Nothing might’ve ready Kevin Bacon for the really wild factor he witnessed whereas filming the 1998 erotic crime thriller, Wild Things.

As a part of a current Variety video, the 66-year-old actor was challenged to learn a few of his most iconic traces and accurately determine which film they got here from. And whereas he may not have recalled his actual verbiage from Wild Issues, Bacon actually remembered the second when the solid and crew found a useless physique whereas on a late-night swamp shoot.

“We had been out within the swamp one evening — a whole lot of mosquitoes, wow — and we had been capturing 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 might put out a lightweight.”

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It additionally illuminated one thing else floating close by. “Abruptly I hear throughout the walkie-talkie: ‘Hey, uh, I believe I simply noticed a floater.’ And it was a physique that was floating by,” he continued, laughing to himself. “It was type of indicative of the vibe of the film.”

The movie’s director John McNaughton beforehand told Entertainment Weekly as part of our 1998 Spring Movie Preview that they had been within the means of filming a scene in a marsh within the Everglades when a useless physique immediately floated in entrance of their cameras. Manufacturing was then halted till authorities arrived on the scene.

“We referred to as the police, and so they truly grabbed the physique and stored it from stepping into our shot,” he defined on the time.

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Govt produced by Bacon, Wild Issues follows youngsters Kelly (Denise Richards) and Suzie (Neve Campbell) as they staff up with their highschool steering counselor Sam (Matt Dillon) to rip-off their approach into acquiring an early belief fund settlement from Kelly's mother (Theresa Russell).

With Sergeant Ray Duquette (Bacon) scorching on their heels, it turns into clear that everybody concerned within the incident is keen to double-cross one another to make sure that they obtain the ultimate payout and that their secrets and techniques stay buried, prompting a complete host of unusual twists and turns.

Talking with EW in 1998, Bacon famous that his preliminary response to studying the erotic thriller’s script was that it was “the trashiest piece of crap I’ve ever learn.”

Nevertheless, he discovered himself changing into increasingly intrigued as its story acquired progressively extra twisted. He continued, “However each few pages, I stored discovering that it wasn’t what it appeared. Each few pages, there was one other shock.”

Watch Bacon recall the expertise within the video above.

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