RWRB 1 (because we can say that now, ahh! 🤭) shot June-August 2022. They filmed reshoots in January 2023.
one of my favourite: nick’s hair looks so sksksjsn good unghhhh moments 💗
Reshoots were done in-part because Miguel was recast, and also because Matthew wanted additional footage for some scenes, which isn’t uncommon.
It was this list of scenes in which Nick wears a wig - because he’s filming another project - that inspired this post, and then I was also re-reading some old interviews, and I wanted to put them all in one place!
Nick wears a wig during the reshoots because he was filming Mary & George (He shot Bottoms > RWRB > TIOY > M&G with very few breaks, if any. TIOY wrapped in December 2022, M&G began shooting in January 2023, and the reshoots for RWRB were also in January 2023.)
If there’s a silly!weird thing to know about me when it comes to movies and shows I love, it’s that I will spot an inconsistency like a wig/sudden hair change (hello twilight saga wig fiasco, it’s been over 15 years and I still know all the lore, and think about those fuck ass wigs every time I rewatch those addictive movies 🤪).
Nick wears a wig for RWRB reshoots during these scenes:
The television broadcast on the balcony.
Henry and Alex see each other for the first time during the receiving line.
Matthew reveals that their first meeting on-screen was originally going to be in front of the cake, before he realized the audience would need more context.
"The initial meeting on screen was when they met up in front of the cake but I realized watching the film that I needed to introduce and create a sense of animosity between them earlier and so that's how the receiving line scene came about," shares Matthew. These additional scenes were then completed in January 2023.
The receiving line scene is also a wonderful example of the wildness Taylor brings to the screen as Alex, something that Matthew says he never needed to coach Taylor on.
Henry on the couch during NYE.
Also again briefly while looking sad after Alex/girls kiss during NYE.
Matthew Lopez: It was a hard-won scene. We actually filmed it in two sections, six months apart. We got all of the scene work and the beats down, and we got what we thought was sufficient party atmosphere beats. And we started to cut the film together, and I realized we just didn’t have enough. And so, we went back in January for a few days of reshoots on a couple of other things, and I got them to rebuild part of the set for me. And we brought in just a bunch of people, and we just had a big party and shot it.
That was one of the great lessons for me as a first-time filmmaker, thinking I had enough and realizing that I didn’t, and then being given the opportunity to go back and get more of what I needed. But one of the blessings of that was because I had cut the scene already, then I got to plan the new shots very carefully. We got to invent moments and grab them.
Henry arrives at the DNC to surprise Alex (but then it’s Nick’s real hair when they get up to the hotel room).
When they’re leaving the gates of Kensington Palace to go to the V&A.
Henry crying in the car after the leak.
wig on the left, nick’s real hair on the right.
Henry sitting at the piano (Alex comes to sit with him and they talk - when Henry is seen playing the piano, it’s Nick’s real hair. Only the conversation is a reshoot/wig).
When Nick went back to do RWRB reshoots, he had just wrapped TIOY. During reshoots, he shot this piano scene with Taylor, where he says the line as Henry: “they loved the idea of me” which is like inception… or something. But just adds to the crazy long invisible string of Nick’s career! 💫 he then of course, goes back to shooting M&G, and we all know about the connection there…
When firstprince go out onto the balcony after their confrontation with The King.
Henry on stage when they win the election.
• Deleted scenes: in BTS photos, Nick is seen in a wig while wearing an apron for what would have been the Thanksgiving scene.
If I missed any, please let me know, and I will update.
I conclude my list with some final favourite moments: Henry’s perfect prince hair 💙
my favourite blondie cupcake moments irl from the rwrb 1 era 💖:
the day we get another one of these BTS videos, and Nick has Henry hair skdkdkdk 🤭
Seeing Nick’s long luscious locks out and about, while he’s been filming He-Man right now, I am begging, BEGGING he continues to take his M&G girlies everywhere he goes. They did insane work with him on that show (Rita 🙂↕️) and are currently working with him again on MOTU.
the prettiest prince 👑 Nick’s hair is beautiful 💛