DAZED MAGAZINE-VOL 5-WINTER 2024-DRAMA ISSUE-HARRIS DICKINSON-BABYBOY-Brand New

Description: PLACE YOUR ORDER WITHOUT ANY HESITATIONS!! Harris Dickinson: From beach rat to baby boy Starring opposite Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson is a revelation in Babygirl as a cocky intern embarking on a dangerous liaison with a CEO. Here, he opens up on modern crises in masculinity, and the parts of ourselves we try to keep hidden FILM & TVTHE WINTER 2024 ISSUE Text Kacion Mayers About eight years ago, the then-fledgling actor Harris Dickinson recorded a self-tape in his childhood bedroom. On that residential street parallel to the A406 skimming Highams Park, Dickinson’s dreams of success hinged on the balancing act familiar to those of us who don’t distinctly enunciate or elongate their vowels. He would record these three-minute clips in the hopes of securing a new acting gig, while juggling a range of other jobs including, but not limited to: litter-picking (his personal favourite), bartending, cafe work, construction work and maintaining standards in a Hollister stockroom. Incoming calls from an unknown number were, nine times out of ten, his agent, sending Dickinson bolting up the stairs in search of mobile reception. “I would hope it was a call telling me I’d got a job so I could leave [Hollister], because I hated retail and folding clothes in the basement,” he tells me. For the most part, he’d traipse back down disappointed. Then there was his job as a runner on set for a Stylo G video shot during Notting Hill Carnival. It was his first experience of the annual celebration, and he fondly remembers spending the majority of the time wrangling the Jamaican artist. Or the time his mum made him, rather reluctantly, turn down what he then considered to be his potential big break: three weeks in Nigeria to work on the set of a Nollywood production. “I told her, ‘I’m going to go,’ and she said, ‘Is it paid?’ I said no and she said, ‘Well, you can’t miss three weeks of college. Don’t be stupid!’” Any and every door that opened was a potential opportunity – at least, that’s the way Dickinson saw it. After all, how else would he get the necessary experience or the money to fund those trips to LA so he could chance it during pilot season? “I was trying to climb both ladders at the same time, so as soon as I left school when I was 16, I was working on sets as a runner. I was doing music videos, documentaries… anything to try and get some experience.” We’re at the offices of Devisio Pictures, the film and TV production company he founded with his friend and collaborator, Archie Pearch. Dickinson took the train here. He did the same when travelling to set for Dazed’s cover story. “I was listening to Headie One on The Louis Theroux Podcast,” he tells me, before asking for some new music suggestions and telling me the story behind the big break that inevitably came. The tape he sent off eight years ago was for Beach Rats (2017), an independent film by the American director, Eliza Hittman, which follows Frankie, a 19-year-old boy balancing the heteronormative demands of the day with his late-night homosexual escapades. Dickinson faked his Brooklyn accent on tape, being careful not to raise alarm bells about the necessary (and spenny) visa required to bring the East End boy to the east coast for filming. Nonetheless, he was cast as the lead. “He was subtle, thoughtful, intimate, warm and unforced. He understood intuitively [that] he didn’t need to externalise hegemonic masculinity for the role,” Hittman tells me over email. “[He] was the most professional 18-year-old first-time actor I have ever encountered. While we were working, I never felt like I needed to hold his hand because he was so self-assured.” Since then, Dickinson has quietly made a name for himself, straddling the fence between independent and mainstream cinema. He’s played a Disney prince alongside Angelina Jolie in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), an unlucky but endearing young spy in The King’s Man (2021), and an equally hapless professional wrestler in this year’s The Iron Claw, opposite Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White. But it’s his roles in independent flicks – as a career-criminal drug dealer preying on a young teen (County Lines, 2019); a quarterback whose untimely end unravels a town (Where the Crawdads Sing, 2022); or the young father reconciling a relationship with his estranged daughter (Scrapper, 2023) – that are arguably more noteworthy. Order a copy to know more……… Magazine has a Bar-Code!! Newsstand Edition!!

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