In light of last December’s Babygirl, we may be honing in on the era of the BDSM holiday film—though we’re not exactly complaining about it. This year’s leading kinky wintertime watch may well be Pillion, a gay biker drama starring Alexander Skarsgård opposite Harry Potter’s Harry Melling, that’s slated to premiere in Europe in late November. In homage to his portrayal of a leader of the Gay Bikers Motorcycle Club (in real life, the GBMC proclaims to be the largest queer biker club in all of Europe and the United Kingdom), Skarsgård and his stylist, Harry Lambert, have fully submitted to his character’s leather leanings during the film’s press tour.

On the red carpet at the Zurich Film Festival on Wednesday, the Scandinavian stud opted for a more casual execution relative to his spate of fetishwear fits at the Cannes Film Festival back in May. This time around, he wore shiny black penny loafers, striped trousers, and a silk collared shirt from the jaunty Italian label Magliano that featured an illustration of dildos, tinctures, a bong, and a shattered iPhone. (Per the brand’s website, other relevant offerings include a T-shirt printed with the phrase “I ♥ Gay Porn” and a vest depicting Pinocchio stuffing his fib-fueled nose through a gloryhole. On the vest’s other side? Jiminy Cricket.)

It was a subtler approach to the kinky method dressing than Skarsgård and Lambert deployed at Cannes, where the actor donned a slick, Bond-esque tuxedo jacket disrupted by Saint Laurent’s now-infamous thigh-high leather boots; a T-shirt depicting a mustached gentleman, mouth agape, ready to lap up the sidewalk-crusted sole of a squeaky biker boot; and a freaky prom-king tuxedo. But amidst all that kinkwear, perhaps the most paramount and uniquely Skarsgård accessory is his tweaking, ever-present movie-star smile, which seems to have the dual effect of gaslighting viewers while also piquing their interest in a dom-sub lifestyle.

​At this year’s Cannes festival, Pillion was recognized with a best screenplay award and the Palm Dog, a distinction given exclusively to canine actors. (The award went to Hippo, a long-haired dachshund, and not an actor engaging in pup play—though there seems to be plenty of that in the film as well.) In a recent interview with Variety, a reporter asked Skarsgård about his motivations for joining such a spank-tastic project, and he gave a cheeky, Patrick Bateman-esque response in return: “Money. Yeah! Capitalism, baby.”