Kinky Sex, BDSM Alexander Skarsgard and Gimp Masks: ‘Pillion’ Seduces Cannes With 7-Minute Standing Ovation

Alexander Skarsgard Kisses Pedro Pascal’s Cheek During Standing Ovation for Queer BDSM-Themed ‘Pillion’ at Cannes 2025 Premiere | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Alexander Skarsgard is overcome with emotion! The 48-year-old actor gave Pedro Pascal a hug and kiss on the cheek during what was described by THR as an “electric seven-minute standing ovation” for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival premiere of his movie, Pillion, on Sunday (May 18). The BSDM-themed queer film marks the directorial debut of Harry Lighton. The movie centers around Colin, a shy London lad (Harry Melling), who encounters the smoldering …

Kinky Sex, BDSM Alexander Skarsgard and Gimp Masks: ‘Pillion’ Seduces Cannes With 7-Minute Standing Ovation

Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling brought BDSM to Cannes with the premiere of Harry Lighton's "Pillion" in the Un Certain Regard section.

‘Pillion’ Review: Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling Are Magnificent in a Wildly Explicit and Strangely Sweet BDSM Romance

Dick-sucking, boot-licking, and ball-gagging are de rigueur for a movie like writer/director Harry Lighton’s wildly graphic and strangely moving BDSM romance, “Pillion.” But for a British queer film that puts the particulars of a gay dominant-submissive affair (or arrangement, better yet) up front and up close, actors Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling find the sweet center of a story marked by clamps, cages, and assless unitards. No doubt co…

Alexander Skarsgård Is the Dom of One Sub’s Dreams in the Affecting Drama Pillion

Let’s just get the inevitable out of the way. The new film Pillion, which premiered here at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18, is in some ways similar to last year’s Babygirl, a comedy-drama-romance about a dom-sub relationship. Pillion, from first-time feature director Harry Lighton, examines the same sort of coupling, from timid beginning to full-body commitment. But in comportment, tone, and intention, Pillion is otherwise wholly different f…

Alexander Skarsgård Is the Dom of One Sub’s Dreams in the Affecting Drama ‘Pillion’

A daring, honest first feature from the United Kingdom is an early Cannes highlight.

‘Pillion’ Review: Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling Are Fearless in Graphic but Surprisingly Tender Study of a Sub/Dom Queer Romance

A nice suburban London boy gets his kink on and likes it in writer-director Harry Lighton’s provocative debut, premiering in Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar.