{"id":1450734,"date":"2025-09-10T16:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/?p=1450734"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:41:46","slug":"pillion-gay-bdsm-film-alexander-skarsgard-harry-melling-new-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/films\/pillion-gay-bdsm-film-alexander-skarsgard-harry-melling-new-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Pillion: Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd is a dom gay biker in new look at BDSM romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New images have\u00a0<em>finally<\/em> been unveiled of Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd and Henry Melling in their gay BDSM romance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/?s=Pillion\"><em>Pillion<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Lighton (<em>Wren Boys<\/em>) makes his feature debut with the highly-anticipated drama, which chronicles the romance between Colin, a \u201cweedy wallflower letting life pass him by,\u201d and Ray, the \u201cimpossibly handsome leader of a motorbike club\u201d he becomes the submissive to.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pillion<\/em>\u2019s official synopsis reads: \u201cRay uproots Colin from his dreary suburban life, introducing him to a community of kinky, queer bikers and taking all sorts of virginities along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut as Colin steps deeper into Ray\u2019s world of rules and mysteries, he begins to question whether the life of a 24\/7 submissive is for him. Has he found his calling, or simply swapped one form of suffocation for another?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Melling, known for his performance as Dudley Dursley in that wizarding franchise and Harry Baltic in<em> The Queen\u2019s Gambit, <\/em>stars as Colin, while Ray is played by the <em>True Blood<\/em> and <em>Big Little Lies<\/em> icon.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, only one image from the film had been released \u2013 Skarsg\u00e5rd striding down the street in full leather, while Melling\u2019s character gazes at him with a mix of admiration, lust and submission.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Team Picturehouse have unveiled new stills (via the latest issue of Picturehouse Recommends): one captures Skarsg\u00e5rd fixing Melling with a smouldering stare, while another shows Melling at night clutching a blonde miniature dachshund.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eagle-eyed fans might&#39;ve caught a glimpse in the newest issue of Picturehouse Recommends (on stand now!), but here&#39;s an exclusive new look at Pillion, premiering at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BFI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BFI<\/a>&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LFF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LFF<\/a> before hitting screens on 28 Nov. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8Pq0z4hQ91\">pic.twitter.com\/8Pq0z4hQ91<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Team Picturehouse (@picturehouses) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/picturehouses\/status\/1965430463616503868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Pillion<\/em> premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it won Best Screenplay and the Palm Dog, and earned nominations for both the Cam\u00e9ra d\u2019Or and Queer Palm.<\/p>\n<p>Since then,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/films\/pillion-alexander-skarsgard-harry-melling-sex-scenes\/\"> it has garnered universal acclaim<\/a>, holding a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics praising the leads\u2019 performances, Lighton\u2019s bold direction and its unexpectedly tender love story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/may\/18\/pillion-review-50-shades-of-bsdm-wallace-and-gromit-in-brilliant-bromley-biker-romance\">In <em>The Guardian<\/em>\u2019s review<\/a>, writer Peter Bradshaw said Lighton has \u201ccreated something funny and touching and alarming \u2013 like a cross between Alan Bennett and Tom of Finland with perhaps a tiny smidgen of what could be called a BDSM Wallace and Gromit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s basically what <em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> should have been,\u201d he continued (we&#8217;re listening!), before revealing a scene in which Ray \u201corders Colin to meet him behind Primark at 5pm for a blowjob\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/festivals\/alexander-skarsgard-kinky-sex-bdsm-cannes-pillion-premiere-1236390665\/\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a> described the film as having \u201ckinky sex, BDSM Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd and gimp masks\u201d in their headline, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/pillion-review-alexander-skarsgard-harry-melling-lgbtq-1236219700\/\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> said <em>Pillion<\/em> \u201cis less about the shock factor of some very graphic gay kink than the nuances of love, desire and mutual needs within a sub\/dom relationship\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1433602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pillion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pillion.jpg 695w, https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pillion-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pillion-590x370.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pillion-105x65.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The same publication noted that Ray and Colin\u2019s first sex scene is \u201cless than stellar\u201d as a result of the latter\u2019s lack of experience. Other scenes they revealed include Colin \u201cknitted out in ass-less wrestling gear\u201d while wrestling Ray on the floor, being instructed to wear a butt plug and \u201cgetting vigorously plowed on a table\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>THR<\/em> also said <em>Pillion<\/em> is \u201cfull of penises\u201d, questioned whether or not they\u2019re prosthetics, and ultimately praised the film as a \u201ccheeky delight\u201d and \u201cunique queer love story\u201d. Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/pillion-harry-melling-alexander-skarsgard-feature-cannes-awards-insider\"><em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a> reported that <em>Pillion<\/em> \u201ccomes complete with orgies, cock rings and boot-licking\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the novel <em>Box Hill<\/em> by Adam Mars-Jones,\u00a0<em>Pillion<\/em> also stars Douglas Hodge as Pete, Lesley Sharp as Peggy, Anthony Welsh as Darren and Scissor Sisters star Jake Shears as Kevin, another sub.<\/p>\n<p>It will be released theatrically in the UK by Picturehouse on 28 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New images have\u00a0finally been unveiled of Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd and Henry Melling in their gay BDSM romance, Pillion. 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