Are Taylor Zakhar-Perez and Nicolas Galitzine Dating in Real Life?
Are Taylor Zakhar-Perez and Nicolas Galitzine dating in real life? No, they’re not dating in real life. Though their chemistry on-screen is too believable, they keep their lives private to the public eye.
Though their banter goes well beyond the screen, they kept the energy rolling when cameras weren’t rolling “What people love, I think, about the book and hopefully will love about the film is this rapid, quick-fire ping-ponging of insults at the beginning, kind of their flirtations,” says Galitzine to People. “We were always keeping the bit going.”
“We were always doing a bit!” Perez laughed. “To the point where by end of summer Nick would be like, ‘Are you doing a bit?’ He was over it. ‘Is this a bit?’ I was like, ‘No! This is a real thing.’ That’s how much we were into it — I was confusing Nick whether we were just having a normal conversation.”
“Nick and I still have really great conversations and still mess with each other,” he says. “It comes from that level of trust you get when you work with somebody. With us, it was a rapid ascension into trust because we went right into intimacy-coordinating and were like, ‘You? Me? Going to be weird, but I trust you. I hope you trust me. Let’s go.’ “
It even bled into their own interviews, when they joked with each other”It’s over once we’re contractually done. Never talking to this dude again. Ever,” jokes Galitzine, as Perez plays along, “Yeah — unless we have a sequel and I have to talk to him again.”
Though, both actors emphasized the need of representing the LGBTQ community right. “I mean, that was the community that I was thinking about the entire time filming,” Zakhar-Perez said about the queer community to Newsweek. “We had so many conversations between the three of us [Nicholas, Matthew and Taylor] about accuracy. Because once you get into filming, it might look good in the script, right? But then when you’re in the moment, and you’ve felt these characters, you’ve been living in these characters for a few weeks, you’re like, ‘Hey, what do you think about this?’ And then Matthew goes, ‘Oh, that’s so interesting. I never thought of that.’”
He continued, “Because what he had already written is beautiful, I can’t fault Matthew anywhere with his writing. He’s just impeccable. But we would have these incredible conversations, and sometimes we change it, sometimes they stay the same, but we were just hypersensitive to making sure everything was properly represented and properly accurate.”
He continued, “It’s just like, excuse me, the different degrees of comfort that Alex starts to have, this needs to be represented in in a proper way. And Robbie was with us the whole way. And Matthew was there. It was always a group effort, which I really respected. I think you see some films, and it doesn’t matter if it’s about sexuality, if it’s about a certain profession, if it’s about like a family, you’re like wow, this came from one person. You can tell. And then you hear interviews and stuff and they’re like, this was his vision, or this was her vision. And with us, it was kind of like this crowdsourcing of questioning whenever we would have those questions, because there were tons of different people with different backgrounds that were cast and behind the scenes that it just became this collaborative effort if we ever got stuck somewhere. Everything just was so beautiful. Every conversation was wonderful.”
