This Harry not getting cast situation is pissing me off and here’s why.
To me, it seems fairly obvious that there was a trade in place for Harry. In order to let him do My Policeman, his team made him also do DWD. If he’s gonna take a role that requires him to be raw and authentic, his team needs him to take a hypersexualized and ridiculous role to counteract that to keep up appearances.
Not to mention the lack of advertising on HSHQ’s part for My Policeman. Where’s the feed posts? Where’s the ten emails a day flooding my inbox? They don’t care about this role but that’s nothing new.
Personally, I don’t think they care about his movie career at all. The amount of awful press H has gotten because of DWD is so so upsetting and undeserved. But unfortunately, because of how he’s presented in the media and because of his fan base, no one is going to take him seriously and of course people are just going to find every tiny little crumb to criticize him on.
In addition to making him do the movie, forcing him to fake a relationship with the director under the guise of cheating? With a problematic person no less? That’s a nail in the coffin. If anyone chooses to believe that narrative, there’s no way they’re going to want to take him onto their set because they don’t think he’ll take it seriously—which we know is not the case when it’s something he is passionate about (see: all of michaels comments regarding Harry as Tom)
Harry makes most of his money through music and him straying from that a bit to move to a different sector is not sitting well with Jeff, because he probably isn’t profiting that much off of that part of H’s career. Jeff is a grade A leech if I’ve ever seen one. What manager is constantly with their client? Do you not have any other clients? Or perhaps do you know he’s your biggest client and you want any clout that comes with being associated with him.
All this to say, the DWD situation probably didn’t start as a catalyst to ruin H’s acting career, but when Jeff saw the opportunity, he ran with it full force. He wants to end H’s acting career before it’s even fully started and it’s already starting to happen (ex: the picture above). Harry wants to act, Jeff doesn’t want him to, and there’s a clear and obvious power imbalance—I’ll give you three guesses as to who it is in favor of. Plus, everyone in the entertainment industry is connected the higher up you get, someone as powerful and well connected as the Azoffs could easily tip off movie studios that Harry is not a right fit for roles or discourage them from casting him. Whether it be throwing money at the situation or doing it anonymously, the matter still stands that there’s no way they didn’t have this plan all along to set his acting career up for failure.
It’s been well known in the past that record labels will sabotage their clients for the sake of money and keeping said clients under their control (ex: Louis’ entire solo career before the release of Walls) so part of me wonders if the rumors about H’s contract ending soon are true and Sony/Columbia/full stop may be thinking “If we can’t have you no one can.” That they may be doing all the damage they can before he leaves so if he does, he has a tarnished reputation and people may be wary to take him on. (I’m not too sure about contracts and know that is a confusing matter, so if I got that wrong about his ending soon, let me know!)
I’m conclusion: Harry needs to pull a reputation!Taylor move and disappear off the face of the earth for like two years to just relax and take time away and then come back in his bad bitch era and show everyone they’re wrong <3 (which I think he’s planning on doing anyway but I can elaborate on another post about that if anyone cares about my thoughts hehe)
If you read this far here’s a cookie 🍪 for putting up with my rambling (hopefully it makes sense)