Movies See Harry Styles as a closeted gay cop in first look at My Policeman Styles joins David Dawson and Emma Corrin in the historical queer romance. By Nick Romano Nick Romano Nick is an entertainment journalist based in New York, NY. If you like pugs and the occasional blurry photo of an action figure, follow him on Twitter @NickARomano. EW's editorial guidelines Published on June 9, 2022 10:28AM EDT Don't Worry Darling isn't the only Harry Styles movie performance to look out for this year. Amazon released the first photos of the Harry's House pop singer in My Policeman, in which he plays a closeted police officer who wants to lay some "Watermelon Sugar" on a handsome museum curator. The streaming studio also announced that the film, directed by Michael Grandage (Genius), will be released in theaters this Oct. 21 before hitting Amazon Prime Video Nov. 4. David Dawson, Emma Corrin, and Harry Styles star in 'My Policeman,' a romance about a closeted officer. Amazon Prime Based on the book of the same name by author Bethan Roberts, My Policeman is set in 1957 Brighton. Styles plays Tom, who's gay but starts dating a schoolteacher, Marion (The Crown's Emma Corrin), at a time when homosexuality was illegal. He also develops a secret relationship with Patrick (Peaky Blinders' David Dawson), that curator we mentioned. Tensions rise amid the cultural climate when Tom decides to marry Marion, which doesn't end up making anyone happy. "The whole point of Tom is that he is a character who is confused," Grandage told Vanity Fair. "It's made more problematic by the fact that he's a policeman, and he's in a career that is about upholding the law. And the law in the country at the time is about everything he feels — the complexity of it is something that whoever was going to play younger Tom and older Tom needed to somehow understand and absorb." Harry Styles stars in 'My Policeman' as a closeted cop named Tom who marries a schoolteacher (Emma Corrin). Amazon Prime My Policeman is arriving amid a bounty of modern queer romance stories on screen, including Heartstoppers, Fire Island, Bros., and Queer as Folk. Styles, who's dating actress-director Olivia Wilde, doesn't talk much about his own sexuality. Though he regularly waves LGBTQ Pride flags at his concerts and has become known for his David Bowie-esque gender-bending sartorial looks. The actor-singer will be seen opposite the likes of Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, and Gemma Chan in Wilde's Don't Worry Darling come Sept. 23. The cinema this year is slowly turning into Harry's (Second) House. Related content: Baz Luhrmann says he passed on Harry Styles to play Elvis because he's 'already an icon' Mick Jagger calls resemblance to Harry Styles 'superficial' If Jennifer Grey has her way, Harry Styles will be Baby's new boy toy in the Dirty Dancing sequel