Kevin Bacon Reveals Lifeless Physique Was Discovered Throughout Filming of His Film ‘Wild Issues’

Kevin Bacon revealed that one thing unsettling occurred on the set of his movie Wild Issues.

Throughout a video interview with Selection the place he mirrored a few of his most well-known strains as he promoted his new Prime Video sequence The Bondsman, the Footloose actor, 66, recalled his dialogue from the 1998 movie earlier than sharing a short anecdote about how the film’s crew as soon as discovered a lifeless physique throughout filming.

“We have been out within the swamp one night time — a variety of mosquitoes, wow — and we have been capturing some scene, I don’t bear in mind what it was, by form of a river,” Bacon defined. “They’d form of floated a raft on the market in order that they may put a light-weight.”

“Unexpectedly I hear throughout the walkie-talkie: ‘Hey, I feel I simply noticed a floater.’ And it was a physique that was floating by,” he recalled with amusing earlier than including, “It was form of indicative of the vibe of the film.” 

The movie’s director John McNaughton additionally recalled the second — which occurred in a marsh within the Everglades — throughout a earlier interview with Leisure Weekly. He defined on the time that capturing needed to be briefly halted on the movie as they waited for authorities to get to the scene to research the incident.

“We known as the police, and so they truly grabbed the physique and saved it from entering into our shot,” McNaughton shared for EW’s 1998 Spring Film Preview.

Wild Issues adopted a police detective Sergeant Ray Duquette (Bacon) who uncovers a conspiracy behind a case involving a highschool steering counselor when accusations of rape are made in opposition to him by two feminine college students, in accordance with a synopsis of the movie. It stars Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell and Denise Richards.

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The movie was imagined to be full of tons of twists and turns, and earlier this month, in Esquire’s “For the File” video, Bacon additionally revealed that sudden twist was imagined to occur within the movie: a kiss between him and Dillon’s steering counselor character Sam Lombardo.

“Within the unique script, we begin making out,” Bacon recalled. “A part of what was loopy in regards to the film was that there have been all these twists … you understand, that was just like the hook of the film, so to me, [the kiss] was an excellent twist. That’s all. I used to be like, ‘That’d be an superior twist.’ ”

“However I do not know. For some motive, it obtained lower. We didn’t shoot it. I do not suppose we shot it. I feel it simply obtained lower,” Bacon added.

When an off-screen producer then requested Bacon to substantiate that he was “connected to” the kiss scene — an announcement they beforehand made earlier than the actor regarded again on the lower second — he stated in response, “Yeah, I undoubtedly was. Have a look at him — he is beautiful.”

The Bondsman season 1 is now streaming on Prime Video.