The first trailer has dropped for a highly rated BDSM film, which many fans are taking notice of due to a starring role for a Harry Potter legend.
It has been an eventful week for ex-Harry Potter stars, with Emma Watson the latest of the core actors that JK Rowling has taken shots at on social media.
This came after Watson offered an olive branch to the author in a recent interview, when asked about the ongoing feud between them, which the author has now seemingly addressed.
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Meanwhile, though Harry Melling, who played Dudley Dursley, has arguably had the most successful acting career of all the stars of Harry Potter, and he is now starring in Pillion.
The first trailer is below and features several sneakily hidden NSFW sexual references in it:
Pillion, which sees Melling star alongside Infinity Pool's Alexander Skarsgård, is a gay BDSM romance in which a timid man meets a confident biker before the pair engage in a very kinky relationship.
The film received an eight-minute standing ovation at Cannes that came alongside a 100 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Directed by Harry Lighton, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film a four star review, calling it ‘sweet and extremely revealing’ and saying that this was what Fifty Shades of Grey ‘should have been’.
Pillion supposedly has multiple orgy scenes, with Skarsgård speaking to Deadline at Cannes about how the movie’s intimacy co-ordinator Robbie Taylor Hunt was essential.
He said: “He was terrific in just orchestrating, choreographing it and also knowing when to step back and let us go with it and when to kind of step in.
“Those were exciting days, absolutely.”
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While the film is said to be quite graphic in its sexual content, the trailer would seemingly be fairly tame outside of one scene in which Skarsgård’s character matter-of-factly tells Melling’s to buy a buttplug.
Whilst some may wonder where the graphic sexual details that those who reviewed the film referenced were in the trailer, one very obvious one is hidden in plain sight.
At one point in the trailer, Melling’s character, Colin, is shown staring at Skarsgård’s Ray, with his eyes catching on a key on a chain around his neck.
This can be a fairly graphic BDSM reference, with keys worn around necks often a sign that they are someone’s dominant.
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The key is often therefore used to unlock either chastity devices or lockable collars, with the keys worn around their necks as reminders of control and power.
In addition to this, the trailer shows several more explicit BDSM kinks in action in a less sexual way, such as Ray tapping alongside him for Colin to join, only for his dog to take his place instead, implying they have comparable relationships to Skarsgård's character.
Add to that the pair shown wrestling with a hole in the buttcheeks of Colin’s trunks (we won’t be explaining this one, use your imagination), and the 99-second trailer is jam-packed with hidden sexual references.
The move to keep their cards close to their chest is clever marketing from a film that, according to reviews from Cannes, is sex-filled but surprisingly tender.
Pillion releases in cinemas on November 28.
Topics: Harry Potter, TV and Film, Film, LGBTQ, Sex and Relationships
Michael Slavin