Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Potter ’s Harry Melling to Star in Queer BDSM Biker Movie
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Anyone know J.K. Rowling’s stance on BDSM?
Harry Potter star Harry Melling, who played evil cousin Dudley Dursley in the films, will star in the new movie Pillion, alongside True Blood and Big Little Lies star Alexander Skarsgård, according to a report from Variety.
Melling will play Colin, a “wallflower,” while Skarsgård will play Ray, the leader of a motorbike club, who takes Colin on as a submissive partner. The official description in Variety continues: “Ray uproots Colin from his dreary suburban life, introducing him to a community of kinky, queer bikers and taking all sorts of virginities along the way.” OK, I’m listening. However, “as Colin steps deeper into Ray’s world of rules and mysteries, he begins to question whether the life of a 24/7 submissive is for him.”
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Pillion will be directed by Harry Lighton, an out queer director whose short film Wren Boys, about a gay marriage taking place in a men’s prison, was nominated for the BAFTA award for best British short film. The film is set to shoot this summer and launch at the Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the 2020 novel Box Hill by out gay writer Adam Mars-Jones.
“Harry is a filmmaker who is drawn to risk and fascinated by the potential to find surprising complexity in everyday life,” said Emma Norton of Element Pictures, the Irish studio set to produce the film. “We love this about him and believe that Pillion is the perfect expression of his talent, bravery and ambition.” Element has previously co-produced Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, Killing of a Sacred Deer, and his upcoming film Kinds of Kindness.
Since his time playing one of Harry Potter’s worst tormentors, Melling has built an extensive acting resume, with roles in the 2020 action hit The Old Guard, and the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit. Skarsgård has recently been seen in films such as The Northman and the Oscar-nominated Passing.
There’s no release date for the general public yet, but given the history of age gap discourse (the leads have a 12-year age gap) , queerbaiting discourse (neither lead is out as queer), and kink discourse online, the release date will most likely coincide with a great time to log off.
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