Harry Stylesand the cast ofMy Policemanare unpacking the complex relationships at the heart of their new drama.
A featurette about the film, exclusive to PEOPLE, showcases new footage from the upcoming film and interviews with Styles, 28, and costarsEmma Corrin(The Crown) and David Dawson, as well as Linus Roache, Gina McKee and Rupert Everett, who play older versions of the former actors' characters.
“It’s a story about friendship, love and lust,” directorMichael Grandagesays in the video.
“They’re all three of them victims of the world in which they live,” Dawson, who plays museum curator Patrick, says in the clip after Corrin explains the film’s synchronous timelines. “The central triangle of this film really fascinated me.”
As Corrin says in the clip, Styles' character Tom “sort of straddles these two relationships” between his wife Marion (Corrin) and Patrick, a friend who he falls in love with.
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“There is very real love between him and Marion. There is very real love between him and Patrick,” Styles says in the featurette, while Roache adds that Tom “cannot call himself gay.”
“He cannot embrace the fact that he actually loves another man,” Roache says in the clip. “So it’s like, deep denial in there.”
“A story of forbidden love and changing social conventions,My Policemanfollows three young people – policeman Tom (Styles), teacher Marion (Corrin), and museum curator Patrick (Dawson)– as they embark on an emotional journey in 1950s Britain,” an official synopsis for the film reads.
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“Flashing forward to the 1990s, Tom (Linus Roache), Marion (Gina McKee), and Patrick (Rupert Everett) are still reeling with longing and regret,” the synopsis adds. “But now they have one last chance to repair the damage of the past.”
At the end of the featurette, Styles notes that “the friendship is real” between each ofMy Policeman’s central three characters in the featurette.
“They’re victims of their time,” McKee adds. “They’re victims of what they do to one another.”
OnThe Howard Stern Showin May, Styles discussed the “vulnerable” experience of filmingMy Policeman’s love scenes.
“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 inDon’t Worry Darling. I was naked inMy Policeman. There’s no peen in the final cut. There’s bum bum. … I don’t think the peen was intended to be involved,” he said.
In June, director Grandage chatted withVanity Fairabout theMy Policemancast’s willingness to commit to their roles.
“It was very, very easy because all three of those younger actors are very open — they don’t make acting difficult and they don’t make the process of filmmaking difficult. They come open-minded, wanting to please each other. They were there for each other,” he said.
My Policemanis in select theaters Oct. 21 and premieres on Amazon Prime Video Nov. 4.
source: people.com
