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Grand Agent - Know The Legend

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THiS!! https://twitter.com/kiwi94325808/status/1588874735852875778?s=46&t=v3rXOPV-KuysW-QUsNFmyA

This is honestly one of my favorite scenes. I’ve watched it so many times. Harry’s just brilliant in it. And Michael’s quotes are heartbreaking.

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My Policeman (2022) dir. Michael Grandage

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In regards to the small British movie My Policeman, Grandage was surprised to receive a phone call from Styles’ agent. Styles wasn’t even top of mind for the project when Grandage was putting it together. The film tells the story of a love triangle in the late 1950s when homosexuality was illegal in the UK, between a gay museum curator, the married police officer he loves, and the latter’s wife, as well as the relationship’s ramifications forty years later. “On this occasion from Harry’s team, they said we passed this script to him because he is looking for another movie, he really responded to the material,” recalls Grandage. “It was a very inspiring meeting for me. You probably know but most of the time a director is in a room trying to convince an actor to be in a film. So, it was really interesting being in a room with somebody who had read the novel at least once, I could tell, read the screenplay multiple times, and was talking intelligently about what they wanted to bring to the role of Tom,” exclaims Grandage about Styles. Why the role of Tom? Grandage says that Styles was drawn to the part as it entailed him “playing a complex character of somebody who couldn’t really express their emotions.” “Somebody who was hidden behind themselves almost. Somebody who had almost emotionally shut themselves down from the people and the world they’re in because he was a policeman in a society where it was illegal to be gay. So, basically what do you do in that situation? You pull your card very, very close to your chest and give absolutely nothing away,” adds the director. “So, he was intrigued about playing an inner life rather than an outer life. That interested him. He was interested in playing something internal where very little was given away. In fact, so little was given away, both (characters) Marion and Patrick found it difficult to read him. That’s the point of the character. The only other point of the character is that you, the audience, have got to believe why two people fell in love with him. So, if they didn’t fall in love with him because of his personality giving stuff out, they must have just fallen in love with him because he’s incredibly beautiful and charismatic to look at. So, a combination of those two factors was something Harry understood straight away. He said the inner life of this character is so interesting because the outer life is sort of shut.” “I thought, ‘You get him. You completely get him,” says Grandage. But beyond a mere acting feat, My Policeman meant an even greater deal to Styles as it’s a film that spoke directly to his LGBTQ fanbase. For Styles “being able to connect with (them on) a story that would genuinely mean something and connect and help people understand what it could be like if you start rolling back laws,” emphasizes Grandage. “That was also incredibly important to him,” adds the director, “being involved in a movie that may well help be part of a bigger debate.” Styles was engaged in three full weeks of rehearsals before shooting My Policeman. Says Grandage about working with Styles and the cast, “I wanted all of those discussions, all the rehearsal, even the staging, particularly the intimacy stuff. I wanted all of it to happen in advance. I wanted all of us to have really discussed in some depth about what we wanted to get from the scene, even backstory, coming to the scene, where we’re going.”

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The My Policeman cast at TIFF 2022.

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My Policeman (2022)

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“Actually, we met Harry in person. Yeah, he turned up at my office in London. He had a copy of the book in his pocket. When he went outside he was snapped, and the book cover started to go a bit viral and it just took off.”

-Michael Grandage on casting Harry for the role of Tom during COVID restrictions. (24 November 2022)

via Amazon Studios

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“touch has a memory.”

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Patrick’s apartment in MP is PERFECT. It exceeded my expectations from what I envisioned when reading the novel.

The gays really do be loving our velvet green couches, don’t we? 😭😭😭

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Now that My Policeman is out, I just have to mention from the viewpoint of my artsy oriented brain how gorgeous they thread the theme and visual connections of art and real life throughout the movie. Specially, so much focus on their hands, the touches to marble to the touches of body, the way Patrick sees Tom almost as a piece of art himself, sculpture or painting of everything he desires. It ties beautifully together and really paints (no pun intended that time) the picture of how both Patrick and Marion see Tom and see who he is beyond the surface. I just love it and bravo to Michael and his team for making that happen.

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Film after film: My Policeman (dir. Michael Grandage, 2022)

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https://twitter.com/susanboylestea1/status/1582836443486990337?s=46&t=OoSnJ9GBpaheSzG49-wrPA 😭😭😭

Yes, yes, yes!!! Harry was perfect for this role, not just because he’s a closeted queer man and he can understand that struggle. But I think he also must have deeply understood that character because, like Harry Styles TM, Tom is a blank slate that everyone around him projects their fantasies onto.

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I don't mean to be profane, but aren't objects of beauty there to be worshipped?

My Policeman

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MY POLICEMAN : THE ART OF HANDS (dir. Michael Grandage)

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PrimeVideo: Join Harry Styles, David Dawson, Emma Corrin, Linus Roache, Gina McKee, Rupert Everett and director Michael Grandage in a roundtable discussion about #MyPoliceman.

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My Policeman (2022)