid to hurt her chances for reelection.

[@hannahhaidinger763]

Im sooo sad that they had to cut raffael luna. He was such an interesting character

[@MatthewC23498z]

I have rewatched this movie so many times it's unhealthy but it's AMAZING! I watched it the first time and immediately went out and bought the book, highly recommend it. The movie does justice to the source but the book is just 100% better. Honestly love both the book and movie so much and if you have the opportunity and time I definitely recommend picking up the book! Go for the collectors edition if you can as it has a bonus epilogue chapter from Henry's perspective 💙

[@MaryCrum]

The book is amazing. It will give you all the feels.

[@markballard9942]

I read the book first and still enjoyed the movie tremendously. I think they did a tremendous job of adapting it. I would also highly recommend the Audible version of the book.

[@johnnehrich9601]

When Amy says "it was a good thing he was in a hospital" referring to the fireworks kid, she winks, although it is very quick.

[@uwbadger79]

Regarding the tent for the NY's party. They actually have used tents on the White House grounds for State dinners occasionally. The State dining room in the WH isn't huge. Also there are three color-themed rooms in the WH. The Red Room, Green Room and Blue Room.

[@rxbeccarose]

oooh okay thats interesting to know

[@mollybronson2683]

And in the book, I’m pretty sure the party was in the White House. There was no tent.

[@AnxietyRat]

You will like "The Waterloo letters" name for the emails significantly more when you read the book and find out exactly WHY they're calling it The Waterloo Letters. Henry says something very specific, one time, it's not even something that gets repeatedly a couple times ...and they clung on to that for some reason and made it the title of the collection of letters lmao. Don't get me wrong... Henry said something EXTREMELY romantic.... But it was just the one email that it was said in. But yeah, even though that email was not said in the movie... the movie kind of paid homage to that by naming the children's hospital Waterloo hospital or somthing like that... So they tried to make it work even if they weren't able to put that email in the movie.

[@Meleninmoneal03]

The emails chapter is my favorite part of the book. Henry and Alex say some of the most romantic stuff I’ve ever read

[@AnxietyRat]

@@Meleninmoneal03 100% I was kind of upset that they didn't really get to put many of the emails into the movie ...they weren't even able to add any of the historic queer quotes at the end of the emails.... They were peak romance and banter, IMO. So good... I mean don't get me wrong the movie was able to convey Henry being super duper romantic but it wasn't enough of the emails, ya know? But I understand that there was a time constraint...just sucks a bit it wasn't included more as the emails were a decently big thing in the book... It was definitely a focus in the book....that wasn't able to be fleshed out as fully in movie.

[@amandasmith8108]

Wow!! Well spotted!! I loved the reference in the book...so heart rendingly beautiful...but I missed the naming of the hospital as a nod and validation of why they were called that in the film. Brilliant. Soooo many subtleties!! ❤

[@amelievonvieregge5066]

The emails is really the only thing I seriously miss from the book as they also just show their development and love ❤

[@Larry.cupcaks]

It's almost like Casey wrote the charactor for them! It's like, if you shake the book really hard, they will fall out of the pages😄

[@videohistory722]

It was 2 turkeys, and Alex INSISTED on putting them in his room, and he was calling Henry because it turned out he's scared of them.

[@Aynabg93]

That the king is kind of homophobic is a bit funny since the guy playing the king is gay himself and married to a younger guy. Stephen Fry is funny :)

[@AnxietyRat]

So is the actor who plays Prince Phillip... It's kind of funny how the movies two homophobes are both played by gay men.

[@Aynabg93]

@@AnxietyRat Really? I didn't know that.

[@AnxietyRat]

@@Aynabg93 yeah, he did an interview about being a queer actor after this movie came out, I think.

[@Notachanze]

Pretty sure Nick filmed Bottoms right before this and he was an American Football quarterback 😅

[@rxbeccarose]

that would explain him maybe slipping into an american accent here and there :')

[@GiuliaLoSurdo]

Nick also did Purple Hearts (netflix) right before this, and he played an american aswell

[@donabaypro6782]

NDA is non-disclosure agreement. That means if you say anything about what happens they can take you to court. A lot of jobs require these.

