#actor Harry

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Hi Gina, I wasn’t around when My Policeman came out, and I’ve been looking for content, interviews, etc., but I haven’t found much. I even saw that Harry said something kind of unfortunate in an interview about the sex scenes. Do you know if Harry was busy touring during the movie’s release and that’s why he didn’t promote it much? It’s strange since there’s a ton of content for DWD but not much for MP. Or was he restricted from talking more about the film? It’s sad because I feel like MP must’ve meant a lot to him.

Hi, honey. You can see whatever I have in this tag: MY POLICEMAN and MY POLICEMAN REVIEWS

I don’t think any of us know for sure, but it very much seemed like Jeff/people on Harry’s team/possibly Harry himself had a financial stake in DWD doing well. They tied so much of the promo to Harry, his tie, and his fans that it was just embarrassing. Everyone on his team/family made posts about DWD saying how excited they were blah blah blah. It was not quite crickets when it came to MP, but there was nowhere near the type of promo.

Harry’s comment about the sex scenes in MP was a classic case of H not articulating his point very well while trying to be supportive of the film. But the uproar came about because there was so much hate circulating around him because of the “queerbaiting” accusations and because people were sick to death of holivia.

So, he said something along the lines of so often gay sex scenes are just “two men going at it,” but in MP they made an effort to really show how tender the love making was etc. People flew off the handle because “who was this straight man commenting on queer media?” And “there are so many queer films with beautiful sex scenes and he obviously doesn’t watch those kinds of movies” blah blah blah. I felt terrible for him and I remember how down he seemed at his show the night after the uproar happened (I mean, “down” for Harry looks pretty upbeat, but you could tell the difference).

I think MP meant so much to him. He fought for the role. He was so much more serious, articulate, proud, when he was doing MP promo. You could tell how badly he was to be there (as opposed to DWD where it felt to me like l he was just doing his job).

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Harry as Alex / Dunkirk

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10 days of Harry Styles

Day 7 - Harry + Acting

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I'm really glad that Billie talked about her queercoding. She did queercode lots and queer fans picked up on it but her straight fans, of course, dismissed queer fans of reading too much into things. The same happens in Shawn's fandom and even in Louis' despite most of Louis' fans thinking he's queer. Queer coding will be pointed out by queer fans and the straight fans throw tantrums over it. They're so vocal and toxic and they're bullies, and so dismissive of queer fans. They're probably teenage girls and they're angry because it threatens their fantasies. Queercoding is directed at queer fans anyway, it's not for the straight fans but I wish straight fans weren't so dismissive and always thinking that they know better. The vast majority of times they turn out to be wrong! When will they learn. More and more people will CO and say that they were pressured to hide their sexuality but straight fans will continue to believe that closeted people don't exist. More people will say that they lied about being straight, and straight people will continue to believe that if someone says they're straight then they are. It's strange but that's heteronormativity lol. A few times I've questioned myself if I'm reading too much into things and picking up on things that aren't there, or if I'm a bad person for pointing out queercoding. But I realize that celebrities want us to pick up on their queercoding or else they wouldn't do it. They know we follow their every move and they're relying on their queer fans to pick up on queercoding. That's essentially what Billie said, she wanted fans to pick up on it. She was disappointed when people didn't. By ignoring queercoding it is letting these straight fans win. They're trying to gaslight us into thinking we're misreading things when it's them. I agree with you that willingly closeted celebrities don't queercode. I've fallen out with people over this because they defend the closet. I try and put myself in the perspective of a closeted celebrity who wants to come out. Of course they're going to queercode, they want their community to recognize them as one of them. They engage in queer culture because they are queer and they want other queer people to know that. They will allude to being queer in many ways, as they're closeted and it's all they can do other than come out, which they may not be able to do yet because of label contracts. Then I put myself in the perspective of a willingly closeted celebrity. They want people to think they're straight and so why would they queercode and engage in queer culture? They will be doing the opposite, they will be doing everything to come across as straight and they won't do anything to draw speculation about their sexuality. They will probably get married to a woman to put an end to speculation about their sexuality. That would do it. Sorry this is so long! I have lots of thoughts on this

Hi, anon!

It's okay lol. I think picking up on queercoding is important and i don't think it's wrong to point it our for the reasons you mentioned. The only thing we need to be careful of is projecting our own wants onto them (we want them to be queer) and creating confirmation bias. There is nothing wrong in believing someone is queer, because there is nothing wrong with being queer.

About the willingly closeted. You don’t see Tom C*uise queercode. You see him fake marry, have a kid he never sees, jump on couches, act in hyper-masculine action movies and attending F1 races. He's doing everything he can to be seen as the ultimate straight male tm. Haven't seen much queercoding from Leo or Brad*ey either.

I think it's harder for the unwillingly closeted who wants to show they're a part of the community because being queer is a significant part of their identity and how they wish to express themselves. They're supressing themselves and holding back. They so badly want to embrace their culture and be a part of the community.

For Harry it's so bad he begged for the role of a closeted gay police officer to be able to live out his real sexuality for all to see on film. Louis is standing on stage night after night singing "i love him, i hate it" while having to repeatedly deny larry. They've both worn shirts in support of other celebrities coming out right after it happened. They so wish it was them. It must be so incredibly hard for them to be closeted.

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I just can't wrap my head around people actually rooting for 'Eternals 2' to happen. We all saw the mess it was, and let's face it, Marvel's been slumping lately. Honestly, it's probably a good thing Harry won't be acting as Eros again.

