Harry Melling has discussed some of his prep work for Pillion, including one very particular thing he learned from real-life gay bikers.

Melling stars as Colin, who enters into a dom/sub relationship with gay biker Ray, played by Alexander Skarsgård. The film came out in the UK last year but is due out in the US on 6 February.

Ahead of the US release, Melling, Skarsgård, and the director, Harry Lighton, spoke to Out about the film.

During the conversation Melling touched on his time with the real-life Gay Bikers Motorcycle Club. He enjoyed his first pillion trip with one member, Paul Tallis, who plays one of the pups seen in Pillion.

Describing one trip to Cambridge Pride on the back of a bike as “absolutely f****** terrifying” the Harry Potter star shared that he wore a leash and collar and was guided around the event by Tallis. Melling also met other members of the group.

Melling even learned how to lick a boot, a task Colin faces early in the film. “There’s a specific way to do it,” the actor told Out. “There are lots of little things to sort of bear in mind when on all fours trying to lick the boot.”

Skarsgård also touched on how his own research as well as Melling and Lighton’s informed the film and how the biker group and the dom/sub elements were portrayed.

“They were obviously instrumental in shaping the world as we were shooting, and I also thought it was interesting and important [to show] the diversity within the community,” the Succession star said. “[These couples are] not all the same,” Skarsgård added.

In a separate interview, the True Blood star clarified comments that led many to believe he’d come out as bisexual.

“It was definitely not an intended statement. I don’t know what I was talking about,” Skarsgård has told Variety. He then said: “Maybe it was trying to shift the focus more to the story and these characters. And the importance of telling the story like this.”

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RuPaul’s Drag Race‘s Carmen Carrera has teased that she could be set to make history with the next season of The Real Housewives of Miami.

Carrera, who first appeared on season three of Drag Race, featured briefly on RHOM‘s seventh season. She was listed as a friend of Kiki Barth when the cast went to the 2024 National LGBTQ+ Task Force Gala in an episode shown last year.

She has since been heavily rumoured to be a more permanent member of the cast, or at least one of the “Friends Of” cast members.

The model spoke to Pride at the annual Out100 celebration in December where she was asked about returning for RHOM‘s upcoming season.

“We’re getting ready to film soon,” Carrera said. “So, you might see some more of me out there! It’s all happening. I don’t want to say too much, but we’ll see what happens. It would be nice,” she added.

If Carrera was added to the RHOM cast, it would make her the first trans woman to become a full-time Real Housewives cast member.

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The Drag Race legend and model was rumoured to have been involved with RHOM when it was rebooted in 2021, having been seen at multiple cast events. But she explained to Pride her schedule had kept her from appearing as much as she could have.

“My schedule was so busy while they were filming. I was supposed to be there for the very first episode, but I had other things to do,” she said. Continuing, she shared: “By the time I actually filmed with the ladies, there was so much drama going on, so I was out of loop, but I was just happy to be there.”

Carrera also spoke to the current political and social climate around the trans community. Sharing an uplifting message for trans people she said: “Honestly, the trans experience is so unique. I’m owning my truth and not caring what anyone else thinks.

“I’m in my 40s now and it’s all about being fabulous! You know who you are. It’s just about feeling empowered. We’ve always been here. We’re always going to be here.”

Carrera was one of the first trans contestants to appear on Drag Race, coming out after season three in 2011. She later criticised the reality series for its uses of transphobic slurs which were removed from future seasons.

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The launch of the final season of Queer Eye has been overshadowed by more drama from the cast with Karamo Brown having unfollowed everyone. That is, almost everyone.

The tenth and final season of the hit Netflix show debuted on the streaming service on Wednesday (21 January). It sees Brown, along with Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness, and Jeremiah Brent take to Washington, DC to makeover a new crop of ‘heroes’ and bring their warmth and positivity to the US capital.

However, things seem chilly off screen. In addition to skipping interviews with the rest of the cast on Tuesday (20 January) Brown, Queer Eye‘s culture expert, has now unfollowed most of his cast mates on Instagram.

At the time of writing, Brown has unfollowed Porowski, the food and drink expert, France, the style expert, and Jonathan Van Ness, the hair and grooming expert. However, he’s still following Brent, the interior design expert, as well as Bobby Berk, Brent’s predecessor.

Van Ness, Porowski, and France are all still following everyone except Brown and Berk. Meanwhile, Brent is following everyone except Berk.

Having commented on Brown’s absence while appearing on CBS Mornings on Tuesday no one, with the exception of Porowski, in the cast has addressed things further.

On Wednesday, Porowski alluded to the drama by posting an image to his Instagram stories of the Fab Five (not including Berk) with the caption: “when life hands u lemons, u make some thyme and rosemary infused lemonade.”

On Tuesday, Brown cited being “mentally and emotionally abused for years” as a reason for missing interviews. CBS Mornings host Gayle King reported her team had been informed “less than an hour” before the interview commenced that Brown would not be taking part.

A statement from Brown read: “I hope everyone remembers the main theme I have tried to teach them over the past decade, which is to focus on and to protect their mental health/peace from people or a world who seek to destroy it, which is why I can’t be there today.”

Separately on Today host Sheinelle Jones read aloud comments from Brown’s assistant’s that said: “Karamo has felt mentally and emotionally abused for years and he has been advised by his therapist to protect himself and his peace by not attending.”

Porowski described Brown’s absence on Tuesday as a surprise, adding: “Families are complicated and we’re definitely not excluded from that.” And Van Ness praised Brown for his work on the show and said: “We do need to centre what’s best for us sometimes. My hat off to him for doing that today.”

The drama follows that caused by the departure of Berk in 2023 after the show’s eighth season which drew attention to cracks in the original Fab Five roster.

A 2024 Rolling Stone investigation highlighted further issues based on multiple reports from people involved with the show’s production.

Queer Eye is streaming on Netflix.

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