Harry Styles is caught up in an aching love triangle in first teaser for My Policeman

The queer period piece, which also stars The Crown's Emma Corrin, will be in select theaters October 21

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Harry Styles is caught up in an aching love triangle in first teaser for My Policeman
Harry Styles in My Policeman Screenshot: Prime Video

Prime Video has shared the first teaser trailer for its Harry Styles-led drama My Policeman, which follows a closeted police officer in 1957 as he navigates a love triangle with his wife and a male museum curator.

Based on Bethan Roberts’ 2012 novel, My Policeman operates within two time periods: the first is during 1957, when Tom Burgess (Styles) first meets his wife Marion (Emma Corrin) and museum curator Patrick Hazelwood (David Dawson), he begins an affair with the latter of the two. The second timeline occurs forty years later, when Marion takes Patrick in after he suffers a stroke, ushering in turmoil within her and Tom’s marriage.

The first teaser, which follows the two first-look images Prime Video shared from the film last week, is full of yearning glances and lingering portrait shots of Styles that feel right out of a Directioner’s fan-cam video.

The audience first meets Patrick and Tom as they stand together taking in a painting of a stormy sea. “So how does it make you feel?” Patrick asks Tom. The answer, come to find out, is far more complicated than it seems. As Tom also connects with Marion and eventually weds her (while maintaining a “friendship” with Patrick), a deeply illicit love triangle forms.

Emotions run high in the short clip, with Patrick and Tom brawling and Marion sobbing as she burns Tom’s uniform in a fire pit. And Tom finally answers Patrick’s question about the painting. “You can sense the waves,” Tom muses. “You know how strong they are, like swimming in rough surf. You feel they could crush you or take you under. You just have to let it take hold of you.”

My Policeman will be in select theaters October 21, and available for streaming on Prime Video starting November 4.

4 Comments

  • milligna000-av says:

    “Let it take hold of you” would work very well as a tag line for SO many other films.

  • haggispuddin-av says:

    I am not much of a One Direction fan, and I don’t know if Harry Styles will pull off the role, but as someone who loves to see more queerness in the public eye, he’s doing a fantastic job of that. I think it’s silly that so many people make hay over him either being straight and “queerbaiting”, or more realistically over the fact that he refuses to acknowledge any obligation to present under a specific term; anybody pushing against toxic gender norms is good in my book (especially if it isn’t directly tied to brand sponsorships with Urban Outfitters or some shit).

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