Harry Styles is set to return to the big screen with Don't Worry Darling following his brief appearance in the MCU's Eternals as Eros. This won't be the first time the musician has been a major part of a feature film, as Styles starred in Dunkirk for Christopher Nolan in 2017. However, two significant roles are hardly enough for Styles to get a feel for the acting world. He admits to Variety that he still feels like an amateur during his upcoming film's Venice Film Festival premiere.
"Making music is a really personal thing. There are aspects of acting where you're drawing from experience a bit, but for the most part you're pretending to play someone else. That's what I find the most interesting about it. They can aid each other in a way. Anytime you get to view the world through a different lens, it can help create whichever way it goes. I find it really different. I think the fun part if that you never know what you're doing in either of them. Music I've done for longer, but what I like about acting is I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing."
Don't Worry Darling stars Styles alongside Florence Pugh, Olivia Wilde, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan, Kate Berlant, and Nick Kroll. The film follows a 1950s housewife (Pugh) living with her husband (Styles) in a utopian experimental community when she begins worrying that his glamorous company may hide disturbing secrets. Speaking on the movie, Styles said it was great to have a world built around them while acting on Don't Worry Darling.
"It's fun to play in worlds that aren't necessarily your own. This [Don't Worry Darling] world is supposedly so perfect. It was fun to play pretend in it. It's like driving fun cars. We were lucky to have that world built so well around us, so we could play in reality instead of pretending everything was nice."
Styles has stayed relatively quiet despite the controversy surrounding Pugh, Wilde, and Shia LaBeouf, which has dominated the news cycle before the premiere of their film. Don't Worry Darling is set to arrive in theaters later this month, on Sept. 23.
Harry Styles Will Return to the Theater in October
Harry Styles makes his way to the big screen with Don't Worry Darling on Sept. 23, and he will return with a different film the next month. My Policeman will be the third movie with a significant role from Styles, set to arrive in select theaters and Amazon's Prime Video. The official synopsis for the film reads: "The arrival of Patrick into Marion and Tom's home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previously."
My Policeman will star Styles alongside Linus Roache, Rupert Everett, Gina McKee, David Dawson, Emma Corrin, Andrew Tiernan, and Jack Bandeira. Michael Grandage will helm the picture, responsible for films including Red and Genius. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Bethan Roberts.
My Policeman will make its way to Prime Video and select theaters on Oct. 21.