[@bewitched975]

If you liked this you'd really love the book

[@MaryCrum]

In England on vacation i loved the sticky toffee pudding. Then fish and chips. 😊 I enjoyed your review. If i was going to describe the movie with one word...chemistry. Holy moly the two leads were amazing together. The scene in Paris is iconic now. It was so intimate to watch, makes you feel like a voyeur. ❤

[@videohistory722]

She actually DID make a slideshow about Alex dating Henry. Her main concern was if he was using government funds to go visit him (no), and taking him off her campaign.

[@justbeeyourself]

this is one of my top five comfort movies now which makes me so happy because the book is one of my comfort books. i definitely recommend reading it, i feel like it's in that area between young adult and adult fiction? because the characters are young but it's pretty honest and relatable even for an old fart like me. i wish amazon had given them the budget to do a mini series because there's so much more that could have been included, but i'm still so happy with what we got!

[@markballard9942]

Nicholas Galatzine is British. Descended from a long line of Russian princes. His mother is Greek.

[@rxbeccarose]

oh my okay

[@thisisbillgates]

"The Prince of Shame and Secrets kind of goes hard though." 💀

[@AnxietyRat]

Yeah, they got the budget version of falling in love with you but the budget version that they got is sung by a queer artist, if I recall correctly... So it makes sense! Lol

[@bcnmanhattan5022]

Oh!. Thanks

[@DegrassiInstantStar]

The casting of this film was brilliant. Love this film!

[@virlinehonore9767]

the love making scene was beautifully done 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@Msliliheart]

The book will give a lot of context but I personally prefer the movie.

[@videohistory722]

It was the Rio Olympics, and what Henry REALLY said was, "Can you get rid of him?" Henry's explanation is mostly true to the book, with a few details left out: His father was a James Bond actor, and they were specifically visiting the cancer ward, in his honor.

[@icyboi13]

Fun reaction. You mention the book not being in your “age range,” but it’s considered New Adult usually. Maybe the cover gave young adult vibes, but it’s def not for anyone too young (the the s** scenes aren’t too explicit). The book gives a lot more character growth & allows the secondary characters more room to shine. Plus Alex has a sister (who was kind of combined with Nora for casting). It also gives way more context to the journalist who has a more complicated role that was merged with a more antagonistic character. The king is also a Queen in the book & you get to meet Henry’s mom (& way more of his sister, whom I really liked in the book too).

[@jackieunger6357]

Non disclosure agreements. NDA. Love your reaction! ❤

[@DoubleBlack2.0]

Definitely, DEFINITELY read the book. 😍🥰

[@rxbeccarose]

ill try :')

[@liss_Th]

I love that actress. Nobody understood her role, but I love it every time she plays that role of cynical and direct person. It’s the one that made me laugh the most in the movie

[@lemonfreshrob]

The tune Alex plays is an American song "My Country Tis of Thee" it's just that we also use the same tune for "God Save the King" (as do a number of other countries for various patriotic songs). My rationale is it's reflecting the US/UK connection in their own story. As I understand it the origin of that tune is a bit murky, but it's almost certainly English in origin, but predates the better known songs.

[@Z3dude12]

If you do have an interest to read the book, it's actually an *adult* romance, rather than YA, like i originally thought too. But its definitely adult i promise lol

[@rxbeccarose]

oooh adult romance? now im much more interested

[@Bklyngurl85]

Great reaction! I love this movie! But the most unrealistic part of the movie is that they flip Texas and Henry is on stage at the election. Would never happen. But still, love it so much! The chemistry between the leas actors was phenomenal.

[@Shadowwing1994]

Zahra is responsible for Alex's schedule and appearances, and she NEEDS to know who he's hooking up with since they have to sign an NDA. So her reaction is more from "this is really making it difficult to do my freakin job", not that she cares that Alex is with a guy. I really do wish they were given the budget they needed and deserved for this movie, but they did a great job with the resources they had! I hope this leads to Amazon backing up more movies like this in the future

[@sunshroses]

canonically, as people have mentioned, Alex is the top but many people in the random headcanon them to switch because neither of them seem like tops lmao

[@chrissiek8706]

" he's not so bad, he's just British" 😂😂😂😂

[@virlinehonore9767]

zahra's so funny and she's even more hilarious in the book 😂😂

[@_in.ecstasy1]

She’s the boss the real mommy

[@ANTHA69]

This commentary WAS EVERYTHING!! 😭

[@rxbeccarose]

thank you legend!!

