Pillion Director Explains Decision To Cut This X-Rated Scene From BDSM Biker Romance Movie

Posted on 21/11/2025 by Boris Clair

The director of the much-hyped romance Pillion has shed some light on why one particularly X-rated scene was cut from the new movie.

Earlier this year, the BDSM-themed biker movie was a stand-out when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and quickly became one of the most talked-about films of the year, which its leading man Alexander Skarsgård has capitalised on with some excellent red carpet looks channeling his character Ray.

Pillion also stars Harry Melling – best known for playing Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter movies – who plays introverted Colin, a “wallflower” who quickly gets swept up in Ray’s exciting and mysterious world when he becomes his sub.

Audiences gave the film an eight-minute standing ovation when it premiered, with critics honing in on its balance of humour, emotional vulnerability and bold sexual scenes.

Its director, Harry Lighton, previously spoke about one such sex scene that didn’t make the final cut, explaining that he axed it so the audience didn’t end up “feeling they were being deliberately shocked by an image”.

The image in question was “one close up of a dick, a hard dick … like down the barrel of the lens” which he considered a bit much when he saw it on the giant cinematic screen.

Now, the filmmaker has added more context to the cut scene in a new interview with the Guardian, getting straight to the point.

“Originally, there was a closeup of Ray’s bell-end,” he said. “But it would have punctured the tension and raised a laugh.”

Despite the raunchy content, Alexander has previously insisted his dad – award-winning Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård – gave Pillion his stamp of approval after they sat down together to watch the film.

He also thinks his mum will be a fan, insisting in the new interview: “We never wanted to pander to straight audiences but I also think my mum’s gonna like the film. We didn’t make it for her but she can enjoy it.”

Not quite Downton with a cup of tea and a digestive, but we respect it…

Pillion is due to hit UK cinemas on Friday 28 November.

Adele To Make Her Acting Debut In New Star-Studded Movie

Posted on 12/11/2025 by Boris Clair

Adele is set to join the star-studded cast of Tom Ford’s new film in what will mark her acting debut.

The chart-topping star has long expressed her interest in pursuing an acting career, and teased last year that she would be taking a step back from the music scene after completing her string of live shows in support of her album 30.

On Wednesday, Deadline reported that Adele would be appearing in the cast of Tom Ford’s next film, which would be an adaptation of Anne Rice’s 1982 novel Cry To Heaven.

But the Someone Like You singer is far from the only famous face linked with the movie.

Deadline’s article named Adele’s co-stars in the projects as Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Paul Bettany, Daryl McCormack and Colin Firth, who previously appeared in Tom Ford’s adaptation of A Single Man.

Also linked with the project are Ciarán Hinds, George MacKay, Thandiwe Newton, Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer and Owen Cooper, the British teen actor who recently won an Emmy for his stand-out performance in Netflix’s Adolescence.

Owen has since appeared in the BBC comedy Film Club, and will next make his big-screen debut in Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights in early 2026.

Tom Ford’s team has since confirmed to HuffPost UK that Deadline’s story is accurate.

Adele said a decade ago that she’d be interested in trying out acting after her performance in her Hello music video, directed by filmmaker Xavier Dolan, and was previously linked with a role in a potential remake of the musical Oliver.

When The Hollywood Reporter asked in 2023 if she’d “ever considered acting”, she responded: “No. There is one movie I want to do, but the guy whose movie it would be, he’s not mentally ready to write the script for it.”

“I’m not giving you no clues, though,” she insisted. “But I bug him every now and then about it, but he’s just not there yet. But that’s the only role I ever want. Because I think I’d nail it. I think I’d do really, really, really good at it.”

Last year, the Daily Mail also quoted a “source” who claimed that Adele had been taking acting lessons with the hopes of taking her career in a different direction.

Oscar Isaac Has Some Strong Words For Disney As He Rules Out Star Wars Return For Now

Posted on 11/11/2025 by Boris Clair

Oscar Isaac has said that he’d want to see some changes behind the scenes at Disney before he agreed to appear in another Star Wars movie.

