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Harry Styles returns to festival circuit at Toronto International Film Fest after Chris Pine spitgate drama-Alicia Adejobi-Entertainment – Metro
Harry was joined by co-star Emma Corrin at the film’s press conference in Ontario.
Harry Styles was in great spirits as he arrived at the Toronto International Film Festival (Picture: Getty)
Harry Styles isn’t letting recent film festival dramas keep him away from the scene as he popped up at Toronto International Film Festival this weekend to promote his upcoming movie My Policeman.
It was only last week that the As It Was singer was bizarrely accused of spitting in the lap of his Don’t Worry Darling co-star Chris Pine at Venice Film Festival, thanks to a viral clip that sparked a thousand theories.
Pine’s rep rubbished the claims while Harry himself joked about the controversy at a show on his Love On Tour stint.
With the spitgate drama now somewhat behind him, the pop star can now focus on promoting his other new movie, My Policeman, which received one of its first screenings at TIFF on Sunday.
Harry, 28, attended the film’s press conference alongside co-stars Emma Corrin, Rupert Everett, David Dawson and director Michael Grandage in Ontario.
During the event, the former One Direction star opened up about how he got into the mind of playing a repressed gay character.
The Watermelon Sugar singer looked dapper in a pinstriped suit (Picture: Getty Images)
‘I think he’s very curious,’ Styles said in a clip obtained by 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 realising 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.’
My Policeman is set in the 1950s and sees Harry star as policeman Tom, who falls in love with a schoolteacher in Brighton. However, he soon begins a same-sex romance with a museum curator despite homosexuality being illegal at the time.
Harry, here with co-star David Dawson, opened up about playing a repressed gay man in My Policeman (Picture: Getty Images)
He was also joined by co-star Emma Corrin who plays his schoolteacher lover (Picture: Getty Images)
My Policeman received glowing reviews and looks set to be Harry’s Oscar contender (Picture: Getty Images)
My Policeman, starring Styles, Corrin and Dawson, is set to arrive in UK cinemas on October 21 (Picture: PA)
The romantic drama has received glowing reviews following its TIFF screening, with Cinemablend noting: ‘#MyPoliceman truly moved me. It’s an important story that shows how many queer folks the system left behind in past generation. Harry Styles had a strong performance as the titular character.’
Another critic at The Cinemaholic tweeted: ‘My Policeman is surprisingly very, very good. The kind of period romance drama that Hollywood should make more. And yes, Harry Styles is terrific.’
Tipping Harry for Academy Award glory, one predicted: ‘Harry Styles looks like he’ll be gunning for an Oscar nom with his truly inventive performance in MY POLICEMAN. Styles takes the cliché-closeted-gay-role and rethinks it in a completely modern, post-metoo way. He’s near perfect in every scene!’
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Harry will no doubt be glad the focus is shifting from the dramas of the Don’t Worry Darling promo run in Venice last week.
The actor laughed off the claims that he spat on his co-star Pine, joking at his recent tour show: ‘This is our 10th show at Madison Square Garden, it is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful to be back in New York.
‘I just popped very quickly to Venice to spit on Chris Pine but fear not, we’re back.’
Chris’ spokesperson also hit back at the speculation, stating: ‘This is a ridiculous story — a complete fabrication and the result of an odd online illusion that is clearly deceiving and allows for foolish speculation.
‘Just to be clear, Harry Styles did not spit on Chris Pine.
‘There is nothing but respect between these two men and any suggestion otherwise is a blatant attempt to create drama that simply does not exist.’
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