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Masters of the Universe stars Nicholas Galitzine & Camila Mendes spill some unexpected confessions
Jun 2, 2026
Nicholas Galitzine and Camila Mendes join us to chat about their new film, Masters of the Universe, and the pressure of bringing He-Man childhood memories to life. While they’re here, they spill some unexpected confessions - Nicholas's Riverdale audition, their love of Mr Fantasy, and Camila admits she’s never heard of a Greggs sausage roll. #nicholasgalitzine #camilamendes #mastersoftheuniverse #heman #mrfantasy #riverdale
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I auditioned for Riverdale as well
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Didn't get the job. They clearly saw more potential here. And they weren't wrong for it, Nick
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Yeah, they weren't wrong. They weren't wrong. Mr. Fantasy is getting the biggest piece of free promotion
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Do you know about Greg's, first of all? No. You didn't show me sausage rolls, Nick
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What was I thinking? You've got this thing called, please stop asking me. Truthfully, it's quite funny because you just asked me this, but..
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I like to just give my problems to the people around me
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I get where KJ's coming from. But please stop asking you about it. Yeah, because I'm like, you know, I'm friends with both of them
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and I don't want to be put in an uncomfortable situation where I have to choose between the two
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Camila and Nicholas, welcome to Heart's Evening Show. How are you both? We are very well
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I love that. Nicholas, you do such a good American accent. I do forget that you are actually from the UK
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Have you had a chance to show Camila around your home city a little bit? Camila, first of all, needs no showing up
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She's such an active person. She's more ingratiated in the nightlife of London than I am
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I'm actually just an old man. And a 30-year-old body. Yeah, it's very unfortunate
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Sort of a reverse Benjamin Buttons thing. But it was tough because while we were filming
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we were both on very strict diets. And so we couldn't really enjoy going out to eat
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and doing all those things. There's so much social aspects like that
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that you actually don't realize get taken away. It's a great excuse to tell people
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yeah yeah really good she's really sorry my superhero diet can't go out so does that mean
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that you haven't showed camilla about the uh trilogy sausage roll at uh gregs what oh yeah
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oh yeah the first time here do you know about gregs first of all no an institution like what
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how would how would we describe gregs it's just it's just a part of like the fabric of what it is
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to be English. Outside talking about the weather? Yeah, that's right up there
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That alongside. That's right up there. We're all very excited because for years, there's only been two different types
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of sausage roll at Greg's. Nada's three. Do you know what a sausage roll is
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It's a roll with a sausage in it. Yeah, but it's kind of, it's its own
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I wouldn't, I mean, it's not simply, you don't like put, I mean, it's just
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it's its own sort of baked kind of. It's a pastry and it has a sausage in it. It's just like a size of
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I don't know, Nirvana, I guess, in the culinary delight. It sounds delicious
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You have to try one before you go. Nick. Yeah, you're right. This all comes back to me
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My fault. So sorry. You didn't show me sausage rolls, Nick? I didn't. What was I thinking
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Well, apart from craving sausage rolls, I'm feeling very nostalgic right now
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You're a new film Masters of the Universe. That's unlocked some childhood memories for me
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In fact, if I could just paint a picture for you, right? Saturday mornings would have been me and my twin sister
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sat on beanbags, eating cereal filled with like e-numbers and watching He-Man and going absolutely crazy
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anytime he does his catchphrase. Were you aware Nicholas before you signed up how massive the franchise was I mean I was just blown away first of all that it is an IP that has kind of existed for 40 years and is still so beloved to this day
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But like you said, I mean, it was formative for people, which I don't think you can say about a lot of things
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So obviously there's the kind of the pressure that comes with that. But I just knew immediately that I wanted to do it
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And, Kabila, is that scary, signing up to something that you know
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is a huge part of people's childhood? definitely I mean you want to make the Gen Xers happy it's all about the Gen Xers no really like I
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want to make sure that I'm you know helping bring their childhood to life and not ruining it
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for them but I think honestly I felt a little less pressure because I think people weren't
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as emotionally attached to Tila as they were to He-Man so I feel like there was a lot of pressure
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on nick you know to be he man sorry buddy thanks so you're basically saying like this is the success
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of this movie yeah it's writing fantastic and my career will just sort of plumb it that's good to
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know did you did you watch any of the cartoon to like get into character because no disrespect to
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the original prince adam but he was very wooden and dry ultimately the script is your bible it's
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the thing you're working off of, the tone of the movie that we have
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is a lot funnier than the original. It's very self-aware. With the OG He-Man
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you look at him as Adam and you're like, that's He-Man. This guy
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That guy with the bulging triceps. And a pink polo. Yeah, it's obviously He-Man
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I don't know about that secret identity. I don't know if anyone's fooled
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Well, he also has one of the most famous bowl cut curtains
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in TV history. I've got a feeling, right? You know the same way
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a few years ago, loads of people were going to the barbers and going, give me the Tommy Shelby
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out of Peaky Blinders, right? I feel like people are going to be asking for the Prince Adam
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I think you're so wrong. Why do you think I cut this bar? This is for the press tour
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You weren't tempted to keep the look then? There was zero of me
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that was tempted to keep the look. Camilla, your character tila ever so good at keeping everybody on track uh focused solves problems are you like that in
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real life at all you see i've only met you for a few minutes you seem very sensible yeah she's
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she's yeah i'd say i'm a problem solver i really like solving people's problems i am a problem
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creator okay well that must have worked great on set then right i was always solving nick's problem
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yeah i like to just give my problems to the people around me you know not take responsibility for
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them uh no you're you are there is there is definitely teela within you i would say yeah
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i'd say so yeah yeah she doesn't fall far from this tree i love the tree of life um before
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prince adam becomes he-man he has shall we say a side hustle working in hr and i feel like as
