Interview With "Pillion" Star Harry Melling

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

"Pillion" is a romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Harry Lighton, based on the 2020 novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. The film stars Harry Melling as a timid gay man and Alexander Skarsgård as an enigmatic biker who starts a BDSM relationship. The film had its premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the section's Best Screenplay prize and the Palm Dog for Mutt Moment, alongside nominations for the Caméra d'Or and the Queer Palm. The film received further critical acclaim after screening at the Telluride and New York Film Festivals, receiving several nominations and awards, including two British Independent Film Award wins for Best British Independent Film and Best Debut Screenwriter, and a Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Melling was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about his work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is playing in the UK from Picturehouse and Warner Bros. Pictures UK and will be released in the US by A24 on February 6th, 2026. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.3	Hi.
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1:03.0	We are talking with Harry Melling, the star of Pillion.
1:07.8	Harry, thank you so much for joining us today.
1:10.8	Thank you for having me. It's a thrill. So yeah, thank you.
1:13.3	It is as much of a thrill for me to be talking to you about this film, which I was lucky enough
1:19.6	to see at the world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, and just it did something to me.
1:26.9	And I think to everyone else in that audience, it was such an unexpected film, and your performance and Alex's performance are both wonderful.
1:36.3	I wanted to ask you, you know, you've had such an extremely interesting, varied career, more than a lot of other actors of your generation and
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