Emma Corrin is just 26-years-of-age, but they’ve already played some iconic roles and starred opposite huge names.
The Brit’s portrayal a young Princess Diana in The Crown earned the series a Golden Globe. In The Policeman, Corrin plays Marion Taylor, a nurse marries Tom, a policeman (Harry Styles), only to discover that the love of her life is gay and in a relationship with Patrick (David Dawson), museum curator who’s also a very close friend.
“The story follows Marion and Tom and what Marion ends up doing and the decisions she makes to expose her husband and, his lover,” Corrin tells WHO ahead of the film’s release.
Set in the 1950s, its storyline driven by revenge in a complicated era where same-sex relationships were taboo.
How would you describe My Policeman?
Emma Corrin: I would describe it as a beautiful film with a lot of heart and soul. I think it’s also rare in the sense that it’s a film that explores a love triangle in a very unique way. It’s the kind of film that will provoke discussion. I’m excited for people to see it.
Did you, Harry Styles and David Dawson do anything to form a bond? Your characters are very close friends in the film.
EC: That really just happened through the rehearsal process. We were very lucky that we had those two or three weeks because it’s very rare to get all that time to rehearse in film. We came away from that time feeling very very safe and comfortable with one another.
How challenging was it to play someone so hellbent on revenge?
EC: It was challenging but also really intriguing because found that I really needed to think about how to justify what she does and why with myself. Obviously, the time she was living in was very, very different to now. Marion is very much a product of that time and the society around her then. What really fascinated me was her youth and this sense of her being like that first time you fall in love and the intensity of feeling that you experience. The fallout of that that can leave you feeling so hurt and so fearful. I felt that was the thing driving her to do some of the things that she does. There is real complexity to her and this friendship between the three of them and the love that they all have for each other.
What does the film say about the importance of acceptance?
EC: Well, each of the three characters have very different journeys of acceptance but with similar themes running through them. For Patrick and Tom, obviously it’s about the acceptance of themselves in a society which is not allowing them to love who they want to love and to be themselves at all. For Marion, it’s about accepting her as the product of a society which has determined how she should think. That ends up driving her to do things she lives to regret for a long time. Marion certainly ends up living a lot of her life never truly being able to own up to what she did to her friend.
How do you sum up what Marion did now your experience of playing her is over?
EC: When you meet her at the start of the film, she is incredibly young. Marion has this beautiful naïveté but also this really intense stubbornness. I think she falls so in love with Tom and then she is convinced that it is going to work and that he feels exactly the same way her. When she discovers the truth about him and Patrick, so much of her anger isn’t really to do with their relationship. She just doesn’t really understand. She is hurt because she was wrong and all of her worst fears are confirmed. That’s the anger that fuels her to do what she does. There is a moment of sort of euphoria and liberation at the end but it takes her a long time to accept herself and find redemption.
My Policeman is available to stream on Prime Video from Nov. 4
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