Kevin Bacon Recalls Shocking Off-Camera Moment During Filming for ‘Wild Things’

Kevin Bacon opened up about an unexpected twist that took place when he was filming the movie Wild Things in the late 1990s.

In a video interview with Variety, the actor recalled that the crew came upon a dead body in a river while on a late-night shoot in the murky Florida Everglades. “We were out in the swamp one night — a lot of mosquitoes, wow — and we were shooting some scene, I don’t remember what it was, by kind of a river," Bacon said. "They had floated a raft out there so that they could put [up] a light.