My Policeman: Release Date, Cast, Plot, Trailer, and More
"My Policeman"'s Messy Love Triangle Takes Centre Stage in a New Teaser
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While "My Policeman" isn't a true story, it's inspired by true events, which Roberts opened up about in an interview with The Guardian in February 2012. Roberts revealed she drew inspiration from the life of novelist E.M. Forster, who wrote novels such as "Howards End" and "A Room With a View." His passionate and unconventional 40-year relationship with a policeman named Bob Buckingham and his wife, May, set the basis for "My Policeman."
"A functioning triangular arrangement was firmly established, with the two of them sharing their beloved Buckingham; the long weekends were for May, the short ones for Forster," she wrote. "Such an arrangement may only have worked in conditions of complete silence about the true nature of Forster's relationship with Buckingham; but it did, at least, work."