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How ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ Could Be A Welcome Salve In A Contentious Election Season
The Red, White and Royal Blue team admit there is a fantastical element to their movie, but the story is rooted in real political issues.
The cast and producers of Red, White & Royal Blue — Prime Video ‘s breakout movie based on the bestselling novel by Casey McQuiston — acknowledge there is a fantastical element to their hit rom-com that stars Uma Thurman, Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez: A female U.S. president. “Sometimes you don’t get the fantasy of Uma Thurman as president, but the reality of the choice that you’re facing is enormous and will affect your life and the life of a lot of disenfranchised and disadvantaged people, including anyone with a uterus and anyone who doesn’t identify as heterosexual,” says executive producer Sarah Schechter, who sat down for a chat this week at Deadline Studio at Prime Experience, where she was joined by Perez, Galitzine and Thurman, along with co-writer/director/EP Matthew López, McQuiston and co-star Rachel Hilson. “I think also there’s a beautiful sequence of Alex campaigning in his home state of Texas, which turns blue at the end of the movie,” added McQuiston, who received multiple offers to license the novel — their first — before it was published in 2019.
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