The Frankenstein star played the Resistance pilot Poe Dameron in the rebooted Star Wars trilogy between 2015 and 2019, and in the six years since, has repeatedly been grilled about whether he’d ever be keen to return to that galaxy far, far away.

During a recent interview with GQ, it was mentioned that he’d once said he’d only return to the sci-fi saga if he needed “another house or something”, commenting: “Yeah. That was a real likeable quote. Jesus Christ.

“Y’know, people ask you things, you say stuff, you don’t really think about it that much. I said a slightly dickish thing.”

The magazine’s reporter then pointed out that Oscar had seemingly softened on the idea in more recent years, to which he admitted that he is “open to” a new Star Wars movie – albeit not at this exact moment in history.

“Right now I’m not so open to working with Disney,” he admitted. “But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great.”

GQ pointed out that their interview took place during Jimmy Kimmel’s brief suspension from his US talk show, which led to a widespread boycott of the Walt Disney Company, the parent company of his employer, ABC.

Back in September, ABC announced that Jimmy was being taken off the air “indefinitely” as the result of remarks he had made days earlier about the fall-out from the killing of far-right political commentator Charlie Kirk.

The incident stemmed from a comedy monologue, during which the comedian observed: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

After the news broke that Jimmy was being suspended because of this comment, many called for a boycott of the streaming services Disney+ and Hulu (both of which are owned and operated by Disney), with the company reported to have taken a hit of around $3 billion overnight.

Jimmy made light of this when he eventually returned to ABC days later.

Oscar isn’t the only member of the Star Wars reboot’s cast to have some choice words for Disney, though, after John Boyega claimed the studio failed to flesh out the characters played in the series by actors of colour compared to those portrayed by their white counterparts.

Jennifer Lawrence Teases More Of Her New Miss Piggy Movie

Posted on 06/11/2025 by Boris Clair

Jennifer Lawrence is opening up more about the new film she’s producing based on screen icon, Miss Piggy.

Earlier this week, the Die, My Love star teased during an interview on the podcast Las Culturistas that she and fellow Oscar winner Emma Stone were co-producing a new film centred around the legendary Muppets character, which Tony recipient Cole Escola would write.

Naturally, this news was met with a lot of buzz, with Jimmy Fallon grilling her about it further when she stopped by The Tonight Show on Wednesday.

During the interview, Jen hailed Piggy as a “feminist icon”, and explained that the germ of the idea for the new movie came during lockdown, at a time when so-called “cancel culture” was being debated extensively, and a friend suggested: “It would be so funny if Miss Piggy got cancelled.”

“Now, that is not the plot [of the film], necessarily,” the former Hunger Games actor was quick to clarify. “But it got the wheels turning. [We realised], ’wait, there hasn’t actually been, like, a feminist Miss Piggy starring [role]. So I started producing it.”

She revealed she then turned to Emma Stone for help with co-producing as she considers herself more of an “ideas guy”, while the Poor Things star is both a “Muppets-head” and a “shark”.

“I went to her to be like, ‘what do we do?’,” Jennifer added. “So now, Cole is writing it, and they are perfect. And yeah!”

Asked if she’ll also star in the project, she replied: “I think so. I mean, I have to be. I mean, I want to be.”

Miss Piggy first shot to fame in the 1970s, when she was introduced as the resident diva on The Muppet Show.

In the decades since, she’s become one of the franchise’s most cherished stand-out characters, most recently appearing in 2021’s Muppets Haunted Mansion.

Next year, she’s set to share the screen with Sabrina Carpenter in a one-off special revival of The Muppet Show, commemorating 50 years since the first episode aired, which will be written by Emmy winner Seth Rogen.

John Bishop Reveals How He Really Feels About Bradley Cooper’s New Film Inspired By His Life

Posted on 23/10/2025 by Boris Clair

John Bishop has admitted he’s finding it both “brilliant” and “bizarre” that Bradley Cooper has turned his life story into one of the year’s most-hyped films.

Earlier this year, it was announced that John’s story was being adapted into the comedy Is This Thing On?, helmed by the A Star Is Born and Maestro director with Arrested Development star Will Arnett in the lead role.

