While y’all were going feral on the new RWRB poster for the LA screening (believe me, I was too lol), I found a connection between that and an old promo poster. This has to do with Taylor and Nick behind the photo shoots.
I’m sure in the first pic, the photographer or Matthew told Taylor and Nick to look and act horny. As we can see, Taylor has one hand on Nick’s hip and the other planted firmly on the wall and Nick is tugging on Taylor’s tie. They look at each other with lusty eyes and the photographer took the picture.
In the second pic, we see Taylor and Nick smiling widely and in the same position (minus Taylor’s hand on the wall). I want to believe that these two goofballs started laughing the second the photographer took the picture from the first one. Just the idea of looking at your friend seductively like that makes you crack up and finding the whole situation so silly. Either Matthew or the photographer were looking at the boys and thought this was Alex and Henry coded and decided to a take a picture of that, too.
Was the old promo picture taken as T&N or A&H? I don’t know. But I will say that this is another piece of evidence of why T&N were the perfect choices as A&H.
Another scene like this would be the Paris love scene. The look Alex gives to Henry when he touches his chest (in my opinion) is Taylor trying his best to constrain himself from laughing. Same with Nick. 😂
It would be an awkward/hilarious moment between two friends and yet a tender feeling between two lovers. You can’t tell me there weren’t any outtakes from this segment alone.
Allow me to share a thought I had today.
I always talk about what goes through the boys’ minds while they’re filming different types of scenes. What kind of random things pop into their minds while filming? Usually, I’m marveling and gushing over how well they’re able to portray the romance of Alex and Henry’s relationship. How do they act like a couple, in a way that is so similar to their real dynamic, and not get all the feelings confused? It’s incredibly impressive, and I think it’s such an interesting thing to ponder, but a new one occurred to me.
This:
I just fucking know that they have bloopers from this.
There is not a chance in hell that they didn't breakdown laughing at least once. I mean, geez, you have to stare at your friend for that long and then have a noticeable reaction to how sexy he is. 😳🫣
AND Taylor's back is completely to the camera, so he could make a face or mouth something and we'd never know, but Nicholas would. This is also the sequence after their couch scene that was the scene Matthew directly referred to when he talked about getting them to "shut up and do the scene"; I would be amazed if they didn't laugh.😂
Did you noticed this dialogue change from the RWRB books?
“Listen,” Henry is saying, heated, over the phone on a Thursday night. “I don’t give a damn what Joanne has to say, Remus John Lupin is gay as the day is long, and I won’t hear a word against it.”
pink cover/original, page 160
“Listen,” Henry is saying, heated, over the phone on a Thursday night. “The desire to trot it out as one of our greatest literary achievements does not preclude the fact that Bram Stoker was gay as the day is long, and that Dracula is essentially a work of queer erotica. If anything, that makes the book even more important.”