The Idea of You’s Nicholas Galitzine Wants to Make Sex Scenes Feminist

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, according to the film’s star Nicholas Galitzine. And, before you ask, the actor does firmly identify as a feminist himself. “I think we all should be, as men,” Galitzine tells Glamour.In the film, based on the book of the same name by Robinne Lee, Galitzine plays Hayes Campbell, a hunky, 24-year-old boy band frontman who falls in love with 40-year-old single mother Solène (Anne Hathaway) after a chance encounter in his personal trailer at .Nicholas Galitzine and Anne Hathaway in The Idea of You.Much like its source material, The Idea of You doesn’t shy away from a steamy sex scene, and Galitzine doesn’t shy away from talking about such scenes.

The actor has some experience filming especially spicy moments—memorably, for instance, when he played Prince Henry in another romance novel turned Amazon Prime film, .“I think female pleasure is the sort of protagonist in this movie,” says Galitzine. “These scenes, obviously there is a sensuality to it, but they’re not salacious.

They're incredibly connective. It's about two people, from very different backgrounds and circumstances, who share a deep simpatico and fall in love.” In fact, Galitzine says one of the film’s hottest scenes, in his opinion, is the one in which Hayes and Soléne dance around their hotel room in a bit of post-coital silliness, because it shows such “beautiful aftercare and connectivity.”“I think female pleasure is the sort of protagonist in this movie."“Annie and I, and [director] Michael [Showalter], we spoke about this, and I think there is so much hope in the movie,” Galitzine says. “So many women feel this sense that their life is over at 40, and that is not what this movie is about.