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PODCAST: Top drama, comedy, limited series contenders, plus Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez | The Awardist

We're kicking off the 2024 Emmys season with our thoughts on likely nominees for Outstanding Drama, Comedy, and Limited/Anthology Series - Awardist host Gerrad Hall and EW TV Critic Kristen Baldwin break down the top contenders. Plus, Gerrad chats with Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez, stars of the hit TV movie and contender Red, White & Royal Blue.

Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez on their on-screen romance, that cake scene, and connecting with fans of Red, White & Royal Blue

From the moment they both enter the virtual video chat to talk about their 2023 smash-hit rom-com Red, White & Royal Blue, Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez are roasting each other, throwing out playful jabs. Their friendship and connection are undeniable, and it's immediately evident that the bond they share in Matthew López's movie, based on Casey McQuiston's enormously popular book of the same name, extends off camera as well. Eight months after the release of the movie, which took social media by storm as fans shared their favorite scenes — some funny, some steamy — and swooned over Prince Henry and Alex, the president's son, the stars chat with Entertainment Weekly's The Awardist podcast to look back on the movie (which they didn't get to promote hardly at all given the double Hollywood strikes), its success, their attempt to deliver a fresh and funny queer romance, and more.

Illustration by Jaya Nicley | Interview by Gerrard Hall

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I thought, this is the most incredible thing I have ever seen, and I had better keep it a safe distance away from me. I thought, if someone like that ever loved me, it would set me on fire.

And then I was a careless fool, and I fell in love with you anyway. When you rang me at truly shocking hours of the night, I loved you. When you kissed me in disgusting public toilets and pouted in hotel bars and made me happy in ways in which it had never even occurred to me that a mangled-up, locked-up person like me could be happy, I loved you.

And then, inexplicably, you had the absolute audacity to love me back. Can you believe it?

Sometimes, even now, I still can't.

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He kisses Henry until it feels like he can’t breathe, until it feels like he’s going to forget both of their names and titles, until they’re only two people tangled up in a dark room making a brilliant, epic, unstoppable mistake..

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