Harry Styles Opens Up About Playing a Closeted Gay Policeman in 'My Policeman'
Harry Styles is talking about his latest role.
The 28-year-old “As It Was” singer-songwriter and Don’t Worry Darling actor opened up about playing the character of Tom, a gay policeman still in the closet, in his new drama My Policeman, which premiered over the weekend at 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.
During a press conference on Sunday (September 11), Harry spoke about getting into character.
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“I think he’s very curious,” he said, via Variety.
“I think he’s someone who is born into a very small world and, if you’re born into that kind of environment, you feel like you know where the edge of the world is. Slowly throughout the story, I think he’s realizing that it is a little further away than Brighton. I think people live entire lives in very small bubbles like that, and if that’s how you’ve been brought up, and everyone around you and generations before you, your parents, etc. have all lived within their kind of small bubble, it’s obviously very difficult to even picture the world outside of that.
“So I think when he meets someone like [his lover] Patrick, who is well-traveled and likes art, he finds himself kind of being curious about those things,” he continued, referring to David Dawson‘s character.
“It’s feeding his curiosity, it’s kind of strange for him to be curious about stuff. And then I think with Marion (Emma Corrin) he also finds ultimately a friend who is the most accepting of him, and I think that’s why, kind of regardless of whichever way you think on their relationship, I think their friendship is incredibly real and loving and tender.”
Harry also discussed a central theme of the drama.
“For me, the reason why the story is so devastating is that, ultimately, the whole story is about wasted time, and I think wasted time is the most devastating thing,” he said, via THR.
“Because it’s the one thing we cannot control. It’s the one thing you can’t have back. And I think the one thing that I think matters — whatever kind of life you’ve lived — at the end when you think back on time with people you love.”
The film is set to be released in theaters on October 21, and hit Prime Video on November 4. See the photos from the premiere, and the first reviews.