[@paulovsky]

I love this movie so much and I loved your reaction!

[@scorpiansarecreeps5688]

I love this movie so much, they've made me fall in love with them all over again. I can't stop watching this movie, they're just so brilliant together.

[@ladywiththecats]

You're not the only person to notice that Nicholas suddenly went a bit American when he said Henry's name. So odd how those American Rs suddenly come in! My best guesses are that he's easily influenced by other people's accents and was picking up on Taylor's or he had recently been doing an American accent for another role. Also thank you for picking up on the security taking down a child in the hospital! I don't think I've seen anyone else mention that.

[@teafliies]

I'm pretty sure he filmed bottoms right before this so some of that American accent might have been lingering, yes

[@dimmie6344]

His mom is Greek American hun.

[@dimmie6344]

​@@teafliiesAlso his mom is Greek American, he has alot of family in NY.

[@ladywiththecats]

@dimmie6344 ah that makes sense. I had just seen people saying he was part Greek. Probably makes it a bit harder to keep the accent straight, especially when working opposite an American.

[@videohistory722]

in the book, they slow danced to Your Song by Elton John in the museum.

[@richardperhai8292]

I think this song was definitely more "on the nose" though. It's literally what is happening in the story

[@2WarriorJay8]

omg slay with this editing

[@rxbeccarose]

ah thank u legend :')

[@Larry.cupcaks]

I don't know where did they find these two lead actors, but they did a fantastic job! The chemistry, intimacy is perfect! On that scene , they really were making love! It wasn't just a s*e*x. It was the first time that I saw this gay s*e*x scene so beautiful. Most of them are very quick and rushy. And from behind! It really showed that it was the first time for Alex ,and the first time for Henry with the one he is in love with. I have red the book last year. I mean... great adaptation from the book. And....I think that the museum was a sign that he could feel that he could easily and without fear walk among people and be himself. Dance with someone you like without anyone watching or judging you.

[@foreverlazy552]

Would definitely recommend reading the book!

[@TheaAv01]

Bro you slipped the part where: Alex was like i thought my name was mouthful and Henry was like "he is mouthfull" 😭

[@Jose-sx4ql]

Alex: Yeah, I could eat Rebecca: aSS lmao I'm gagged

[@rxbeccarose]

AODHAOWDH

[@ambriaashley3383]

I was dying at that 😂😂😂

[@dcemerald70]

I love this film, and I’m currently reading the book. I do agree that there is more depth in the book, but I still love it. I always loved the romantic moments. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈❤️🤍💙

[@virlinehonore9767]

22:10-22:21 omg that line and history huh made me sob in the book 🥰🥰

[@ambriaashley3383]

😂😂😂 “they went to the school of CUNTS” “Fact check, mum!” This was hilarious 😅😅😅

[@KennyYoutubeMakesMeFeelGood]

Welcome back Rebecca I missed you so much on KZbin🎉❤

[@Inquisitor-Beals]

Funny how Philip thinks he can intimidate Henry. When Henry is twice his size and weight

[@hopefowler3219]

Nicholas (Henry) is British but he has played a lot of ‘American’ roles

[@virlinehonore9767]

11:26 she's not wrong! 😂😂

[@virlinehonore9767]

i love the book and it's my fav book i've read this year! i loved the movie so much! nick and taylor have so much chemistry! they were casted perfectly and i need to see the act together again 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

[@Inquisitor-Beals]

I think that only counts for British elections. Not foreign elections.

[@virlinehonore9767]

miguel doesn't even exist in the book! it was ellen's opponent who leaked the emails

[@rxbeccarose]

oh okay, thats interesting i had no idea he was just for the movies

[@videohistory722]

What actually happened was Henry tried to walk away, Alex reached out to stop him, so Henry SHOVED him away, which knocked him into the cake.

