Directed by Michael Grandage and premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, 'My Policeman' is a reminder of the dangers of the recent past.
What appealed to Corrin, who uses they/them pronouns, about the story of “My Policeman” was the way in which it was both a tale of the past but also very much had things to say about the present. Even in the time that the film was being made, there has been a rise in anti-LGBTQ legislation and sentiment in the United States and around the world. The film’s depiction of the impact that prejudice can have on people’s lives and relationships takes on a newfound relevance and animating energy.
“Reading the script, in many ways, this story felt quite personal,” said Dawson. “To me, I’m a gay man myself and to delve back into my own country’s history and where I grew up and where I live and to acknowledge that this could have been my life if I’d had been a young man in fifties Britain, in my head it’s like a jigsaw of how we are today is because of things that we’ve done before. That made it very special to work on.
“One of the things that I have found interesting generally in making this film, it’s gone somewhere, I suppose, to explain prejudice from a certain generation,” said Grandage, “which is that the prejudice that generation felt wasn’t necessarily because of prejudice against the act or people that might had been involved. It was more because they were law abiding citizens and the law told them it was wrong.
Corrin’s two upcoming roles make for an intriguing counterpoint to one another. In “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” an adaptation of the notorious novel by D.H. Lawrence directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Corrin plays a woman in the throes of a passionate affair, expressing an ascending inner light of self-discovery that shines brightly, while in “My Policeman” one sees that light dimmed or even snuffed out by misunderstanding and prejudice.
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