“Above all,” he added, “Chris Nolan knows talent and would have cast Harry for a reason.
“Harry Styles is great,” he told the Radio Times this week.
Murphy has insisted however that he believes Styles, who has never acted in a feature film before, was simply right for the part.
When it was announced that Harry Styles was on the Dunkirk cast, it was hard to believe it was not for any reason other than the inevitable ticket sales boost, despite a Christopher Nolan movie starring Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy and more really needing no extra hype.