Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård in PIllion

Alexander 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]........

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