“I don’t want to see my mum in that way either. “My daughters have not seen it and they don’t want to see it which I’m glad, I don’t want them to. “Having teenage daughters now, knowing I did this movie, it has been a little challenging explaining it to them and their friends have seen it,” she said. “If we did it today, I think it would be a different storyline.”Īnd while Richards has no regrets about being in the film, she confessed that there are challenges associated with her involvement. While Wild Things remains a potent cultural touchstone of the late 1990s, Richards said in 2020 that there are aspects of that movie which would be “not appropriate” for today, especially the subplot where Dillon’s character is a teacher to Campbell and Richards’ on-screen avatars. Kevin Bacon went full-frontal nudity in the film. Unfortunately, the financiers didn’t like the idea of men making out. I thought it was great because the whole movie is about secrets coming out, right? “Actually, the movie almost came with another surprise for people to talk about, because Matt was going to climb in the shower with me. There was another scene that ended up being cut because, at the time, it perceived as being too wild for even Wild Things. It really wasn’t a big deal.”īut Bacon said that the little flash in that scene wasn’t meant to be the end of it. Later in 2005, Bacon told Total Film, “I didn’t think any more about it so I was shocked, really shocked, when everyone kept on about it after the movie’s release. The movie’s editor, Elena Maganini, had wanted that take and McNaughton said he told her that Bacon wasn’t going to like that but when they called the actor, he had apparently said, “Well, how do I look?” When McNaughton replied, “You look good, Kevin”, the Footloose star said, “No problem!”.īacon at one point recalled that his full frontal scene was the subject of every interview and press conference in the US, but that he was never asked about it in Europe. As director John McNaughton explained, the scene was to have Bacon’s bits covered by a towel but in one take, the towel didn’t do its job. Wild Things was one of the last erotic thrillers of the 1980s and 1990s.īut a “no nudity” clause didn’t stop Bacon’s, well, bacon, from being on full show. Starring Campbell, Richards (relatively fresh on the scene, coming off the back of her break-out role in Starship Troopers), Bacon, Matt Dillon and Bill Murray, Wild Things still holds a spot in the cultural canon, as one of the last sexual thrillers that were in vogue for a time in American cinema – Basic Instinct, Body Heat and Body of Evidence among them. It was all over the movie’s marketing – can anyone ever forget that poster – and the promise of that kiss, and a threesome, drew audiences in, tripling Wild Things’ budget at the box office. It’s like everyone in the audience was Kevin Bacon’s Ray – voyeuristically witnessing something that wasn’t for them.Įxcept of course, it was. The image of Campbell and Denise Richards passionately kissing in a motel pool after a knockdown fight sent hearts racing. Campbell’s “trailer trash” character Suzie couldn’t have been more different from the two roles that made her famous, Party of Five’s Julia Salinger and Scream’s Sidney Prescott. Wild Things was seen as quite the risk for Neve Campbell, then an “it”-girl-next-door. It also famously featured a same-sex pair-up in an era when such things were not so common in Hollywood movies. And it has more twists than a bag of chocolate-covered pretzels. In the 25 years – this month – since Wild Things came out in cinemas, the sexual thriller has lost none of its allure.
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