Alexander Skarsgård didn't just walk up the steps at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday evening. He stomped them, in Saint Laurent thigh-highs no less, for the premiere of The Phoenician Scheme, director Wes Anderson 's new film.

While much of the discussion around the Cannes film festival red carpet has been centered on celebrities and their entitlement to long trains and naked dresses, Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård bravely poses a different question: What if in 2005’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” Brad Pitt wore sky-high leather boots instead of Angelina Jolie?

The Northman actor has been all the chatter at the starry film fest this week, not only for his striking good looks and spicy acting in Pillion (which premiered in Cannes this Sunday), but for those kinky little boots he wore on the red carpet.