The 29-year-old actor, who appears opposite Anne Hathaway in the new romantic comedy “The Idea of You,” admitted that comments about his looks have made him feel uncomfortable. In an interview with GQ magazine published Wednesday, Galitzine responded to a question about how playing a character who is considered good-looking made him feel. He replied: “I think the most important thing to me is that I’m taken seriously as a performer.
In the new movie, Galitzine, who also stars in “Mary & George” with Julianne Moore and in last year’s “Red, White and Royal Blue,” plays the lead singer of a popular boy band who embarks on an unexpected romance with a single mother, played by Hathaway, after meeting her at Coachella. There has been much speculation as to whether his role as Hayes Campbell, the singer in fictional boy band “August Moon,” is based on Harry Styles.