In an exclusive clip from the Prime Video adaptation of Casey McQuiston‘s Red, White & Royal Blue written and directed by Matthew López, we are treated to a coming out scene where Alex (Taylor Zakhar Perez) tells his mom, the President of the United States (Uma Thurman), that he is bisexual. He tells her he is falling for Britain’s Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine) after they have gone from being frenemies to lovers.
What happens after is a loving, supportive moment that is rarely seen in coming out moments in movies.
The moment Thurman said “You know the ‘B’ in LGBTQ is not a silent letter” in her Southern molasses-dripping drawl, we knew this was going to be a different kind of coming out moment. It’s definitely a coming out moment that many queer people wish they had.
In a recent GLAAD interview with López, who also wrote the Tony and GLAAD Media Award winning play The Inheritance, he said that it would have meant the world to him if he saw a movie like this when he was younger “We talk a lot about representation mattering and sometimes we don’t really talk about things like why representation matters and what that really means,” he said. “For me, what that means is characters on screen and in books that you don’t normally have access to. I don’t need to see my specific life reflected back to me because my life is often rather boring.”
“If I’d had Alex Claremont Diaz in the world when I was younger, it would have absolutely made me feel less alone in the world,” he said. “It probably would have made me feel less damaged than I did for such a long time. It would have made me feel like I mattered.”
Red, White & Royal Blue is currently streaming on Prime Video.
