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The star of Beach Rats, Trust and the forthcoming Kingsman prequel on his east London roots, working with Angelina Jolie and baring all
The punk provocateur Dennis Pennis, played by Paul Kaye, once famously asked Demi Moore whether, if it wasn’t gratuitous and it was tastefully done, she would consider keeping her clothes on in a movie. Harris Dickinson chuckles when I bring up that prickly comic encounter during our Zoom conversation. But the question remains: what are the odds that the 24-year-old actor will appear in something where he isn’t required to get his kit off?
Audiences will be more familiar by now with his armour-plated pecs, washboard stomach and seashell-shaped belly button than they are with their own bodies. In Danny Boyle’s glossy miniseries Trust, he wore ringlets, Speedo swimming trunks and precious little else to play the kidnapped heir John Paul Getty III. In Postcards from London, he disrobed as an erudite rent boy. He even went full-frontal as a closeted Coney Island teen in Beach Rats. “I was up for it, man,” he shrugs. “Female nudity has been part of cinema throughout history so I didn’t mind balancing the playing field.” Continue reading...