Today, Jake Shears is operating with Scissor Sisters world wide for the reunited band’s first dwell reveals in over 12 years, however he just lately needed to take care of a distinct piece of {hardware}: Alexander Skarsgård’s Prince Albert piercing.
That’s proper, for his official screen-acting debut, Shears will go head-to-“head” with a prominently pierced prosthetic in Pillion, the wild homosexual biker romance that made a splash at the Cannes Film Festival last month.
From first-time characteristic filmmaker Harry Lighton, Pillion is the surprisingly candy story of gruff biker Ray (Skarsgård) and his new submissive, Colin (Harry Melling, of the Harry Potter collection) as they work out some *ahem* kinks of their relationship.
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Shears performs Kevin, one such “kink”—one other of Ray’s subs who stirs up some jealousy in Colin, particularly after he takes on that Prince Albert (and extra) throughout an unforgettable scene on a picnic desk.
“I gotta say that prosthetic was actually lifelike,” he confesses to Deadline. “To me, in actual life, it felt very actual. Actually and figuratively… it was so lifelike that within the second, when it’s occurring and being filmed, it was form of surprising in a very wonderful means.”
It was all of the extra shocking as a result of the penile piercing wasn’t within the script—a minimum of Shears doesn’t keep in mind it that method—which means his on-screen response to it’s real and unrehearsed. Fortunately, he had loads of time to arrange for all the pieces else the function referred to as for.
Pillion‘s casting director reached out after seeing him play the Emcee in Cabaret on the Package Kat Membership on London’s West Finish and supplied the half. Although he initially fearful he bit off greater than he may chew, he felt extra assured after a dialog with director Harry Lighton and Skarsgård, who he already knew socially.
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From there, Shears threw himself into analysis, poring over The Leatherman’s Handbook and studying all the pieces he probably may concerning the “processes and formalities” of the dom/sub scene.
“You possibly can have three faculty programs on it,” he jokes with Deadline. “It was a bit overwhelming, however I really feel like I bought a significantly better image of what that scene is, that I didn’t know earlier than. And I’m fairly well-versed in f*ggotry [laughs] and a variety of various things within the queer world, however apart from a second once I was about 19 years previous, I hadn’t actually had any experiences on this world, so it was fascinating to find out about it and be with all the blokes.”
Now, should you’re aware of Shears’ work, you recognize he’s not precisely shy. With Scissor Sisters, he places himself on the market in entrance of crowds of hundreds evening after evening, and he totally dedicated to the demanding efficiency in Cabaret, giving audiences a muscular tackle the Emcee.
So, it wasn’t essentially the intimate scenes or revealing leather-based outfits that made him nervous for Pillion—it was extra concerning the strategy of filming and performing on display for the primary time.
“I didn’t really feel like—and this was my very own insecurities, and this isn’t concerning the intercourse within the film—however I simply didn’t really feel like I had the instruments for it,” he admits. “[But] I’ve all the time actually pushed myself to do issues which are new, that aren’t essentially one thing that’s snug for you, and by snug I simply imply, so far as your ability set.”
That was made all the simpler by the truth that he actually believed within the story Lighton wished to inform with Pillion, one that might deal with the sophisticated dynamics of intercourse, love, and leather-based tradition with “heat and humor.”
“Once I learn the script for the primary time, it actually made me smile, it made me unhappy. It’s heartbreaking,” Shears shares. “It’s bought all of those completely different emotions in it, and it simply was not what I anticipated. And once I learn the orgy scene within the script, I used to be similar to, ‘Oh my God.’”
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Shears is thrilled to listen to how well-received the movie was at Cannes, and now anxiously waits for the remainder of the world to see his daring display debut when A24 releases it in theaters (seemingly later this 12 months). He would possibly even be open to extra performing alternatives down the road, and hopes to “maintain constructing a toolkit for it.”
Within the meantime, Scissors Sisters will maintain clipping alongside, supporting Kesha on her large U.S. tour this summer time and acting at a large outside present with Pet Outlets Boys in England this August.
Let’s hope Shears packed his leatherware!
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