[@luiscarracedo7793]

The raft scene is related to one of the deleted scenes. The night before Henry, in story form, says that there was a prince with his heart outside his body; and to protect his heart the king gave him an armor. When he meets a devastatingly handsome young peasant boy, who says the most ghastly things to him, he feels alive for the first time in his life, and realize that for his protection the price he had to pay was his freedom. Little by little the young peasant took apart the armor until he was left with only the part that protected his heart. On the raft, when Alex tries to tell him how in love he is, it is as if that last piece had fallen (when he is in the water he puts his hands over his heart) and there is the fear of not being able to show himself in public and what it is to feel his heart free and unprotected. In the book this is one of the emails.

[@ujihao_o]

Prince Henry in the book loves Jaffa Cakes too! ; - ;

[@theoretical8665]

Slay!!! Great reaction ❤ commenting to boost the algorithm!

[@emanuelrobles3115]

As the great philosopher Taylor Swift once said: "Drop everything now" and come and watch this, I've been silently waiting for this for weeks 😩

[@ChrissyJack]

cheese and onion pie. I loved this movie and the book is so good you should read it

[@AnxietyRat]

Yeah the budget for the movie was looowww. A lot of fans really really wanted a miniseries rather than a movie because a lot of the stuff in the book they just didn't have time to get into and so it isn't a very faithful adaptation for that reason. They did great job zooming in and focussing just on Henrietta Alex and they got the characterization of those two characters pretty decently.... I'd say movieAlex is more different to his book counterpart than Henry is to his book counterpart. But there's a lot of stuff that is also happening AROUND Henry and Alex in the book. But they would have had the time to explore everything and make a much more faithful adaptation if it was a miniseries... But they didn't have enough funding for a miniseries so...the movie was what had to be made, unfortunately(and it's really such a shame that Prime gave the Summer I Turned Pretty all of their Taylor Swift song money. Because these two characters are SO extremely Taylor Swift coded I cant---)... And yeah you can tell that it wasn't a very high budget movie because there's no crowds and the green screen is kind of iffy... And the set design is slightly sparse... The low budget of the movie really shows in some moments... But I think the acting and costuming kind of makes up for it. IMO.

[@msblondie]

i'm so glad you talked about the editing in this movie bc i definitely think they were editing on final cut pro or something LMAO no hate towards this movie i love it so much it's unhealthy but there were a lot of things that felt like funky "cheap" editing choices to me

[@virlinehonore9767]

0:24-0:27 that's ok! u could still read it! there's a lot of things the movie left out from the book

[@thae5527]

I SWEAR the name "waterloo letters" have context im so mad they left it out of the movie😭😭

[@virlinehonore9767]

5:21-5:24 yea, he is

[@CourtneyMacdonald24]

Movie Soo good I loved every minute of it also you should The book it's really good

[@enschmeling]

You got out of the target age range? You are the exact target age 😂 It is an adult book.

[@naishaachal7714]

Please continue with young royals please please please 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I live for ur reactions, and I really need it to young royals 😭😭😭

[@MatijaMedved]

history, huh. Bet we could make some!

[@Msliliheart]

Henry is the bottom. 😂😂😂

[@bcnmanhattan5022]

really ? LOL

[@Msliliheart]

@@bcnmanhattan5022 Yeah. You could see Henry's legs on the side of Alex. Even in the book, Henry bottoms.

[@bcnmanhattan5022]

@@Msliliheart I know. My LOL was sarcastic because this woman had to be paying very little attention to the movie.

[@Msliliheart]

@@bcnmanhattan5022 Whoops. Ahaha but yeah. I stopped watching halfway due to that.

[@bcnmanhattan5022]

😂@@Msliliheart

[@EquinoXshowcases]

off topic, but i love your insta, how do u take those photos? with what camera? they look so good 😭

[@rxbeccarose]

i use a fujifilm disposable camera :')

[@virlinehonore9767]

17:02 i hated him so much

[@virlinehonore9767]

10:10-10:20 i screamed during this even tho ik it was coming! 🥰🥰

[@theatricallyill]

BABES WE NEED BOTTOMS

[@videohistory722]

PLEASE consider doing Latter Days. Its one of the best LGBT movies ever made.

