{"id":2269856,"date":"2026-02-06T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2269856"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:59:07","slug":"how-pillion-secured-an-r-rating-in-the-u-s-for-a-bdsm-rom-com-less-penis-shaft-reduced-gagging-noises-and-de-glistened-semen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-pillion-secured-an-r-rating-in-the-u-s-for-a-bdsm-rom-com-less-penis-shaft-reduced-gagging-noises-and-de-glistened-semen\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018Pillion\u2019 Secured an R Rating in the U.S. for a Bdsm Rom-Com: Less Penis Shaft, Reduced Gagging Noises and De-Glistened Semen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Steven Spielberg<\/a> probably doesn\u2019t know this, but he served as an unlikely source of inspiration when it came to editing \u201cPillion<\/a>,\u201d the kinky and sexually graphic British sub-dom rom-com getting a limited release with A24 in the U.S. on Feb. 6 (before it expands wide on Feb. 20).<\/p>\n

Indeed, should the legendary filmmaker ever watch Harry Lighton<\/a>\u2019s acclaimed directorial debut \u2014 which recently landed three BAFTA nominations \u2014 he may notice how it adopts his ethos from \u201cJaws,\u201d where he was famously frugal about revealing the actual shark.<\/p>\n

That said, in the case of \u201cPillion\u201d the monster from the deep isn\u2019t a pneumatic Great White with notorious mechanical difficulties, but Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a>\u2019s impressively-sized prosthetic penis.<\/p>\n

In a pivotal early scene of the film, timid loner Colin (Harry Melling<\/a>) has his first sexual encounter with hunky biker Ray (Skarsg\u00e5rd) in a dark alleyway. But for the moment when Ray unzips…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Steven Spielberg probably doesn\u2019t know this, but he served as an unlikely source of inspiration when it came to editing \u201cPillion,\u201d the kinky and sexually graphic British sub-dom rom-com getting a limited release with A24 in the U.S. on Feb. 6 (before it expands wide on Feb. 20). Indeed, should the legendary filmmaker ever watch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2269857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":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-2269856","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\/2026\/02\/How-\u2018Pillion-Secured-an-R-Rating-in-the-US-for.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269856","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=2269856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269858,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269856\/revisions\/2269858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}