Tom Blyth talks about playing a closeted gay cop in 'Plainclothes' and his sex scenes with co-star Russell Tovey.

Set in Syracuse, New York, in the mid ‘90s, Carmen Emmi’s debut feature revolves around a young cop assigned to a sting ...

Carmen Emmi evokes the conflicted conscience of a police officer (Tom Blyth) who develops a dangerous crush on a sexy offender (Russell Tovey).

[Laughs.] Let’s talk about the cast, Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey. In the Sundance festival description, senior programmer Basil Tsiokos credits Tom with a “breakout performance.” How did you ...

English actor Tom Blyth, most recognizable from the MGM+ series “Billy the Kid” and “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” impresses as Lucas, the cop. Blythe’s ...

For Lucas (Tom Blyth), that dichotomy is played out literally in his daily life. As an undercover policeman, his job is to loiter near the men’s bathroom at the local shopping mall and seduce ...

Enter the to-me deeply uncanny experience of watching writer-director Carmen Emmi’s powerfully affecting first feature Plainclothes at this year’s Sundance (where it won the US Dramatic Special Jury ...

Tom Blyth may have starred in Francis Lawrence’s box office hit “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” but that doesn’t mean the British actor is moving on from independent ...

First-time writer-director Carmen Emmi’s aesthetically overworked use of low-grade video and distorted sound is intrusive, but very fine performances from Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey keep you ...

The smoldering chemistry between the two is palpable, and Blyth is especially good as a young man wrestling with his identity. Plainclothes, though, is not strictly a coming-out movie, it’s a ...