More Plaudits For One Direction’s Prince Harry Styles


Harry Styles is known to One Direction fans as their prince. To his fans, Harry can do no wrong, and Styles is well used to receiving plaudits from the music industry. One Direction has after all been honored hundreds of times by the industry. With One Direction currently on hiatus, Harry has turned his hands to acting with his first major movie role in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. Styles fans have little doubt that Harry will be a smash hit as an actor, but cynics will doubtless see his casting in a movie as a means of increasing the hype before the movies release.

There can be no doubt that Harry’s fledgling acting career has created a huge buzz around the movie but with Styles co-starring alongside such movie luminaries as Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, and Tom Rylance, the movie was always going to generate a huge amount of interest.

Interestingly it seems that Styles talents as an actor are being recognized far beyond the One Direction fandom with co-star Cillian Murphy the latest to recognize Harry’s talent. According to the RTE, Murphy has praised Styles acting and insists that Christopher Nolan cast him for his talent alone.

“Harry Styles is great. I had very few scenes with Harry but we got to hang out and I’ve got to say he’s a great, great kid, and really, really funny.

“Above all, Chris Nolan knows talent and would have cast Harry for a reason.

“There’s a long history of musicians moving over into acting and I come from that world myself, so I’m sure he’ll be terrific in the role. I trust Chris implicitly in that.”

Of course, Murphy is not the first of Harry’s co-stars to praise the 22-year-old star. The Independent reports that Mark Rylance recently did likewise and even compared Styles with a young Sean Penn. Rylance insisted that Harry doesn’t need any tips from the more established actors in the cast and says that Styles is “shaping up well.”

“I didn’t know anything about him really other than my 12-year-old niece played me a music video. She adores him. There are girls all over the place trying to get to him — he is one handsome fella with an incredible smile and eyes.

“What’s really surprised me is that [Harry] is really witty, really funny — he really makes me laugh. He’s been ever so brave, not making any fuss.

“Harry seems remarkable… one of those people [who has] — Sean Penn has it too — a kind of panache. I look at them and think, ‘How did you get that? How do you get so that life is easy?’ But he has got a lovely, lovely character. It’s a gift.”

Regular readers of the Inquisitr will know that it was recently reported here that Styles and the Dunkirk crew attracted a huge amount of interest when they were filming in France and the Dorset seaside towns of Weymouth and Swanage. It seems that Harry may just have fallen in love with one of England’s west country and is set to relocate to Somerset from London.

According to ITV News, Harry may be shopping for a new home in or near the beautiful Georgian town of Bath. The video for One Direction’s hit song “You and I.” The video was directed by Harry’s longtime pal Ben Winston.

It was recently widely reported that Styles’ London home was attacked by vandals who spray painted obscenities on an exterior wall, so perhaps a move to a more rural location would suit Harry’s lifestyle. Of course, Styles fans are well aware that Harry has signed a solo recording contract extending to four albums and worth a rumored $80 million. With One Direction telling fans that their hiatus will last until mid-2017, it is hard to see how Harry will have much time to put his feet up. Styles is likely to want to release at least one solo album before any One Direction reunion, but his filming commitments have not left much room for recording at present.

One thing that will delight Harry’s fans is that Yahoo! News are reporting a “Dunkirk source” who says that Styles talks very fondly about his bandmates and has indicated that One Direction is still very much “a thing.” Harry’s fans will revel in this news, not least because they are constantly beset by stories claiming that there is a deep divide behind the scenes in One Direction. It has been suggested that Harry and Louis Tomlinson are not even on speaking terms. This seems unlikely given that pictures recently emerged on social media that appeared to show Louis visiting Harry on the set of Dunkirk.

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