Admittedly, the other reading of Skarsgård’s statement is that he’s saying it doesn’t matter if he’s been with men or women, rather than that he has been with men and women, but… sometimes in life you have to make a choice, and people are choosing to go with the interpretation that sparks joy.

“He had too much chemistry with literally everyone in True Blood for him to be straight,” wrote one X user.

“Yea he BEEN that James Dean/Richard Pryor type sexual,” said another. “A man who knows he’s that fine is fucking everyone.” And the discourse on X continued.

Adding fuel to the fire, at another point in the conversation, Skarsgård did admit that he has “a little bit of experience from that world” of leather gays and pushed back against the idea that it’s in anyway scary or dark. He also said that when he first read the script for Pillion, he was worried it would include some twist where his character secretly has a wife, and was thrilled to discover that wasn’t the case.

“We had a joint after party with a Nigerian film where homosexuality is illegal,” he added. “It was the first Nigerian film ever to play at Cannes Film Festival, so there were ambassadors and politicians from Nigeria – we had our kinky gay bikers in leather harnesses and Paul in his pup mask. It was pretty beautiful to watch.”