Kevin Bacon revealed he was alleged to “begin making out” with Wild Issues costar Matt Dillon throughout their bathe scene within the 1998 movie.
Whereas discussing profession highlights on Esquire’s “For the Record” video sequence, the 66-year-old actor stated a “nice twist” between his character, police detective Ray Duquette, and Dillon’s, steerage counselor Sam Lombardo, was lower from the erotic thriller’s script.
Of their already steamy bathe scene — through which Sam walks into the toilet to bathe, solely to find a completely nude Ray is already in there — the scrapped twist was an intimate kiss between the 2 males.
“Within the authentic script, we begin making out,” Bacon recalled. “A part of what was loopy concerning the film was that there have been all these twists … you recognize, that was just like the hook of the film, so to me, [the kiss] was an awesome twist. That’s all. I used to be like, ‘That’d be an superior twist.’ ”
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“However I do not know. For some motive, it obtained lower. We didn’t shoot it. I do not assume we shot it. I feel it simply obtained lower,” the Footloose star stated about making Wild Issues, which additionally starred Neve Campbell and Denise Richards.
As an off-screen producer then requested Bacon to verify that he was “hooked up to” the kiss scene — an announcement they beforehand made earlier than the actor appeared again on the lower second — he stated in response, “Yeah, I positively was. Have a look at him — he is beautiful.”
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Bacon beforehand mentioned the axed scene 20 years in the past in a 2005 interview with Total Film magazine, revealing that “one other shock” was alleged to be Matt climbing into the bathe with him for the kiss.
“I believed it was nice as a result of the entire film is about secrets and techniques popping out, proper? As reveals go, that one was simply big,” Bacon advised the publication on the time. “Sadly, the financiers didn’t like the thought of males making out. They felt it went too far. They felt it wasn’t proper.”
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Wild Issues director John McNaughton additionally mentioned the could-have-been second with Entertainment Weekly in 2023, explaining, “They have been alleged to look one another up and down after which wham — go at it.”
Bacon stars in Prime Video sequence The Bondsman, which debuted April 3.
