Trailers for the film have shown the singer – whose solo album recently hit No1 – in his first movie acting role, and it looked incredibly tense.
His character was seen in the sea, gasping for air – leading fans to wonder if his character would even survive until the end.
Now, speaking to Little White Lies, he’s revealed: “A week before we started filming Emma [Thomas, the film’s producer] called me and said, ‘By the way, I forgot to ask… you can swim, right?’
“It was a relief to know I could because there was so much swimming involved.”
Unsurprisingly, it seems the sequences were very tough to shoot.
Styles recalled: “However much you train for it, filming in the water for an hour in full clothes is a gruelling experience.”
Director Christopher Nolan recently explained how Styles came to be part of the cast, revealing that he beat many other hopefuls to the role.
“When we put the cast together, we had some established names,” Nolan told the LA Times. “But for the guys on the beach, we really wanted young unknowns.
“He’s not that unknown, but he’d never done anything as an actor before.
“So he auditioned. I auditioned literally thousands of young men with different combinations of young men. And he had it.”
Dunkirk is out on July 21.
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