At QUEERGURU  we prefer queer roles on the big band small screen to be played by members of  LGBTBQ+ but then just to confuse the issue, once in a while, some straight boy comes along and nails it all so convincingly. They prove that sometimes the best actor (man) for the job can (and should) take priority.

British actor Nicholas Galitzine has gone a step further in his last two roles by playing, royal queers. In Red, White, and Blue he played a British Prince second in line to the Throne who developed a love affair with the son of the IS President.  The movie with an award-winning impeccable crew helming it …. Mathew Lopez (Writer of The Inheritance) and uber-queer Producer Greg Berlanti. (The Policeman, Rock Hudson All That Heaven Allowed etc)  earned Galitzine heartthrob status.

Now he goes from playing a Royal Prince to playing a royal lover in Mary and George a historical psychodrama.  His scheming power-hungry mother (played by Academy Award-winner Julianne Moore) shapes her beautiful son to become King James’ “all-powerful lover.” Besides seducing the king, the trailer below shows George having sex with a few other queer characters.  And evidently, it is all based on a true story

 

 

Shape-eyed queer cineastes will have worked out that this is not Galitzine’s first time to the queer rodeo as he has several other gay roles featured in this resume. Starting back in 2015 his first TV role came with a brief guest appearance in season two of TNT crime drama series Legends  He played Angelo who was blackmailing a man he had a gay relationship with.  Then just two years later he was starring in John Butler’s enchanting coming-of-age movie  Handsome Devil about two very likable 16-year-old boys in an Irish Boarding School 

 

 

 

Then in 2020, Galitzine played Bi.  The film was The Craft: Legacy which was a reboot of the 1996 teen horror classic The Craft,   It is Galitzine plays a high school bully and the film’s early antagonist Timmy Andrews, who later comes out as bisexual in a scene that provides a rare moment of bi male visibility on screen. 

Currently, Galitzine can be seen in Bottoms a new lesbian teen comedy that is currently playing in US Movie theaters   But even he is not that versatile to actually be able to play one of the lesbian. leads.