Alexander Skarsgård Opens Up About What Makes The Sex Scenes In His New BDSM Biker Romance So Unique

Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård in PIllionAlexander Skarsgård has opened up about his new film Pillion, and how the movie’s much-hyped sex scenes differ from other projects he’s appeared in over the years.The Emmy winner’s latest film features Harry Potter actor Harry Melling as Colin, a young man who embarks on a BDSM relationship with a biker gang leader, Ray, played by Alexander. Pillion became one of the Cannes Film Festival’s most talked-about films when it premiered earlier this year, not least because of its unique premise and graphic sexual content.Speaking to Variety about making the film in an interview published earlier this week, Alexander reflected on how he and Harry worked with intimacy coordinator Robbie Taylor Hunt to ensure that these sex scenes felt real in their awkwardness.“We wanted it to be clumsy and weird,” he explained. “On screen, [sex] often looks like a ballet, but [it] can be awkward and funny.”“I often find sex on screen quite boring,” he continued. “Usually, all the tension is leading up to that moment, and then once people are in the sack…”Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling at a photo-call for their film Pillion at this year's Cannes Film FestivalAlexander went on to praise director Harry Lighton, who he said “didn’t put on silk gloves to tell this story” and instead “embraced the awkwardness” of the sex sequences between the two central characters.Critics have already been full of praise for the sex scenes in Pillion, with Vanity Fair hailing the film as “frank, kinky [and] utterly idiosyncratic” and The Daily Beast describing it as “quite possibly the sexiest movie at Cannes this year, that’s also delightfully tender”.And while Pillion certainly doesn’t shy away from sex, orgies or scenes of BDSM, Alexander also thinks the director approached these themes in a “beautiful” way rather than leaning into shock value.“I think my mum will like this movie,” the True Blood star insisted. “[Even though] it’s about kinky gay bikers and a D/s relationship, [it’s] portrayed with the perfect amount of respect, but not too much respect.”And as much as Pillion’s sex scenes have so far dominated conversation around the film, it turns out the movie is not nearly as graphic as it could have been. The Big Little Lies star noted: “The sex scenes weren’t graphic for the sake of being graphic. We shot way more graphic stuff than you’ve seen just now.”Earlier this year, director Harry Lighton told Variety during another interview that more daring sex scenes in Pillion had been cut so the audience didn’t end up “feeling they were being deliberately shocked by an image”.“There was one close up of a dick, a hard dick … like down the barrel of the lens. And after watching the film on that ‘fuck-off’ screen I thought, yeah, cutting it was probably the right decision!” he quipped.MORE FILM NEWS:This Trailer For Alexander Skarsgård's BDSM Biker Romance Has Already Got Us Hot Under The CollarHim Star Julia Fox Has Her Say After Co-Star Marlon Wayans' Response To The Film's CriticsEmerald Fennell Explains Why She Cast Jacob Elordi And Margot Robbie In Wuthering Heights Amid Backlash

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