Of course, we did have crew members we'd never seen before suddenly having a reason to try and be on set that day! But we'd boot them off to be fair to the actors." No one could make women look more beautiful than him. And our director of photography, Jeffrey Kimball, knew how to make them look fabulous. "What's so often the case is that everyone is nervous going into scenes like that, but once they get there, the clothes start flying off," he says, adding that both actresses were entirely comfortable and professional throughout the filming of the pool scene. In her 2017 memoir, Richards remembers that she and the Party of Five star downed a bottle of tequila before shooting the pool scene and McNaughton confirms that account. Campbell had a "no-nudity" clause in her contract and Richards's representatives were intimately involved in deciding how much of their client's body would be shown onscreen in both that sequence as well as the famous threesome that added Dillon into the mix. The same-sex sex scene that did make it into the final cut is the aquatic makeout session with Campbell and Richards - although that sequence was initially no less fraught behind the scenes. I always called it 'acting twice' with the cast, because what their characters were saying was never really what they were doing." "Neve preps him, and then Matt goes inside and sits next to Kevin and says, 'Hey could I buy you a drink?' The next time you watch that scene, watch it closely, because is there. McNaughton directs viewers to a flashback scene that appears during the closing credits where Dillon encounters Bacon's cop in a dive bar. Not for nothing, but a hint of the actual nature of Bacon and Dillon's relationship does survive in the final cut of Wild Things. (Photo: Columbia/Courtesy Everett Collection) Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon were revealed to be gay lovers in the original screenplay for Wild Things. "Kevin seemed pretty attached to it, though!" "I was relieved when they got rid of that scene," the actor said. " didn't like the idea of men making out." But in his own Total Film interview that same year, Dillon suggested he was more than happy to kiss the scene goodbye. Speaking with Total Film in 2005, Bacon said that he thought the reveal was "great," and blamed the film's financiers for its deletion. "But in that moment it was like 'You win some, you lose some we're moving on.'"įor the record, both Bacon and Dillon have talked about the abandoned homoerotic plot twist in the past. "I love surprise, and I love stuff that I don't see coming," he says. "They were supposed to look each other up and down and then wham - go at it." But just before cameras rolled, the director says that one of the actors - he declines to specify which - made it clear he didn't want to film the scene as written, and McNaughton had to let that particular twist go. "In the original version of the scene, Matt walks into his bathroom to take a shower and there's Kevin," McNaughton recalls. Not only that, but screenwriter Stephen Peters penned a hot shower scene that reveals them as lovers who planned to screw over Dillon's teen girlfriends and take the money for themselves. In the final act, though, it turns out that Bacon and Dillon have been in cahoots the whole time. Premiering in theaters on March 20, 1998, Wild Things features the unlikely threesome of Neve Campbell, Denise Richards and Matt Dillon pulling off a crazy extortion scheme under the nose of Kevin Bacon's dogged Miami police detective. "When I first the read the script, I was like, 'I didn't see that coming!'" McNaughton remembers now of the deleted reveal. But in a new interview with Yahoo Entertainment, the filmmaker says that one particular twist proved too wild to make the final cut of the cult favorite. (Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection)įor 25 years and counting, John McNaughton's sweaty Florida-set thriller, Wild Things, has kept viewers hot and bothered with its blend of steamy sex scenes and crazy plot twists. Neve Campbell and Denise Richards in John McNaughton's Wild Things.
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