Nicholas Galitzine recalls ‘intimidating’ chemistry read with Anne Hathaway

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nicholas Galitzine has recounted having to convince Anne Hathaway to dance with him during an “intimidating” chemistry read for their new romcom, The Idea of You. Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in ‘The Idea of You’ “It was so open and I think it was really at that moment that we kind of knew that there was a connection – that there was a chemistry there and it was so much fun in that audition, which is rare to say,” he remembered. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free It was the day after their chemistry read that Galitzine received a phone call from the team saying “they wanted me to be their Hayes”. “We tried to create a character that felt maybe akin to Harry in the sense that he’s a younger man dating older women,” Galitzine told BuzzFeed UK.