“It’s an incredibly empowering feeling,” Galitzine tells EW.
Mary & Georgegives viewers plenty of bang for their buck.
But Galitzine says it wasn’t as emotionally or as physically taxing as one might think.
Tony Curran and Nicholas Galitzine on ‘Mary & George’.starz
“It always was about George,” he tellsEntertainment Weekly.
“There was one day where we did about four sex scenes in one day,” he says.
Okay, this is the position we’re going to be in.'"
But for Galitzine, it was a useful way to tap into the character’s psyche.
“You vicariously live through this man’s sense of power,” he says.
“It’s an incredibly empowering feeling.
But I’m so proud of all that work that we did together.”
“King James was more familiar to me than George was,” he notes.
Life truly is stranger than fiction.
Finding out all of this power that he ascended to and his voracious sexual appetite.
There were things that we couldn’t even include in the show because we didn’t have enough time.
He very famously bedded the Queen of France as well.
It was such a joy to be able to play someone so textured."
“I got to know George so well,” he explains.
So, we went back to the drawing table."
“George is a tricky character,” he continues.
“George’s power is much more in his physicality and what he doesn’t say.
It’s a melding of both historical and then bringing my own perspective to the table.”
Mary & Georgepremieres on Starz on Friday, April 5.
