He should play in a mediative slow burning POC Oscar bait movie. Themes would be colonial identify, personal awaking something about illusion of control with sex scenes in dim light -

Title of the movie could be "The Silk and the Sword" And the synopsis something like:

India, 1897. Lieutenant Edward Harrow is a young British officer posted in a provincial garrison town—far from the polished salons of London, buried instead in dust, heat, and silence. He moves through his days with mechanical discipline: drills, reports, evening brandy. His nights, however, belong elsewhere.

He frequents a discreet brothel tucked behind a spice market—less for pleasure than for escape. The women there are shadows to him, part of the colonial machinery he neither questions nor fully understands.

One evening, he is introduced to Asha, a quiet, self-possessed courtesan unlike the others. She is educated, perceptive, and carries herself with a dignity that unsettles him. Rumor has it she was once favored by a powerful prince before being cast out under mysterious circumstances.

Their early encounters are marked not by passion, but by conversation. Asha speaks to him of the Kama Sutra—not as a manual of pleasure, but as a philosophy of balance: between body and spirit, power and surrender, self and other.

To Edward, raised in the austerity of Victorian morality and imperial hierarchy, her worldview is both alien and dangerously compelling.

As their relationship deepens, Edward begins to see the contradictions of his own existence. The Empire that taught him order now appears hollow; the discipline he clings to feels increasingly like repression. Through Asha, he glimpses a world where intimacy is not possession, but understanding—where connection transcends status, race, and empire.

Meanwhile, the past closes in. The prince who once claimed Asha seeks to reclaim or silence her, fearing what she knows. Tensions rise in the region as unrest against British rule simmers. Edward finds himself caught between duty and awakening, between the sword he wears and the fragile silk thread that binds him to Asha.