The film centres around a man who turns to stand-up comedy when his marriage starts falling apart.

While the movie’s characters are fictional (Will plays aspiring comic Alex Novak while Oscar winner Laura Dern plays his wife, Tess), the story is based on events from John’s own life.

He told BBC Merseyside he found it “so weird” that “this is happening, but so brilliant at the same time”.

Will Arnett and John Bishop at the premiere of their film Is This Thing On?

Recalling the first time he introduced his wife to the Oscar nominee, John said: “[Bradley Cooper] gave Melanie a hug and then Melanie had a minute with him, talking to him, but she was whispering in his ear.

“We come back to the hotel and I was saying ‘This has been a mad few days’. I said: ‘What are you going to remember most about it?’ She said: ‘Whispering in Bradley Cooper’s ear’. That kind of doesn’t make me feel great…”

During an appearance on the podcast RHLSTP earlier this year, comedian Chloe Radcliffe (who plays a supporting role in Is This Thing On), explained: “I think Will and John sat next to each other at a dinner 10 years ago, and Will heard his story, and was like, ‘That rules, I want to do that someday’.”

John first pursued a career in 2000, following a brief break in his marriage to his wife Melanie (the pair eventually reunited and share three sons, Joe, Luke and Daniel).

He opened up about his first time performing during Graham Norton’s 2024 New Year’s Eve special, claiming he put his name down to appear at an open night mic on a whim.

“It was four pounds. I was going through a divorce. I thought, ‘Well, that’s four pounds she’s not getting’,” he quipped.

John added: “I was meant to do seven minutes but because there was no one there, they let me carry on, and I did about 25 minutes. When I walked off I remember Mick, the compere, and the fella who ran the place, Dave Perkin, coming up to me and saying, ‘Where have you been doing your stand-up?’. I said ‘I’ve never done it in my life’. And he said, ’Well some of that was really good, some of that was fun. The bit where you started talking about getting divorced and started crying… don’t do that again. But come back’.”

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Elsewhere in his BBC Merseyside interview, John revealed that he was able to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his first stand-up performance at the same venue on his latest tour.

The next night, he attended the London Film Festival for a premiere screening of Is This Thing On?.

You couldn’t write it,” he enthused. “You couldn’t line things up like that as perfectly [as they have]. It’s been odd trying to get my head around it.”

Is This Thong On? hits US cinemas in December, with a UK release date yet to be confirmed.

Josh O’Connor Gets Candid About His ‘Awful’ Les Misérables Audition Blunder

Posted on 14/10/2025 by Boris Clair

We now know him best for his work in hit shows and films like The Crown, Challengers and the upcoming Knives Out movie Wake Up Dead Man, but Josh O’Connor has revealed that long before he was an international name, there was one major role he missed out on.

During a new interview with Radio Times, Josh revealed that his first ever audition was for the role of Marius in the film adaptation of the musical Les Misérables, which arrived in cinemas in 2012.

“They were auditioning everyone! But I didn’t know that,” the Emmy winner recalled. “I don’t have any actors in my family, so everything was new to me.”

Having never seen Les Mis on stage at the time, Josh swotted up on Marius’ song Empty Chairs At Empty Tables, and was told afterwards: “Josh, we would love you to come back”.

He continued: “I got a recall, which was good, but I’m very dyslexic, so I didn’t read the full email. I just read, ‘We want you to come back!’.

“A week later, I’m on my way, walking through central London to go to my recall and I bump into a friend of mine who was doing the play Richard II with Eddie Redmayne. He’s like, ‘Where are you going?’. And I was like, ‘I’m really nervous. I have a recall to be in the movie of Les Misérables’. And he said, ‘My friend Eddie is playing Marius!’.

“I then realised my recall was for a very minor role, but I hadn’t learned the song … I didn’t even know the song. And it was awful. I didn’t get that part.”

Eddie Redmayne as Marius in 2012's Les Misérables — Eddie Redmayne as Marius in 2012’s Les Misérables

Eddie Redmayne did, indeed, get to play Marius in the Les Mis film, which wound up being a breakthrough moment for the British actor, who won his first Oscar just a few years later.

