Kevin Bacon has remembered the time a dead body was discovered on the set of 1998’s Wild Things.
The 66-year-old Footloose star appeared in the erotic thriller alongside Denise Richards, Neve Campbell, and Matt Dillon. The movie — about a teen debutante (Richards), who, after failing to attract her guidance counselor (Dillon), accuses him of rape — was primarily filmed in Miami, Florida.
During a recent appearance on Variety’s YouTube collection, Know Your Strains, Bacon was requested to establish bits of dialogue from a few of his most notable initiatives, together with Wild Issues.
Although he was unable to acknowledge his character, Sgt. Ray Duquette’s quote — “Individuals aren’t at all times what they look like. Don’t neglect that” — he did recall the second a useless physique was discovered floating within the Everglades marsh they have been filming in.
“We have been out within the swamp one night time — loads of mosquitoes, wow — and we have been taking pictures some scene, I don’t keep in mind what it was, by type of a river,” Bacon defined. “That they had floated a raft on the market in order that they may put out a lightweight.
“Swiftly, I hear throughout the walkie-talkie: ‘Hey, uh, I feel I simply noticed a floater.’ And it was a physique that was floating by,” Bacon recounted. “It was type of indicative of the vibe of the film.”
The critically derided film, which has since change into a cult traditional, was directed by John McNaughton, who informed Entertainment Weekly in 2014 that manufacturing was briefly halted after the eery discovery.
“We known as the police, and so they really grabbed the physique and stored it from moving into our shot,” he mentioned.
Bacon at present leads Amazon Prime Video’s new action-horror collection, The Bondsman.
The eight-episode restricted collection, which is out now, follows Hub Halloran (Bacon), a murdered bounty hunter raised from the useless by the Satan with the only real intention of capturing escaped demons and returning them to Hell.
Forward of the present’s April 3 premiere, Bacon sat down at SXSW movie pageant for a profession retrospective, the place he mentioned his breakthrough function in 1984’s dance musical Footloose.
Of the celebrity that his function as Ren, a dance-loving teenager, catapulted him to, Bacon mentioned: “It’s what I needed; I’ve nobody guilty however myself. It was positively my dream to have all these issues. However till you actually have that, you don’t actually notice there’s one thing type of unusual about it.”
