Nicholas Galitzine had a troublesome time filming Mary & George.
Within the upcoming Starz restricted sequence, Mary Villiers (Julianne Moore) encourages her son, George (Galitzine), to seduce King James I (Tony Curran) and grow to be his “omnipotent lover.”
Galitzine ended up breaking his ankle within the dance and preventing scenes on the primary day of the shoot.
“There have been these heeled sneakers that you simply see characters sporting quite a bit,” he defined. “These stately houses have very slippery flooring. Whereas filming the scene within the first episode the place I run and deal with this serving boy, my ankle slipped [and twisted] a full 90 levels inward. I fractured my ankle and needed to proceed doing stunts the following couple days after which was dancing on it.”
Regardless of the harm, he pushed by means of as a result of filming had simply begun. He wore driving boots so the splint on his ankle was lined.
“I used to be principally on set each single day of this six month shoot,” he instructed Leisure Weekly. “Studying the dancing I needed to do with a damaged ankle. I used to be actually filming a dance sequence, like, three days after I broke my ankle, which is actually troublesome contemplating I’m truly not a dancer by commerce both.”
The identical day he broke his ankle, one other harm occurred. “One among my costars, in attempting to carry me down, slammed my head right into a desk. So, I had a black eye and a damaged ankle,” he stated. “Tony [Curran] head-butted me at one level. He additionally reduce my chin open with considered one of his rings. I actually went by means of the wars on this manufacturing.”
The younger star isn’t bitter about all of it.
“I’m so happy with the ultimate consequence,” he stated. “None of it, clearly, was purposeful, and it mirrored the epic-ness of the journey that I went by means of over the present, each as Nick and as George.”