Harry Styles leaves boyband days behind to become acting’s newest recruit

Former One Direction singer Harry Styles has dispensed with his boyband heartthrob status to play a regular soldier in Christopher Nolan’s WW2 drama, Dunkirk, says Shilpa Ganatra.

THE first time Harry Styles appears on the windswept, grey beaches of Christopher Nolan’s film, Dunkirk, you’d be forgiven for doing a double-take.

Yes, it is the former boyband heartthrob, only this time his famous good looks have been scrubbed off him in favour of WWII grittiness.