Rainbow Crew is an ongoing interview series that celebrates the best LGBTQ+ representation on screen. Each instalment showcases talent working on both sides of the camera, including queer creatives and allies to the community.It's been love, a lot of love," Omar Rudberg tells us when we ask about Young Royals' considerable fandom. "I haven't seen anything else but love – for real.
And it's not just love from Sweden either. Since season one premiered on July 1, 2021, Netflix's intimate gay love story has become more famous than perhaps any Swedish royal in real life, especially among teen fans on an international scale.I was hoping that this series was going to be big in Sweden and hopefully Scandinavia," says Omar. "But it blew my mind – everyone's minds – when the series just flew away all over the world."
All this love is absolutely deserved, and the adoration continues to pour in now that Young Royals has returned for its second, highly-anticipated season. Digital Spy caught up with Omar to discuss *that* ending, season three hopes, and how his friendship with Edvin Ryding has evolved throughout the making of this show.What do you think it is about Young Royals that's drawn so many fans in outside of Scandinavia?
I would say the message behind it. We really work on showing what teenagers actually look like, what teenagers go through, and how teenagers feel, and what they do when they feel some things, and showing real teenagers, and real love, and real relationships, and how it goes in life when you're a young teen and you're in love, or when a friend does something stupid and you get really upset about it.I just think that people can relate so much to this series because we're trying to tell this story as true as possible.
You get to sing and perform more this season. Talk us through what that's been like for you.It's been amazing. I love singing. That's my number-one thing in life. I could just live by using my voice.I love singing so much. And to get to do it in a series like this, playing a character – and also playing a character while writing a song, expressing the emotions and feelings that this character has through singing and through music – that's literally what I do for a living, also.
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