Matthew López Clip - “Red, White & Royal Blue” Prime Video Panel | Variety Streaming Room - video Dailymotion

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Join producer Sara Schechter, director, co-writer and executive producer Matthew López, and actor Taylor Zakhar Perez in the Variety FYC Streaming Room presented by Prime Video for an exclusive “Red, White & Royal Blue” conversation.

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00:00How did you kind of venture between that pressure to, one,

00:04make the fans happy, two, make the author happy,

00:06and also make something that's your own?

00:09I knew that there was no way I wasn't

00:12going to disappoint fans of the book with some decision I made,

00:16whether or not it was to sort of choose

00:19to exclude things from the book or change things from the book.

00:24I knew that small disappointments were inevitable,

00:28but I was willing to risk those in order

00:32to create sort of like a much more

00:36broad and macro enjoyment of the film by the fans.

00:39I was like really protecting the ultimate experience.

00:42The thing that I kept coming back to

00:44was this thing is going to look different from the book.

00:47This thing is going to operate different from the book.

00:49But what was most important to me is at the end of the film,

00:53people had the same feeling that they

00:55had at the end of the book.

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