Christopher
Nolan talks about casting Harry Styles in 'Dunkirk'
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When you heard that
Harry Styles was starring in a gritty
Christopher Nolan thriller
about a World War II evacuation, you could have been forgiven for expecting the worst.
And if you
did go into the whole thing feeling cynical, chances are you may have been surprised at just how good the former One Directioner actually turned out to be.
Christopher Nolan wasn't, though. In the
BBC Radio 1 interview above (skip to 5:00), the
Dunkirk director explains that he wasn't surprised by it at all.
"My job [...] is to meet someone, audition them, look at them, and figure out what they can do," he explains. "But I was very pleased by people's reaction to what
Harry did."
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