It’s not every day you see a biker gang BDSM comedy-drama on the big screen. But Pillion , the feature debut of writer-director Harry Lighton, is exactly that – depicting the unfolding sub-dom relationship between Harry Melling’s introverted Colin, and Alexander Skarsgård’s biker Ray. As they navigate the tenets of their relationship, Colin comes to better understand exactly what he does and doesn’t want.

It was this uniqueness that drew Skarsgård to the project. “A lot of scripts that are even pretty good, they feel like a version of a film you’ve seen before,” he tells Empire . Not so much with Pillion . “It was such a funny and touching and weird love story, in this subculture that we don’t often see on screen.” Those tonal shifts also hooked in Melling, who first hit screens as

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