India, April 21 -- Actor Ishaan Khatter has played a wide variety of roles in his career, but stepping into the shoes of royalty is something new for him. In his upcoming Netflix series, The Royals, the actor plays a prince. Talking to HT about the role and how OTT differs from films, Ishaan opens up about the show.

His character Aviraj may be worlds away from Ishaan but the actor says he could find similarities between them. "We're both very emotionally intense people. Aviraj bottles things up while I try to do better, hopefully as I am getting emotionally older. I defintely couldn't relate to his desperate need to run away from him. I don't need to escape," says Ishaan.

But preparing for the role had its own set of challenges, admits ...