Alexander Skarsgard will play a motorcycle club boss who has a submissive gay lover in the upcoming movie called Pillion.
Queen’s Gambit actor Harry Melling plays the shy Colin, whose monotonous suburban life is shattered when he meets Alexander’s character, Ray.
Ray enters a sexual relationship with Colin and integrates him into his queer biker environment, injecting his life with a new dose of excitement and mystique.
However, Colin eventually begins to feel stifled by the fact that he always has to occupy the submissive role in his dynamic with Ray.
BAFTA-nominated short film director Harry Lighton makes his feature debut with Pillion, which has been called a “funny, dirty romance with heart.” Variety.
Alexander Skarsgard will play a motorcycle club boss who has a submissive gay lover in the upcoming film called Pillion; photographed last March
The Queen’s Gambit actor Harry Melling, pictured last October, plays the shy Colin, whose monotonous suburban life is shattered when he meets Alexander’s character Ray.
Pillion is scheduled to film in the UK during the summer, but a release date has not been officially revealed at this time.
Alexander has spoken freely in the past about how comfortable he is performing nude scenes, joking uInterview: ‘I’m Scandinavian, damn it! We love being naked.’
The Swedish heartthrob is no stranger to gay sex scenes either, having played several roles during his star turn on the vampire show True Blood.
One of the scenes was with straight actor Theo Alexander, whose anxiety Alexander had to help calm before filming the sequence.
‘He’s a straight guy too and he was nervous; “He had never kissed a boy before,” Alexander explained in an interview with PrideFont.
He told Theo: ‘Look at the scene. He’s this nemesis and he walks in and then he gets alluring and you think they’re going to make love and he gets into it and suddenly my character stabs him in the back and he explodes.’
He added: ‘In two minutes, look at this emotional roller coaster we’re taking the audience on. If we commit to this, it will be an amazing scene and we will be very happy with it forever. If we hold back, that’s when things get uncomfortable.
Alexander is straight and in a long-term relationship with Swedish actress Tuva Novotny, with whom he welcomed a baby in 2022.
The Swedish heartthrob is no stranger to gay sex scenes, having performed several scenes during his star turn on vampire show True Blood (pictured).
One of the scenes was with straight actor Theo Alexander, whose anxiety Alexander had to help calm before filming the sequence.
‘He’s a straight guy too and he was nervous; “He’s never kissed a guy before,” Alexander explained in an interview with PrideSource.
However, he commented that homosexuality “has always been the most natural thing for me because my uncle and godfather is a gay man and, therefore, when I was a child, it was as natural as being heterosexual.”
Alexander, whose father is Swedish movie star Stellan Skarsgard, recalled: “My aunt was showing up with her husband and my uncle was showing up with her husband.
“He was, by far, of my father’s four brothers, the most fashionable, the most modern and the coolest guy. So when he was a kid, he was the one I looked up to.
The Stockholm-born hunk noted: “I thought he was really bad**: fit, amazing and cool, and obviously not because he was gay.”
He recalled: “When I became a teenager and kids made fun of other teenagers who were gay, I never really understood that.”
He said: “It just baffled me because my idol, my godfather, was gay and he was the coolest guy I knew.” “I just couldn’t understand how that could be an insult.”