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actors that something you guys can totally identify with getting a job before you get the job that you actually want um nicholas do you have any part jobs Oh my god he has the best stories about his jobs I had so many jobs dude
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I was just, I was so broke and unemployed for the first few years of my career
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I was a manny. What's a manny? A male manny. I didn't know that's what they called him
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Yeah, I worked in Abercrombie & Fitch. I worked in Snog Frozen Yogurt
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I was a caterer. to many an actor so i know by the way which actors are um absolute nightmare humans uh behind the
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scenes yeah we need to talk about that well it really to be honest it really taught me you know
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how i wanted to be as an actor being on the other side of it you know the service industry um you
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know i have a lot of respect for everyone who goes through that and so but i think look you know doing
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that and then being here it gives you so much more of an appreciation for for you know doing it yeah
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that's nuts i did the exact same thing i did catering also as well i would never be rude to
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any staff at a restaurant or anything because i'm used to getting like you know my shirt pulled yeah yeah people people just sort of um i mean they show their true colors really um but it's
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it i mean now i'm sure have you have you had anyone on maybe that you you catered oh that's
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a really good question um why why is this where is there a cold energy coming towards me 20 years
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earlier yeah i definitely hold a grudge i do i hold a grudge this morning i got fired from every
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one of the jobs that i had so i think i was i was destined to be an actor uh thankfully what about
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you uh camila do you have any jobs before the job i got very lucky because i started testing for
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riverdale right as i was finishing up college so i never had to go through that phase of finding
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you know the jobs to get me by yeah i got i just i have a very unique by the way i auditioned for
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riverdale as well didn't get the job didn't get the job they uh clearly saw more potential here
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and they weren't wrong for it nick yeah they were wrong they weren't wrong we've touched on it
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briefly at the um at the start of our chat he man's obviously known for his big muscles his
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incredible physique you look absolutely fantastic in the film i imagine it took a lot of work i
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heard you were eating up to 4 000 calories a day yeah sometimes more than 4 000 i mean because we
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really started we didn't you know five months seems like a lot of time but it actually isn't
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for for this amount of um transformation and so yeah i i basically was asked to trust these
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strangers you know nutritionists uh trainers uh chefs you know that they were going to get me to
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this place and you basically just have to do as you're told well there's a theme of um trying to
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fit in trying to find a place that you call home is a strong theme throughout the film
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is that something you've ever struggled with or um something you've ever had to work uh work
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through definitely for me because i moved around a lot as a kid and so i had no real sense of
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home because that was constantly changing and so for me i think the more i went through life the
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older i got i realized not to get it not to make it corny in here but um you know home is wherever you are like if you comfortable in your own skin um anywhere you go you gonna feel like you at home so that kind of now that my sense of home and i think it served me in this career because we
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constantly having to relocate and go like we film everywhere but la where i live so it's insane yeah
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so i feel like home is wherever you are i like that sort of turned into a bit of an after school
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special i know it's quite nice very he-man um we like to do something with um all of our guests
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right we've got this thing called please stop asking me now we're not saying these are good
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or bad questions right but it's a question that you feel like comes up quite a lot and you feel
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like at this point in your career you've probably answered it in fact one of your mates idris elba
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gave us one of our favorite please stop asking me he's it was please stop asking if he's going to be
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the next james bond oh yeah i mean i asked him that as well yeah he did and you're not mates anymore
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because of it yeah he just doesn't yeah he he refuses to i mean look do you see him here
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he's not here yeah um so i'm wondering nicholas do you have a please stop asking me
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look truthfully it's quite funny because you just asked me this but uh
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it's the first time this has happened look look look the thing obviously on this press tour because
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i transformed and i ate so much food and and the physical transformation is such a part of the of
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the of the movie making of of he-man i mean the amount of times i've been asked about the body
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transformation i mean it's obviously kind of like the headline so really i i don't i don't mind
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being asked that but i've probably been asked that more than any question in in in my career
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i don't know if it's the same for you i don't think so yeah i'm like trying to rack my brain
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i don't really know what i've been asked a million times i mean i know that there have been many questions we did ask around the office for your one camilla and something that came up quite a lot
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was whether or not you know the true identity of Mr. Fantasy. That has come up a lot on this press tour
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Can I just say this? Yes. Mr. Fantasy is getting the biggest piece of free promotion
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because of Masters of the Universe. Who's promoting who, honestly? Did he contact you guys
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Is he sort of perpetuating this? Because he's following us. I mean, he was at the premiere
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He was at the premiere. I didn't meet him, you know. I met him. I personally, like, you know, I've known KJ for a long time
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And so I know they all have a very sort of public beef. Obviously, Cammy's known KJ for even more than me
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I've known KJ for a decade almost. But you've spent time with Mr. Fantasy. I've gotten to know Mr. Fantasy recently
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And I think he's lovely. And I hope they squash the beef. I feel like they have been
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No, they were spotted recently. Yeah. Talking. It's like one of the famous beefs of all time
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I get where KJ is coming from. Yeah. Yeah, me too. But please stop asking you about it
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Thanks. Yeah, because I'm like, you know, I'm friends with both of them. and I don't want to be put in an uncomfortable situation
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where I have to choose between the two. That's a beautifully diplomatic answer
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Thank you. Camila and Nicholas, it's been so much fun chatting to you both. Thank you so much for stopping by Heart's evening show
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Thank you. Thank you, mate. Nice to be here. This is Heart
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