In 'Red, White & Royal Blue,' a director centers true queer intimacy on screen
It all starts with a royal wedding and catastrophic cake smash.
What ensues is an enemies-to-lovers romance between Alex Claremont-Diaz, the son of the U.S. president, and a British royal, Prince Henry. That's the plot of the new Amazon Studios movie, Red, White & Royal Blue, that's now streaming on Prime Video.
It is a screen adaptation of Casey McQuiston's bestselling novel of the same name, published in 2019. It's also the directorial debut of Matthew López, the first Latine to win a Tony award for best play, for his play The Inheritance.
López told All Things Considered host Juana Summers that he was captivated by the main characters after reading the novel.
"For me, especially Alex, you know, I'm a queer Latine, biracial son of the South, and so is he," López
