‘Sex Scene Starring Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon Almost Made it into ‘Wild Things”

• The 1998 movie “Wild Things” almost featured a intercourse scene between Kevin Bacon and Matt Dillon. 
• According to director John McNaughton, it by no means occurred as a result of one actor refused to movie it.
• “You win some, you lose some,” McNaughton stated in regards to the scrapped scene. 

“Wild Things” almost featured a intercourse scene between Kevin Bacon and Matt Dillon, however the second was scrapped when certainly one of them refused to movie it, the director stated. 

Speaking to Ethan Alters for Yahoo News on the twenty fifth anniversary of the 1998 cult basic, director John McNaughton recalled one of many extra shocking moments within the authentic script that by no means acquired shot.

“Wild Things,” which additionally starred Neve Campbell and Denise Richards, follows a police detective uncovering a conspiracy in a case involving a high-school steering counselor accused of rape by two feminine college students.

The movie options a number of twists and turns. However, one of the crucial surprising moments scriptwriter Stephen Peters initially included was a intercourse scene between Dillon’s and Bacon’s characters after it’s revealed the pair are conspiring collectively towards the 2 younger ladies. 

“In the original version of the scene, Matt walks into his bathroom to take a shower and there’s Kevin,” McNaughton stated. “They were supposed to look each other up and down and then wham — go at it.”

But it by no means occurred, as a result of one of many two refused to movie the scene because it was initially portrayed within the script. According to Alters, McNaughton refused to say who. Representatives for Dillon and Bacon didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark. 

“I love surprise, and I love stuff that I don’t see coming,” he stated. “But in that moment it was like ‘You win some, you lose some; we’re moving on.'”

Dillon advised Total Film in 2005 that he was “relieved” when the scene was reduce, whereas Bacon advised the publication that the twist would’ve been “great,” finally blaming the movie’s financiers for taking it out as he believed they “didn’t like the idea of men making out.”

McNaughton made a number of different revelations elsewhere within the Yahoo interview, together with that Marvel star Robert Downey Jr. was initially slated to play Dillon’s character. 

According to the director, they ended up going with Dillon over Downey Jr. partly as a result of his substance-abuse points on the time made him a legal responsibility for the studio manufacturing and partly as a result of they have been unable to finalize a cope with his representatives. 

Looking again, McNaughton stated he believes the proper actor acquired the position.

“As my dear mother used to say, ‘Everything happens for a reason,'” he stated.