Alexander Skarsgrd's highly anticipated BDSM rom-com Pillion is receiving widespread critical acclaim after its festival circuit run. The movie, which features male nudity, orgies, and various depictions of kink, casts the actor as a charismatic biker who develops a dom/sub relationship with a quiet, mild-mannered man played by Harry Melling. In an interview with Variety published around the time of the film's premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Skarsgrd and director Harry Lighton revealed that there were a lot of sexually explicit moments in the original cut of the film that had to be removed."It was purely because I didnt want to push the audience into feeling they were being deliberately shocked by an image," Lighton told Variety. "So, for example, there was one close-up of a dick, a hard dick like down the barrel of the lens. And after watching the film on that fuck-off screen I thought, yeah, cutting it was probably the right decision!"Theres definitely a raunchier version of this movie. What youve seen is the family-friendly version. Theres also the Alexander Skarsgrd cut," Skarsgrd added. According to Variety, there is the possibility of more edits before it's released in the U.S. in February, with the director-writer Harry Lighton saying he had to "de-shine" some ejaculation, saying, "Apparently thats what pushes you over the edge!While the movie contains a lot of NSFW material, the team behind the movie maintains that the project is less about shock for shock's sake, but rather an endearing coming-of-age film about a young man learn about himself and this new world around him, which is what excited Melling about the character and the film."Whats so interesting about it, for me, was how it feels so relatable and familiar, but maybe dealing with a subculture that people arent so familiar with," the actor said. "It was how those two things interplay that I found so fascinating. You were taking romantic comedy tropes and subverting them.