Nicholas Galitzine Once Thought His Lips Were 'Very Girlie': 'People Used to Say I Looked Like a Fish'

Nicholas Galitzine admits that his lips were once one of his biggest insecurities.

In a recent interview with The Cut, the 29-year-old actor revealed that he’s been reticent about his lips, saying, “People said I looked like a fish.”

The Mary & George the star explained during the interview that while some would envy his lips, he thought his full lips were “very girly.”

He went on to admit that, along with his lips, he was self-conscious about his dark circles. The The idea of ​​you the actor shared that others thought he didn’t get enough sleep.

Nicholas Galitzine attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.

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“I think I’ve always tried to separate myself from the image of myself because as soon as I landed in LA, everyone here is so beautiful,” he said after noting that he found it “impossible to throw out compliments.” Nevertheless, he admitted that he “likes to hear them”.

Galitzine went on to share that after moving to LA, he “decided that the only thing that would feed him” was to focus all of his “effort and energy on just trying to be a great artist and a great performer.”

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“The process of getting wrinkles—both freckles and facial expressions—in old age can only give you more tools in your performance,” he said after sharing his excitement about aging.

Nicholas Galitzine attends the STARZ Premiere of “Mary & George” at The Biltmore Los Angeles on March 21, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

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Galitzine recently exclusively told PEOPLE at SXSW that for his upcoming role in The idea of ​​you – in which he stars alongside Anne Hathaway – had to embody “the confidence of a pop star”.

IN The idea of ​​you an adaptation of Robinne Lee’s 2017 novel of the same name, he stars as 20-year-old Hayes, a world-famous member of a boy band who unexpectedly finds love with divorcee Soléne (Hathaway).

“The chemistry I read was transformative in a way. As an actor, you often walk into those rooms with so much trepidation, and it was so open,” Galitzine recalled to PEOPLE about first meeting Hathaway. “And I kind of remember walking out of the room saying, ‘You know, if this doesn’t work, I’m really proud of the work that I’ve done, even in this space.’ ”

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He explained to PEOPLE that he was “asked to bring a song and convince Annie to dance with me” during a chemistry reading.

“And it created a lot of anxiety because I’m not a dancer, and it’s also hard, you know, you’re meeting someone for the first time and you don’t want it to be weird, but with these things I kind of have to go all in,” the Londoner said.

“It was so open and I think we really knew in that moment that there was a connection — that there was chemistry and it was so much fun at that audition, which is rare to say,” he said. added.

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