It turns out Nicholas Galitzine has become sort of famous.
To get a sense for his current level of celebrity — especially after starring opposite Anne Hathaway in Amazon Prime’s “The Idea of You” — one only has to ask how he’d like to spend a theoretical day off.
“Where am I on this day off? What country am I in?” he asks back.
It’s a fair question. The English actor has “drunk the Kool-Aid” and officially relocated to Los Angeles’ west side, where he had mistakenly hoped he’d finally set down some roots.
“Classically, I was thinking I needed some consistency, and then have barely spent any time here given promotion of two projects,” he says. “But I am loving the pace of the industry out here. And just being able to meet with my peers and fantastic filmmakers and plot the future is really thrilling. But I’m so mercurial by nature that I never really ended up staying in one place for too long.”
Which works well, given the 29-year-old is quickly becoming one of the industry’s most in-demand actors. This spring, in addition to “The Idea of You,” he stars alongside Julianne Moore in the Starz period series “Mary & George.” They come on the heels of last year’s “Red, White and Royal Blue,” in which he starred as the Prince of England, a supporting role in “Bottoms,” and 2022’s “Purple Hearts,” which became one of Netflix’s most-watched films.
“Purple Hearts” came out during the pandemic, and the release of “Red, White and Royal Blue” hit in the midst of the SAG strike, as did “Bottoms.”
Cut to this spring at SXSW, and Galitzine found himself face-to-face with thousands of screaming fans, requests for selfies and book covers to sign at the premiere of “The Idea of You.”
“There were more people waiting to say ‘hi’ than I thought that there would be,” he says. “I was speaking with Julianne Moore when we were doing our…