A museum is the perfect place to make history, huh?
Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutRed, White & Royal Blue.
For Galitzine, who grew up going to the museum, it was a surreal experience.
Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine in ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’.Jonathan Prime/Prime Video
To be able to witness it in such a quiet state was really bizarre.
Night shoots are disorienting at the best of times.
It was really cool to be able to explore it.
It felt a bit likeNight in the Museum.It was a weird, surreal but extremely enjoyable experience."
But it wasn’t as simple as booking some early morning time.
“They were very, very protective as you could imagine,” he tells EW. "
But we ended up getting permission, and that was amazing."
“It’s not the most photogenic gallery,” explains Lopez.
The chances that you’re going to get just a white wall behind you are good.
We could not bring it in our own lights."
But Goldblatt had an idea to work around that limitation.
But turning off the floodlights that lit the gallery for people to walk around in.
What you had in an instant was darkness everywhere and light shining on the art."
“We did not bring in any of our own lighting,” emphasizes Lopez.
“That scene is shot with the lighting that’s available to us at the V&A.
We decided that the scene would be the boys for the most part in shadow and the statues illuminated.
Their loss of light is audiences' swoony gain.
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