“Red White & Royal Blue ”Star Taylor Zakhar Perez Reveals His Ultimate ‘Chill’ and ‘Ordinary’ Date Night (Exclusive)

The ‘Purple White & Royal Blue’ actor is featured within the 2024 PEOPLE Sexiest Man Alive situation, out Friday

is a homebody at coronary heart.

“I firmly imagine that to have a rare profession, you must have an peculiar life,” says the Purple White & Royal Blue actor, who’s featured within the , on newsstands Friday.

His most well-liked form of date night time? “I’m so chill with cooking at residence, placing cell telephones away, strolling, most likely a canine is within the combine, and being outdoors,” says the chiseled star, 32.

“There’s simply at all times a lot noise in every little thing we do, whether or not it’s a beeping on our telephone or an electronic mail going out on our pc or Spotify taking part in within the background. I feel it’s simply [about] connection,” he says.

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The Indiana-raised star earned supermarket-level fame starring in Purple, White & Royal Blue because the charismatic son of a U.S. president (Uma Thurman), based mostly on the 2019 bestselling novel by Casey McQuiston,

As the primary son, Perez enters royal life after falling for a dashing British prince named Henry () within the hit rom-com.

“The perfect a part of taking part in Alex is how he’s eternally optimistic” says Perez. “However because the actor attending to have this expertise taking part in Alex, it was positively the areas that we obtained to shoot at as a result of it actually made you are feeling like a royal, otherwise you’re in that world accessing these properties. That actually helped you are feeling such as you have been on the earth.”

However again in actual life stateside, “the funniest factor is when folks name me Alex in a grocery retailer,” he says with a smile. “I used to be at Erewhon selecting out some pre-packaged meals and a woman walks by and goes, ‘Alex Claremont-Diaz!’ “

, which was green-lit in Might by distributor Amazon MGM Studios. On his want record for the sequel, which has but to begin capturing?

“I really feel like we’ve solidified the love half, however we haven’t actually seen them reside collectively,” he says of Alex and Prince Henry, whose relationship is examined when made public on the finish of the primary movie.

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“We noticed what they might do individually, however now we are able to see what they’ll do collectively, which is thrilling.”

And for the younger politico he performs, “I simply wish to see what Alex’s life in politics turns into whereas not being below his dad and mom’ roof and what he’s realized from watching his mother.”

Perez — whose favourite cheat meal is pasta (“I make a vodka sauce, [with a] very nice rigatoni noodle and simply Parmesan cheese from the farmer’s market”) and bucket-list journey entails cage-diving with nice white sharks — says he’s additionally felt a notable shift in his profession since making the favored movie.

“I simply have a greater sense of what I wish to do subsequent, and I don’t actually wish to do any repeats,” says the actor, who’s at the moment doing vocal coaching. “Nothing scares me greater than studying music that’s out of my vary.”

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