Harry Hamlin opened upon about his infamous film, “Making Love.”
In the 1982 movie, Hamlin played a gay writer who was having an affair with a married man.
Hamlin said of the film: “I was told by a lot of people, you can't do that movie. I think it had been offered to pretty much everybody in town and everyone had turned it down because they thought it might be damaging to their careers.”
He continued: “I didn't see it that way. I was looking for something serious and something meaningful, rather than doing a movie about vampire bats invading a small town in the Midwest, which is the type of fare I was being offered at the time.”
Hamlin’s agent urged him to do the movie.
He explained: “He said I was somewhat Teflon because I was out in the press having had a son with Ursula Andress.”
The actor added: “And he said, 'Everyone knows you're straight so you're going to be okay.' But I didn't really pay much attention to any of that noise. I thought it was interesting and bold. I was attracted to that."
According to Hamlin, the film “ended my film career.”
He shared: “For years, I'd think was that the reason why I stopped getting calls? And finally realized that was the last time I ever did a movie for a studio.”