00:00 My first celebrity crush was Jessica Alba.
00:02 I was obsessed with Jessica Alba for a period of time.
00:07 The lips, incredible.
00:09 Hi, Teen Vogue, I'm Nicholas Galatine,
00:12 and these are some of my firsts.
00:13 If I had to pick a dream person to be in a rom-com,
00:23 I'd say Aya would definitely be on that list
00:25 because she's so charming and funny.
00:28 Get out of the freaking car!
00:31 I did a job in Ireland, and I was like,
00:32 we actually bonded over our love for Ireland.
00:35 And we actually, I think, stayed in really similar areas
00:39 in Dublin for both our respective times.
00:42 I don't think she was even working there.
00:44 I think she was there to study or something like that.
00:46 But she is the pride of Ireland, I can confirm.
00:49 My first impression when meeting Aya was--
00:53 and I just immediately wanted to be friends with her.
00:56 Obviously, the bear was kind of--
00:58 I think it either come out or was
01:00 like in the process of coming out,
01:01 but she hadn't sort of blown up in the way that she has now.
01:03 I knew immediately she was going to be a star.
01:05 I mean, obviously because of her talent,
01:08 but even more so than that, I think her work ethic.
01:10 I think she's been hustling at comedy for a really long time.
01:14 And she's a wonderful dramatic actress as well.
01:16 And I can't wait for people to see even more stuff of her
01:20 dramatically.
01:21 The first thing that people should know about me
01:24 is that I'm a very open person, unless I haven't
01:27 had my first coffee of the day.
01:28 In which case, don't come say hi to me,
01:29 because I'm going to be in a terrible mood,
01:32 and I'm not going to be open at all.
01:35 It all depends on that first coffee.
01:37 First coffee is integral.
01:38 I think Americans think that we're
01:40 a lot more polite and a mild manner than we actually are.
01:45 And we can be very, very rude.
01:47 I can guarantee you that most English people you'll
01:50 meet out in public, whether it's on the tube
01:53 or just around London, we kind of stay in our zone.
01:58 We're not very talkative.
02:00 Another thing that Americans get wrong, I'd say,
02:02 is that they either think that we're part of the royal family
02:05 or East End geezers who talk like this,
02:07 whereas the majority of us kind of sit in this little middle
02:12 zone as well.
02:13 There are more English people than just
02:15 the posh and the cockneys.
02:17 My first celebrity crush was Jessica Alba.
02:19 I was obsessed with Jessica Alba for a period of time,
02:24 and still am in a lot of ways.
02:26 She's the most beautiful human being.
02:29 And the lips, incredible.
02:31 But also a wonderfully talented person
02:33 and an amazing businesswoman.
02:34 I've heard she has incredible business acumen, too,
02:37 which I think is also very attractive.
02:39 My first audition was for a tiny, tiny little movie
02:44 called The Beat Beneath My Feet.
02:46 I ended up getting the lead role in this,
02:48 and it was the first movie I ever did.
02:49 [MUSIC - THE BEAT BENEATH MY FEET, "BEAT BENEATH MY FEET"]
02:52 My love.
02:53 Put in some work, get into university, or be a sad loser.
02:57 About a young wannabe musician who
03:01 befriends a disgraced rock star who faked his own death,
03:05 which is kind of crazy to think.
03:07 And there was a period of time where I was like,
03:08 oh, this acting thing, I mean, it's very easy.
03:10 You go to your first audition, you get the lead role.
03:13 I mean, the rest of my career is going to be exactly like this.
03:16 And then, you know, obviously, found out that wasn't the case.
03:18 The first thing that turns me off about a person
03:20 is the people who try and get on the tube
03:24 before letting the people off the tube first.
03:28 Like, just wait.
03:29 Just wait, like, one moment, and then you can get on, you know?
03:32 That really irks me, I'll say.
03:34 The first thing that turns me on about someone, I'd say,
03:37 is authenticity.
03:39 If you get a sense from someone that they are completely
03:43 themselves, you know, they've embraced their oddities
03:46 and their quirks, it just creates a really vulnerable
03:49 space between people where you don't have to kind of pretend
03:52 to be something else that you're not.
03:53 I think maybe perhaps when he comes back from France
03:59 and he kind of sees this royal court,
04:02 and I suppose the sort of stakes that it would take,
04:05 the sort of effort and commitment
04:07 it would take to ascend to sort of power or relevancy in this.
