US EditionAlexander Skarsgård Is a Dom Motorcycle Daddy in First 'Pillion' Trailer
The film won Best Screenplay at Cannes and holds a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score based on 27 reviews, exploring a queer BDSM relationship within a biker gang.
- On Wednesday, A24 unveiled the first official trailer for Pillion, opening with a bar meet-cute and spotlighting Alexander Skarsgård in leather and steamy scenes.
- Harry Lighton wrote and directed Pillion as his feature debut, adapting Adam Mars‑Jones’s 2020 novel Box Hill after his short film Wren Boys.
- Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling star as Ray and Colin, while the production worked with the Gay Bikers Motorcycle Club, blending romance and comedy around their unconventional relationship.
- At the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on May 18, Pillion premiered in Un Certain Regard, receiving a seven-minute standing ovation and winning Best Screenplay and the Palm Dog prize.
- Pillion is due in UK cinemas on November 28 via Picturehouse, with A24 planning a February 2026 U.S. release around Valentine’s Day, and Lighton said he trimmed raunchier scenes before Cannes while Skarsgård hinted at an alternate cut.
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Pillion: Alexander Skarsgård’s gay biker asserts dominance in kinky first trailer
The first trailer for A24’s queer BDSM romance Pillion has landed, and it’s equal parts raunchy and hilarious. Directed by Harry Lighton, in his feature debut, the film follows Colin, a “weedy wallflower letting life pass him by,” and Ray, the “impossibly handsome leader of a motorbike club” he becomes the submissive to. Henry Melling, known for his performance as Dudley Dursley in that wizarding franchise and Harry Baltic in The Queen’s Gambit,…
Alexander Skarsgård dominates in first trailer for BDSM-romance film Pillion
The first trailer for Alexander Skarsgård’s queer BDSM-romance film, Pillion, is out and the Swedish actor certainly dominates. The “kinky” film stars the True Blood actor as the leather-clad biker daddy Ray, who entices the meek traffic warden and barbershop-quartet fan Colin (Harry Potter‘s Harry Melling) into a dom/sub relationship. We first see Colin performing in a pub as a member of his dad’s (Douglas Hodge) barber shop quartet. Across the…
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