When Kevin Bacon found a real corpse floating on the set of sexcripts
“Uh … I think I just saw a body floating …” The actor remembers this crazy and macabre incident that stopped the filming of the film in 1997.
Reality caught up the fiction that day on the set of Sexcript (Wild Things in VO).
We were in the summer of 1997, in the heart of the swamps of the Everglades, in Florida. The weather is hot. Storms already disrupt the production of erotic thriller. Kevin Bacon finds himself filming a wet scene in the local marshes. When suddenly … he tells for Variety:
“We were shooting a night scene in the Marais, near a river. There were lots of mosquitoes everywhere, it was hellish. They had put a fear afloat to install a light to light up the place, which we could film in the dark …”
Suddenly, the macabre discovery. An icing radio message is heard on the team’s talkie-talkies: “Uh … I think I just saw a body floating.”
A real corpse had just dried up before their eyes. “”It was quite representative of the film’s atmosphere ” Has have fun today Baconwith a touch of sarcasm, he who played Ray Duquette, a suspicious and crooked cop, mixed with a sordid scam.
John Mcnaughtondirector of Sexcripthad already mentioned this incident to Entertainment Weekly and told: “”We called the police, who recovered the body just before he passed in our camera field … “
With its sulfurous scenes around Neve Campbell and Denis Richards, Sexcript marked its time and reported $ 70 million to the world box office.
