British actor Nicholas Galitzine has said it “feels very much like I am a cut of beef at a meat market” in conversations around new romance film The Idea Of You.
The Cinderella actor, 29, stars opposite Anne Hathaway in the film about an age-gap romance between Hayes Campbell, the fictional lead singer of boy band August Moon, and a mother he meets at Coachella music festival.
The actor, from London, spoke to GQ Hype about how it makes him feel to embody a character who he described as “supposedly good-looking”.
“I think the most important thing to me is that I’m taken seriously as a performer,” he said.
“I’m not gonna ask you to cry me a river here, but it’s been difficult being part of a conversation that feels very much like I am a cut of beef at a meat market.”
Galitzine said he feels this way both with regards to casting and people’s reaction to his work, adding: “I think that (his looks) being my defining feature is something I’m constantly terrified of.”
