Since its announcement, the frenzy surrounding the upcoming film My Policeman has been focused mainly on Harry Styles’ casting as one half of the story’s central same-sex relationship. On the other side of that relationship is David Dawson, a British actor best known for his roles in The Last Kingdom and various BBC dramas. In My Policeman, Dawson plays Patrick Hazelwood, a museum curator whose midcentury clandestine relationship with an attractive young policeman named Tom (Styles) could threaten both of their lives.
As a gay man, making was certainly an emotional experience for Dawson, but also educational and rewarding. “It’s certainly stayed with me and in the most beautiful of ways,” he says. connected via Zoom with the actor—who was logging in from a friend’s (un-airconditioned) London apartment—on a warm August