Yeah, I'd love to know if that rumour is real or what is the source so we can finally settle on this. It makes sense since the strike pushed everything back and Marvel has not done so well in the past few years.

If this is legit, I just feel bad for Harry. Even if he hadn't started filming, he seemed to be getting ready and putting a lot of work into it for a while now. Let's be real, Harry really started off his acting career on the wrong foot. So while I fully believe a big franchise wasn't the best move for him and this is ✨divine intervention✨ for it not to happen, it still sucks to see things not working out for him as an actor once again...

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"Then he took my fingers from his lips and, pressing them against his groin, he asked, “Can you share?” “Share?” “Can you share me?” I felt him harden, and I nodded. “If that’s what it takes. Yes. I can share.” And then I was on my knees before him."

My Policeman

Harry Styles and David Dawson in My Policeman movie.

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Muggle or modern AU

Hermione and Harry are child actors who are secretly dating. After some pressure from his family, Harry has to leave and Hermione decides to date someone else (Cormac, Malfoy.. a major jerk). Ten years later Hermione & Harry meet up again and fall again for each other while working on a reality show together. Only catch? Hermione's cheating ex is the executive producer, and hates Harry.

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Dame Maggie Smith (1934 - 2024).

[twopoppies]

hey Gina! hope you're doing well.

I've only just been watching My Policeman for the first time. and I've literally paused it around the middle of the movie to come write this to tell u that i LOVE it. I know the story already ofc because I waited till I read the book to watch. and im absolutely in awe of the way it's being portrayed. the shots,the actors, especially david. he has turned me into a fan!!

and i love how up until the scene where Marion starts reading Patrick's diary, the movie could mislead a viewer who has no idea abt the book or plot of the movie into thinking that maybe Marion and Patrick would have a thing going on.

and ofc I love harry in this. at first i couldn't stop thinking about him as harry. but as the story progresses,I've forgotten that. he's done a great job as Tom.

sorryy for this random rant, Gina. have a great day!

I literally watched the movie again last night. It’s so good. And Patrick is terrific. He doesn’t even seem like he’s acting—he draws you in so well. And I know what you mean about Harry blending in to Tom pretty quickly. I was so glad to see that.

I know Harry’s performance is a little uneven, but where he was good (which is the bulk of it IMO), he was so so good.

And yes! I loved how once Marion finds the journals, you start seeing things from Patrick’s POV. I’m so proud of Harry for pushing for that role.

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Harry as Tom Burgess / My Policeman

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You mean we could’ve had Emma and Harry together again in Nosferatu??? We were robbed 😭

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"The Ilama scene was a happy accident! I knew that if I laughed a potentially great and spontaneous moment would be lost." — KYLE MACLACHLAN

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https://twitter.com/JackalineMadden/status/1646614683644751874?t=a4qnahDraWxctoqIfQ-yFw&s=19

This is true?

Ohhh… hmmm, it could be credible since Star Fox/Eros is a part of the Eternals.

I wonder when Harry is about to film those, how big his role is going to be and whether it is in fact the end of Love On Tour, in order for him to focus more on acting?

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But not all queer people are like angry bees in a hive. Some of us actually just want the best actor for the job. We'd never have had Timothee Chalamet in CMBYN if your criteria of 'only openly gay actors need apply' was implemented.

All Larries love that Harry was in My Policeman but I'm guessing you don't? A lot of people think he's bisexual, a few think he's gay, but he's hardly open and a role model any more than Kit was. And Harry is impervious to the lgbt community getting angry about what he does, unlike Kit.

Hello, anon (i think you are the same)!

I have NEVER said that only openly queer actors can play queer roles. I'm not out here yelling about the casting of Nick and TZP in RWRB now am i? No, i'm applauding it! This lack of reading comprehension you're showing is exhausting. There is a major difference between being closeted but recognised and accepted as queer by the queer community, and being closeted and presenting straight to the point of the queer community being uncomfortable with you representing them.

Harry is gay and that's why us larries applaud his gay MP role. Harry has been getting critizism for taking the role by people of the queer community, because they don't recognise him as queer or think he's not in a position to represent them. I don't know how you missed that. Hence the queerbaiting accusations against him as well, that's growing by the day.

TZP is married to a man and the queer community accepts him as queer representation, even though he's closeted. So it's not about being in or out of the closet, it's about if you're in a postition to represent the queer community and accurately portray the queer experience. All this is usually about if you're recognised as queer and how much straight pushing you do. Being recognised as queer depends on if you're straight passing or not. If you're straight passing, straight presenting or straight acting (making out with/showing pda with women) like H or Kit, you'll have a harder time being recognised as queer, accepted as a queer role model and deemed worthy of representing the queer community.

Back when CMBYN came out, the queer community was just happy to finally have a queer movie go mainstream. They couldn’t afford to also ask for the actors to be part of the queer community. It's the same with trans movies or movies about indigenous people. Now it's frowned upon if you put straight, white, privileged people in minority roles, especially in mainstream movies. So things have changed. You don’t put Jar*d Le*o in a trans role when Hunt*r Sch*fer is right there. Directors know now that putting straight actors in queer roles will give them backlash. So they've mostly stopped doing it (i say mostly because some of the actors i think are straight might be queer).

If you are closeted and taking queer roles the best way to go about it is to not push a het agenda at the same time. That is provoking. Show understanding and compassion with the queer community. Acknowledge them, understand where they're coming from, and you'll be welcomed. There is a reason why Pa*l Me*cal, TZP and Nick don't get shit for taking queer roles, but Kit and Harry do.

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