The singer, apparently unprompted, spoke about arguments individuals have in an effort to outline his sexuality.
“Generally individuals say, ‘You’ve got solely publicly been with ladies,’ and I do not assume I’ve publicly been with anybody,” he informed Rolling Stone’s Brittany Spanos. “If somebody takes an image of you with somebody, it does not imply you are selecting to have a public relationship or one thing.”
Types additionally nodded to the general public fascination along with his sexuality when discussing his different movie due out this 12 months, “My Policeman,” wherein he performs a closeted homosexual police officer within the Fifties.
“I believe everybody, together with myself, has your individual journey with determining sexuality and getting extra snug with it,” he mentioned of the interval drama and its common themes. “It isn’t like, ‘it is a homosexual story about these guys being homosexual.’ It is about love and about wasted time to me.”
The “As It Was” singer additionally mentioned that followers criticizing his girlfriend on-line “would not make (him) really feel good.”
“It is clearly a troublesome feeling to really feel like being near me means you are on the ransom of a nook of Twitter or one thing,” he mentioned. “I simply wished to sing. I did not wish to get into it if I used to be going to harm individuals like that.”