{"id":2049336,"date":"2025-09-25T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2049336"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:00:15","slug":"alexander-skarsgard-and-harry-melling-on-pillion-and-bringing-awkward-sex-back-to-movies-zurich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/alexander-skarsgard-and-harry-melling-on-pillion-and-bringing-awkward-sex-back-to-movies-zurich\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling on \u2018Pillion\u2019 and Bringing Awkward Sex Back to Movies: Zurich"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a> and Harry Melling<\/a> embrace the bizarre, erotic, and emotionally fraught in Pillion<\/a>, a film that\u2019s as much a tender romance as it is a kink-informed journey of self-discovery. Directed by Harry Lighton<\/a> in his feature debut, the movie features Melling as a nice suburban London boy who opens up, in more ways than one, when he begins a relationship with Skarsg\u00e5rd\u2019s leather-clad biker, becoming his submissive. (The film\u2019s title refers to the seat occupied by the passenger riding behind the driver on a motorcycle and, in the U.K., is also queer parlance for a bottom.)<\/p>\n

Pillion<\/a>, which premiered in Cannes\u2019 Un Certain Regard section and bows at the Zurich Film Festival on Sept. 29, leans hard into authenticity, embracing the awkward transitions of intimacy rather than sanitizing them. As The Hollywood Reporter\u2018s review notes, \u201cabuse, low-key cringe humor and unexpectedly sweet romance somehow co-exist…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd and Harry Melling embrace the bizarre, erotic, and emotionally fraught in Pillion, a film that\u2019s as much a tender romance as it is a kink-informed journey of self-discovery. Directed by Harry Lighton in his feature debut, the movie features Melling as a nice suburban London boy who opens up, in more ways than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2049337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2049336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alexander-Skarsgard-and-Harry-Melling-on-\u2018Pillion-and-Bringing-Awkward.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2049337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}