{"id":122,"date":"2026-01-08T07:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:00:45","slug":"amazon-announces-cast-for-the-highly-anticipated-lgbtq-film-red-white-royal-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Amazon announces cast for the highly anticipated LGBTQ+ film Red, White &#038; Royal Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"post-meta__title\">Amazon announces cast for the highly anticipated LGBTQ+ film Red, White &amp; Royal Blue<\/h1>\n<p>The cast of the upcoming LGBTQ+ film Red, White &amp; Royal Blue has finally been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a fan of queer literature, chances are you\u2019ve heard of the popular novel by author Casey McQuiston.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows the complicated relationship between Alex Claremont-Diaz, the bisexual son of the President of the United States, and the gay British monarch Prince Henry.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019,\u00a0Deadline reported that Amazon Studios\u00a0acquired the film adaptation of Red, White &amp; Royal Blue, with Berlanti Productions joining as producers.<\/p>\n<p>After two years, fans of the beloved book are finally able to see who will be portraying their favourite characters from the New York Times bestseller.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the highly-anticipated project is The Kissing Booth star Taylor Zakhar Perez as Alex Claremont-Diaz and Cinderella actor Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Henry.<\/p>\n<p>Kill Bill actor Uma Thurman is set to join the project as Alex\u2019s mother, the President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The film will also star Clifton Collins Jr (Painted Beauty), Stephen Fry (The Sandman), Sarah Shahi (Sex\/Life), Rachel Hilson (Love, Victor), Ellie Bamber (Willow), Aneesh Sheth (Jessica Jones), Polo Morin (Who Killed Sara?), Ahmed Elhaj (Half Bad) and Akshay Khanna (Chloe).<\/p>\n<p>The film is set to be the directorial debut of Tony winner Matthew L\u00f3pez \u2013\u00a0who also wrote the screenplay for the film.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element instagram-media cmplz-processed cmplz-activated instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CeQ-di_MYYT\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=360&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gaytimes.com&amp;rp=%2Ffilms%2Famazon-announces-cast-for-the-highly-anticipated-lgbtq-film-red-white-royal-blue%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A1766.3999999985099%2C%22ls%22%3A1714.2999999970198%2C%22le%22%3A1730.1000000014901%7D\" height=\"663\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the news made headlines, McQuiston expressed their excitement over the film and its cast in a\u00a0statement to Deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a thrill to hand this story over to Berlanti\/Schechter, Amazon and our fearless leader Matthew L\u00f3pez and watch them make so many smart, bold, thoughtful choices to bring it to life,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-123\" src=\"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/030-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/030-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/030.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis casting is no exception. I absolutely can\u2019t wait to see Taylor and Nicholas on-screen as Alex and Henry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perez and Galitzine echoed similar sentiments in individual posts on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat an unbelievable honour to bring Alex Claremont-Diaz to the big screen. We won\u2019t let you down,\u201d Perez stated.<\/p>\n<p>Galitzine added: \u201cSo pleased to be able to bring Henry to life in Casey McQuiston\u2019s Red, White &amp; Royal Blue, led by the wonderful Matthew L\u00f3pez.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An official synopsis for Red, White &amp; Royal Blue reads: \u201cHandsome, charismatic, brilliant\u2015his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s only one problem: Alex (Perez) has a long-running feud with his royal counterpart across the pond, Prince Henry (Galitzine).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an altercation between the two, U.S.\/British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows into something more meaningful than either Alex or Henry could have imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Production on Red, White &amp; Royal Blue is expected to begin production in the UK this month.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-1\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element instagram-media cmplz-processed cmplz-activated instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CeQ-cZnLmg7\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=360&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gaytimes.com&amp;rp=%2Ffilms%2Famazon-announces-cast-for-the-highly-anticipated-lgbtq-film-red-white-royal-blue%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A1%2C%22os%22%3A1770.3999999985099%2C%22ls%22%3A1714.2999999970198%2C%22le%22%3A1730.1000000014901%7D\" height=\"870\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon announces cast for the highly anticipated LGBTQ+ film Red, White &amp; Royal Blue The cast of the upcoming LGBTQ+ film Red, White &amp; Royal Blue has finally been revealed. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-taylor-zakhar-perez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presspulesnews9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}