04:11 And I think, you know, the same could be said for me
04:14 at the start of my career, climbing through the sort of
04:16 the echelons of this wonderful industry.
04:20 I mean, it's very daunting to begin with.
04:21 You know, he starts to feel more and more comfortable
04:23 in that setting, and I think the same is true
04:25 as I've traversed, you know, every year in this industry.
04:28 So yeah, I'd say there's a likeness there.
04:31 I mean, the first food I like to eat when arriving in the UK
04:35 is probably, we're not exactly renowned for,
04:40 oh, what I will say is like good Indian food,
04:42 'cause I feel like the US doesn't have
04:44 as much sort of Indian restaurants as,
04:46 I mean, we're so known for that in the UK, I feel like,
04:49 you know, given our large Indian population.
04:51 Love spice, but when it comes to curry,
04:55 I love a lamb korma.
04:56 Trying to push myself, you know,
04:57 I'm trying to get ready for hot ones, you know, eventually.
05:00 I don't want to have my palate destroyed
05:03 if I ever get invited on that show.
05:05 The first time I fell in love,
05:07 I'd say my first girlfriend, she was from Spain.
05:12 We worked together in Abercrombie & Fitch.
05:15 I was very desperate for money at the time,
05:18 so that was my excuse.
05:19 I remember just like traveling, you know,
05:21 being so broke and spending all my money traveling to Spain
05:25 to go and see her, you know, sleeping in airports,
05:29 taking buses, and that's what you do for young love.
05:33 Very financially irresponsible of me,
05:35 but, you know, it seemed worth it at the time.
05:37 My first job was when I was about 14, 15,
05:40 and my friend and I started a car washing business
05:45 and we'd go around the affluent neighborhoods
05:51 knocking on doors.
05:54 We didn't have expertise in this area,
05:55 but we sort of hoped that our young charm
05:59 would kind of get us through the door.
06:01 And we realized the sort of effort
06:02 that you had to put in without all of the kit
06:05 to wash a car and then to only get maybe 10 quid for it
06:08 was, it was kind of futile.
06:12 We disassembled the business after about a month or two.
06:17 We didn't fall into the car washing business long-term.
06:21 I think the first time I realized my work had had resonance
06:24 was after my second movie,
06:28 which was this kind of cheesy romance movie,
06:31 but we got invited to this film festival in Italy,
06:33 which was kind of for teenagers.
06:35 And I mean, about like a thousand people showed up
06:39 and I was just completely floored and blown away.
06:43 I was in New York at the time,
06:44 and I just kind of, I think I felt more perceived
06:47 than I'd ever felt before.
06:48 And that felt like a notable shift for me.
06:52 My first interaction with Julia Moore
06:54 was actually this cast scheduled meetup
06:58 where basically the entire cast of the first three episodes
07:03 got together in a room.
07:04 I remember feeling an immense warmth from her immediately.
07:09 Her smile is so large and it really,
07:14 she just has a way of lighting up the room, I think.
07:16 It made her very human for me.
07:17 And I think then going into the process
07:19 and actually getting to know her,
07:20 that was very much confirmed.
07:22 You know, she's just such a sweet soul
07:24 as well as being immensely talented.
07:27 The first period costume I had to wear
07:29 was probably for Cinderella.
07:32 ♪ Anyone, anybody can anybody find me ♪
07:37 I don't remember exactly what it was,
07:39 but I'm sure it was some sort of waistcoat
07:41 and wide collared and sort of riding boot type costume
07:46 because it was not set in this real world.
07:49 Those were kind of a mixture of different periods, I think,
07:52 but it was so fun to wear.
07:55 They're difficult to move and dance in, that's for sure,
07:57 but they looked amazing.
08:00 Unfortunately, they don't let me have any of those things.
08:04 You really got to become a bit of a thief on a film set
08:06 because oftentimes there's a process
08:08 by which they hold onto these things for years.
08:11 And then at that point, you know,
08:12 you can't be bothered to secure them yourself.
08:14 So you got to steal props from set.
08:18 That's the only way, the only way to go.
08:20 Thank you, Teen Vogue, for having me.
08:22 I am Nicholas Galatine and these were my firsts.
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