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Why Harris Dickinson Put His Rising Acting Career on Hold to Direct Cannes Premiere ‘Urchin’: ‘I Didn’t Work as an Actor for a Year’
'Urchin' premieres in Cannes just three years after Dickinson led the cast for Palme d'Or winner 'Triangle of Sadness'
When someone has an acting career in the sharp ascendancy, casting directors lining up to offer starry roles and a newly-crowned label as Hollywood’s latest It Boy, it’s unlikely that they’d then opt to take a break from the screen for an entire year. But his commitment to “Urchin” has now brought Dickinson to the Cannes Film Festival, and just three years after he made a breakout splash leading the ensemble cast of Ruben Ostlund’s Palme d’Or winner “Triangle of Sadness,” playing a one half of a model couple whose luxury cruise holiday goes comically awry. “We spent the majority of it on the street, late at night — and there was the sheer amount of locations and the complexities of the script.” For director of photography, they brought on board Josée Deshaies (“Passages,” “Saint Laurent”) who, despite her body of work, had never actually set foot in London.
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