Harry Styles Talks Gaining Male Fans, Becoming A Movie Star, His Love Life & More

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Harry Styles is doing it all. The “As It Was” singer is on the new cover of Rolling Stone magazine, and in the issue he opens up about his blockbuster single, his dating life, and becoming a movie star.

Over the summer, the marquee single from his latest album Harry’s House spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, which he says has led to a more diverse audience than his teen idol days. “‘As It Was’ is definitely the highest volume of men that I would get stopping me to say something about it,” he says. “That feels like a weird comment because it’s not like men was the goal.

It’s just something I noticed.” READ MORE: Harry Styles Helps Couple Get Engaged While Performing In Portugal Among the downsides of all that success, though, has been a lot of attention on his private and love lives from fans, which has often included fans mistreating his romantic partners. “It’s obviously a difficult feeling to feel like being close to me means you’re at the ransom of a corner of Twitter or something.

I just wanted to sing. I didn’t want to get into it if I was going to hurt people like that,” Styles says. The 28-year-old’s current partner is also his “Don’t Worry Darling” director, Olivia Wilde, who praises his performance in the film, highlighting one particularly big scene. “The camera operator followed him as he paced around the stage like a kind of wild animal.