So it was the perfect synergy between a couple of my passions being acting and music. And I’m planning on releasing music actually following the release of the film, because it’s something I’ve kind of been doing for myself for the last few years. WWD: What about the fact you’d be singing in the film - do you have a musical background? I think what we’ve seen with certain royal family members. He feels very caged, very trapped by social obligations to be a certain person, to be a certain man. Prince Robert is very much a product of circumstance, born into royalty, but very frustrated with the lifestyle that he has to lead. N.G.: I think we often see this young man who is instantaneously pining over this woman that he doesn’t really know. So they really put me through the ringer to kind of convince everyone that the role was mine. I think it’s kind of the big challenge when you get to the sort of the point where you’re in the industry, but you’re trying to break through into the upper echelons. I think the studio originally might have wanted kind of a name person for these things. And I think a lot of people were gunning for the role. He’s much more real, he’s much more honest, less archetypal. N.G.: I think it’s a much more humanized version of a fairy-tale prince. WWD: Aside from working with Camila, what made you want the role so badly? I generally feel like you should only ever sing a capella for like maximum 30 seconds. I had to sing a Queen song a capella, “Somebody to Love,” a capella for two minutes, which you know is hard enough anyway. N.G.: It was an absolute train wreck of an audition. WWD: What did you sing for your audition? It was this really coveted role because it was sort of known that it was going to be Camila Cabello’s debut act. And this was while I was shooting a project and they loved my original tape for it. I’ll audition for another one.” Not expecting anything to come of it. And I said to my agent, “I’m swearing off princes for a little bit.” And then a couple of weeks later, this came over my desk and they said how it was going to be an entirely different play on this familiar fairy tale that we know, and comedy was involved and that singing was involved. I won’t say which one, but I’d kind of been through the process with that - and I was so gutted that it didn’t work out. Nicholas Galitzine: It’s really funny because I had just screen-tested with the director for another prince for a Disney project.
WWD: First things first: How did you land the “Cinderella” role?
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