It wasn’t all bad news for Josh, though.

He, in fact, did end up playing Marius himself, albeit in a BBC drama based on Victor Hugo’s book Les Misérables, which also featured the likes of future Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn and his on-screen mum Olivia Colman, as well as David Oyelowo, Adeel Akhtar and Dominic West, who would take on the role of Prince Charles in The Crown when Josh stepped down at the end of season four.

Read Josh O’Connor’s interview in full in the new issue of Radio Times.

Tron: Ares Has Critics Pulling No Punches In Their Scathing Reviews

Posted on 08/10/2025 by Boris Clair

The original Tron, released in 1982, has gone on to become a veritable cult classic of the sci-fi genre.

Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for its most recent iteration, Tron: Ares, if critics’ reviews are anything to go by.

Starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters and Gillian Anderson, the new sequel has been heavily panned in early reviews, with some going as far as describing it as one of 2025’s worst big-screen offerings.

Here’s a selection of what the critics have had to say about Tron: Ares…

“The worst film of the year and a new low for Disney. The music’s great, but this Jared Leto vehicle is otherwise an ethically dubious, horribly written nadir in franchise slop.”

“The matrix of pointlessness is reloaded in this mind-bendingly dull sci-fi, more a screensaver than an actual film […] Tron: Ares (almost) comes to life just once – when Evan Peters gets a smack in the face from Gillian Anderson playing his mum, in an old-fashioned bit of analogue reality. That’s a bit of firm parenting you might feel like handing out to every producer involved in this film, and it’s sad to see the estimable Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith being made to look so lifeless.”

“So bad it makes you wish AI would hurry up and destroy Hollywood. [Tron: Ares is] a shambolic film populated by some of the most aggressively charmless characters ever seen in a blockbuster.”

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“Tron: Ares will make you want to log off. Gillian Anderson should have known better than to appear in this uninspired sequel. [The film’s title character, Ares is] a dead-eyed digital super-soldier played by the bearded charisma vacuum and scene-wrecking super-plank Jared Leto (and you thought he was bad in Morbius).”

“Tron: Ares is not a film. It’s an absolutely brilliant soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails with some visual elements getting in the way. The music is loud, aggressive, adventurous, soaring, gritty and emotive, everything the actual movie is not.”

“Like lead actor Jared Leto’s high-def cheekbones, it looks great, but the movie is saddled with callbacks to the earlier film (and the 1980s at large) that suggest it’s aimed more at Gen X than the Alpha kids who could launch the property into the future.”

Not all of the reviews for Tron: Ares have been negative – but the more forgiving ones are few and far between

“Without giving too much away, there is room for a Jeff Bridges appearance, and also a nostalgia-driven sequence that fans of the original Tron will love. What a pity the script itself flounders, hampered by the fact Hollywood has churned out numerous AI stories of late. Certainly, this lacks the cheekiness of, say, M3GAN. With the exception of an amusing riff about Depeche Mode (better than Mozart, according to Ares), it requires a much-needed humour injection.”

“Tron: Ares [is] a franchise entry that honours its roots while taking significant steps forward. It’s no sci-fi insta-classic, but there are worse things to be than a surprisingly entertaining post-summer popcorn bucket.

Tron: Ares arrives in UK cinemas on Friday 10 October.

Alexander Skarsgård Opens Up About What Makes The Sex Scenes In His New BDSM Biker Romance So Unique

Posted on 02/10/2025 by Boris Clair

Alexander Skarsgård has opened up about his new film Pillion, and how the movie’s much-hyped sex scenes differ from other projects he’s appeared in over the years.

The Emmy winner’s latest film features Harry Potter actor Harry Melling as Colin, a young man who embarks on a BDSM relationship with a biker gang leader, Ray, played by Alexander. Pillion became one of the Cannes Film Festival’s most talked-about films when it premiered earlier this year, not least because of its unique premise and graphic sexual content.

Speaking to Variety about making the film in an interview published earlier this week, Alexander reflected on how he and Harry worked with intimacy coordinator Robbie Taylor Hunt to ensure that these sex scenes felt real in their awkwardness.

