Harris Dickinson and Rose Gray are afraid of nothing when it comes to long distance affecting their relationship.
Gray, 28, revealed the secret to navigating being apart from Dickinson, 29, who she began dating when the pair were in secondary school, in an interview with People published on Tuesday, August 5.
“I mean, I kind of don’t know any different,” the English singer-songwriter said, adding that “it’s been beautiful to observe” her boyfriend’s acting career “from afar — not from afar, from close, and see it blossom.”
Gray continued, “Also, I think traveling a lot and not always being together has been really powerful. But yeah, it’s been a ride. I think distance really makes the heart grow fonder. I don’t care, I know that’s classic, but it does. It really works. And just having your own thing.”
While the “Cupid” singer and the Babygirl star have kept their relationship mostly private, they have shared that they live together in East London and have a cat named Misty Blue.
“He’s my child,” she told The Face of the feline in 2022. “He’s two-and-a-half and I got him just before lockdown, so he’s glued to me.”
Gray also told The Guardian that Misty Blue is “a lot of work — he’s a prince, but he’s worth it.”
Gray and Dickinson have even put their relationship to the test by working together, as Dickinson directed two of Gray’s music videos: 2019’s “Blue” and 2023’s “Afraid of Nothing.”
“Rose is always playing her music, unfinished versions,” Dickinson told Hunger Magazine in 2023. “And when I write, I sometimes write with music as well. I feel like music often inspires you, inspires ideas, and inspires direction. Regardless of whether I would make it, I’m always thinking, ‘This would be a good video idea for that song.’”
He continued, “It’s also testing for a relationship because you’ve got to open yourself up to a different kind of dynamic. But it definitely helps with the closeness because you can get to things quicker without that sense of carefulness and trepidation around being offensive. We’re so close that we can just be very direct. And I think she was the same with me, where if I had a crap idea, she’d say, ‘No, we’re not doing that.’”
Gray told the outlet that Dickinson “brought an element of chaos and rawness that I’ve never had before in a video. I was able to lose myself completely. I love a pop girlie video, but Harris brought the cinema.”
She explained how their different styles blended together in “Afraid of Nothing,” in which she plays a runaway bride racing through the streets of Hackney, London.
“I come from a music world, and a lot of my videos to this day have felt quite nostalgic and ’90s, and some of them are quite lo-fi,” Gray said. “Harris comes from a real cinema background, and I think the combination of us both just brought about this really interesting premise. It feels like a little film.”
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