The movie follows Colin, a timid man, who meets Ray, a confident biker gang leader, who leads him into a submissive relationship.

Actor Alexander Skarsgard says his new film Pillion is “not a conventional gay love story”.

The film, director Harry Lighton’s feature debut, stars Harry Melling as Colin, a timid suburban traffic warden, and Skarsgard as Ray, the enigmatic, Adonis-like leader of a gay motorcycle gang.

When the hyper-dominant Ray takes on the inexperienced Colin as his submissive, the unlikely duo enter a complex arrangement that pushes them both to test the boundaries of what may or may not be real love.

Skarsgard, 49, said he was drawn to the project because he saw it as an interesting challenge.

“When you first read it, Ray very much, from the very beginning, knows exact

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