“We wanted it to be clumsy and weird,” he explained. “On screen, [sex] often looks like a ballet, but [it] can be awkward and funny.”

“I often find sex on screen quite boring,” he continued. “Usually, all the tension is leading up to that moment, and then once people are in the sack…”

Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling at a photo-call for their film Pillion at this year's Cannes Film Festival — Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling at a photo-call for their film Pillion at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

Alexander went on to praise director Harry Lighton, who he said “didn’t put on silk gloves to tell this story” and instead “embraced the awkwardness” of the sex sequences between the two central characters.

Critics have already been full of praise for the sex scenes in Pillion, with Vanity Fair hailing the film as “frank, kinky [and] utterly idiosyncratic” and The Daily Beast describing it as “quite possibly the sexiest movie at Cannes this year, that’s also delightfully tender”.

And while Pillion certainly doesn’t shy away from sex, orgies or scenes of BDSM, Alexander also thinks the director approached these themes in a “beautiful” way rather than leaning into shock value.

“I think my mum will like this movie,” the True Blood star insisted. “[Even though] it’s about kinky gay bikers and a D/s relationship, [it’s] portrayed with the perfect amount of respect, but not too much respect.”

And as much as Pillion’s sex scenes have so far dominated conversation around the film, it turns out the movie is not nearly as graphic as it could have been.

The Big Little Lies star noted: “The sex scenes weren’t graphic for the sake of being graphic. We shot way more graphic stuff than you’ve seen just now.”

Earlier this year, director Harry Lighton told Variety during another interview that more daring sex scenes in Pillion had been cut so the audience didn’t end up “feeling they were being deliberately shocked by an image”.

“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!” he quipped.

Emerald Fennell Explains Why She Cast Jacob Elordi And Margot Robbie In Wuthering Heights Amid Backlash

Posted on 29/09/2025 by Boris Clair

Emerald Fennell has explained how she came to cast Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as the leads in her new Wuthering Heights movie.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker has faced some criticism in the last year over the actors she chose to portray Catherine and Heathcliff in her much-hyped film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic gothic novel.

Many have questioned whether Margot, who turned 35 earlier this year, was the right choice for Catherine, given the character is in her late teens for much of the main story, while others have accused the film of “whitewashing” the character of Heathcliff, who is described in the book as being “dark-skinned”.

While his ethnicity is never specified in the source material, it’s been pointed out by fans that Heathcliff is subjected to racism by other characters in the book, particularly as a younger man, so the Euphoria actor’s casting in the role has been a controversial one.

Per BBC News, Emerald opened up about her reasons for casting Margot and Jacob while speaking at the Brontë family home over the weekend.

Emerald explained that the idea for Jacob to play Heathcliff occurred to her when they were working together on her most recent film, Saltburn.

“He looked exactly like the illustration of Heathcliff on the first book that I read,” Emerald recalled. “And it was so awful because I so wanted to scream. Not the professional thing to do, obviously.

“I had been thinking about making [a film version of Wuthering Heights], and it seemed to me he had the thing… he’s a very surprising actor.”

As for Margot, Emerald noted that she’s “not like anyone I’ve ever met – ever”, which is the same way she felt about the character when she first read Wuthering Heights.

“[Margot is] so beautiful and interesting and surprising, and she is the type of person who, like Cathy, could get away with anything,” the Promising Young Woman director said. “I think honestly she could commit a killing spree and nobody would mind. And that is who Cathy is to me. Cathy is somebody who just pushes to see how far she can go.

“So it needed somebody like Margot, who’s a star, not just an incredible actress – which she is – but somebody who has a power, an otherworldly power, a Godlike power, that means people lose their minds.”

While Emerald and Jacob first worked together on Saltburn, she and Margot have also collaborated numerous times.

Margot was an executive producer on both Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, while Emerald made a brief appearance in the 2023 movie Barbie as Midge, a friend of Margot’s doll character.

Preview screenings of Wuthering Heights were reported to have first taken place earlier this year – with audiences having a big reaction to some of the artistic choices Emerald has made with her latest film.