See Harry Styles as a closeted gay cop in first look at My Policeman – Yahoo Eurosport UK
Don’t Worry Darling isn’t the only Harry Styles movie performance to look out for this year.
Amazon released the first photos of the Harry’s House pop singer in My Policeman, in which he plays a closeted police officer who wants to lay some “Watermelon Sugar” on a handsome museum curator.
The streaming studio also announced that the film, directed by Michael Grandage (Genius), will be released in theaters this Oct. 21 before hitting Amazon Prime Video Nov. 4.
Amazon Prime David Dawson, Emma Corrin, and Harry Styles star in ‘My Policeman,’ a romance about a closeted officer.
Based on the book of the same name by author Bethan Roberts, My Policeman is set in 1957 Brighton. Styles plays Tom, who’s gay but starts dating a schoolteacher, Marion (The Crown‘s Emma Corrin), at a time when homosexuality was illegal. He also develops a secret relationship with Patrick (Peaky Blinders‘ David Dawson), that curator we mentioned.
Tensions rise amid the cultural climate when Tom decides to marry Marion, which doesn’t end up making anyone happy.
“The whole point of Tom is that he is a character who is confused,” Grandage told Vanity Fair. “It’s made more problematic by the fact that he’s a policeman, and he’s in a career that is about upholding the law. And the law in the country at the time is about everything he feels — the complexity of it is something that whoever was going to play younger Tom and older Tom needed to somehow understand and absorb.”
Amazon Prime Harry Styles stars in ‘My Policeman’ as a closeted cop named Tom who marries a schoolteacher (Emma Corrin).
My Policeman is arriving amid a bounty of modern queer romance stories on screen, including Heartstoppers, Fire Island, Bros., and Queer as Folk.
Styles, who’s dating actress-director Olivia Wilde, doesn’t talk much about his own sexuality. Though he regularly waves LGBTQ Pride flags at his concerts and has become known for his David Bowie-esque gender-bending sartorial looks.
The actor-singer will be seen opposite the likes of Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, and Gemma Chan in Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling come Sept. 23. The cinema this year is slowly turning into Harry’s (Second) House.
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