[@signe2102]

NICK HAS A SONG

[@AshleysAdvice]

Sorry Rebecca don't mean to harsh your commentary, but as someone with a vision impairment I can speak for people with vision impairment or who are blind and I have to say that not all apps allow audio descriptions for their TV shows and the ones that do aren't always that great, and as someone with a brain related vision impairment from birth, who can still see well enough without the audio description, I have to actually disagree because while some movies make the text big, it's still nice to hear it read out loud for that small portion of the film or TV show, this is not a grip with you just with how they do the audio description, but I think there should be an option for it to only read out when there's words on the screen like a place name or text messages etc, but not have audio description for all the other visual stuff unless the person wants it and it's either all audio description for every minute facial expression and gesture etc or nothing and while having an audio description for every single thing on screen is good for someone completely blind, for someone like me who still has enough vision to see what's happening on the screen, but just struggles to read text, it would be nice if there was a good Inbetween and I thought this film did a good job at that by having the characters say what they're typing I know it might be a bit weird but it's actually very helpful. So while I know this doesn't have much to do with your commentary, I just wanted to put it out there because I found it helpful, since not a lot of films or TV shows do that nowadays with the text appearing on the screen, some of them don't even do that and just show the phone which is even worse and very annoying, I know at least for me it's quite frustrating when I can't read the text appearing on the screen, because sometimes you miss important parts of the episode or film when you can't read the writing, again this is nothing to do with you but Morceau to do with the streaming services only having the one option for audio description to have it not on at all or on fully for every single thing on the screen, when majority of us really only need it for when text appears, also want to just quickly apologise to any fully blind people watching this because I know that they need the full audio description to watch shows and movies, but yeah I just think it would be really nice and helpful to have two options one for just text appearing on the screen and one for full audio description for the people that need it.

[@FeliciaRenya]

Sadly in the current political climate, a female Democrat with a bi son wouldn't win Texas (I live in a pretty red party of Texas). I think it's supposed to show that if we targeted the youth vote and thirsts new voters they'd have a chance, but we'd also have to deal with the vote suppression and gerrymandering. Not to mention the electoral college bs. Biden got over 40 percent of tx votes last election, but Trump got 100 percent of our votes in the electoral college who actually chooses the president, bc you only have to get half the popular vote here. Texas is a lot more purple (mixed) than people like to realize (even a lot of the people who live here) but it's got some battles to face before it can flip.

[@FeliciaRenya]

Loved your reaction btw, and loved the chemistry in this movie. They acted as hard as if they had the budget they deserved.

[@Lucy-uv4hv]

The book is adult, lol, you're definitely not out of the age range.

[@rxbeccarose]

My bad, i thought it was ya

[@Dan-zc3ou]

I honestly love the authenticity of the sexual aspect of queer relationships, no disrespect to my ace friends in the community but i'm tired of the "sanitized straight gay teen" shows

[@carlyhope]

Did you watch the after credit scene?

[@kristian1994able]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@virlinehonore9767]

12:14-12:28 😍😍😍

[@xitsCASS]

girlie i'm sorry you need to put your volume on your videos up it's always so low

[@rxbeccarose]

ill try, but if you mean the movie audio then i have to keep that lower for copyright purposes. But my mic i can sort that out

[@cathymorleyfoster3892]

​@@rxbeccarose9⁹9

[@sophiablackthorn]

Wdym the book is not in your age range?🤔 You don't look that old at all Btw the movie is good, it's nice to see people who didn't read the book react to it even though at first it was mostly disappointing seeing how much they cut from the book. I still enjoy it and I've already watched it 5 times but I see it more as a collection of moments from the book more than a complete story. Idk if that makes sense. I was worried people were going to hate on it but I guess as long as there's a gay romance most people can ignore the lack of development😭

[@Karen_Tries]

The book is meh. IMO too much of the politics not enough action 😂 ❤❤

[@natcarwin]

the modern family lol

[@renatocarvalho3324]

❤🎉

[@shirleyokuribido7151]

Talk to much. Annoying