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Filmmakers Behind ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ On Pressure of Adapting This Beloved Book, ‘I Couldn’t Sleep Until I Got to Make the Film’
Jack Dunn Five months passed between the audition and callback for “Red, White & Royal Blue” star Taylor Zakhar Perez, but it only took a few days to secure his role as Alex Claremont-Diaz once he spoke to producer Sarah Schechter and co-writer, director, and executive producer Matthew Lopez. “I’m at my cousin’s wedding and David Rapaport calls me and said, ‘Hey, Sarah Schechter wants to chat with you about this project.’ And I said, ‘Oh, I auditioned for that so long ago.’ He said, ‘Yeah, they’re trying to find their Alex. They want to talk to you,'” Perez recalled.