Harry Styles teases “tender” gay sex scenes in My Policeman
Harry Styles says his upcoming film My Policeman highlights what sex is really like between two men. Based on the acclaimed gay novel of the same name from Bethan Roberts, set in 1950s Brighton, the romantic drama stars Emma Corrin as Marion, a schoolteacher who falls in love with a police officer named Tom (Styles).
After meeting museum curator Patrick (David Dawson), however, Tom finds himself torn between both lovers. Due to social constraints of the era, Tom decides that it is safer to marry Marion.
My Policeman will be told in flashbacks, with older versions of Tom, Patrick and Marion being played by Linus Roache, Rupert Everett and Gina McKee, respectively.
Authentically depicting same-sex love was important for director Michael Grandage, Styles recently revealed in his cover story for Rolling Stone, because “so much of gay sex in film is two guys going at it, and it kind of removes the tenderness from it”. “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, and [Michael] wanted to show that it’s tender and loving and sensitive,” he said.
