Harry Styles Talks About ‘Tender and Loving’ Gay Sex Scenes in New Movie ‘My Policeman’ – Men’s Health
Harry Styles has opened up about filming gay sex scenes for his upcoming movie My Policeman.
Set in the 1950s, My Policeman sees Styles play a gay policeman who struggles to sustain his marriage while having a same-sex affair—which was illegal at the time.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, the singer explained how it was important to him that the sex scenes were “sensitive” and “loving.”
“So much of gay sex in film is two guys going at it, and it kind of removes the tenderness from it,” Styles says.
“There will be, I would imagine, some people who watch it who were very much alive during this time when it was illegal to be gay.”
He then explained that director Michael Grandage was key to the scenes and he wanted to show that gay sex is “tender and loving and sensitive.”
During the same interview, Styles said it was “unfathomable” to think that being gay was illegal in the UK in the 1950s and opened up about his own journey with sexuality.
“I think everyone, including myself, has your own journey with figuring out sexuality and getting more comfortable with it.”
The singer and actor recently admitted that he felt “vulnerable” when filming his first ever nude scenes for My Policeman and Don’t Worry Darling.
“It does feel vulnerable. I’d never kissed anyone on camera before and it felt like giving a part of myself away in some ways.
“I wasn’t naked in Don’t Worry Darling. I was naked in My Policeman. There’s no peen in the final cut. There’s bum bum… I don’t think the peen was intended to be involved. I think the most important thing in that stuff is trust.”
My Policeman releases on Prime Video on November 4.