On the latest episode of ItHappenedInHollywood, Harry Hamlin opens up to hosts SethAbramovitch and ChipPope about the part that 'completely ended' his career Listen/Subscribe: Stream on Spotify:
. Warner Bros. had offered him "the Clint" — a three-picture deal named for the one given to Clint Eastwood.Greystoke: The Legend of TarzanInstead, he made the schlocky Greek-myth epic, a part he took because it would allow him to work alongside his acting hero, Sir Laurence Olivier, who played Zeus to Hamlin's Perseus. The film shot in 1978 but was released in 1981 — as it took Ray Harryhausen three years to complete the painstaking stop-motion effects.
"Everyone in town had turned the movie down," says Hamlin. "Because at that time the idea of a gay world was still not accepted." The actor read the script and thought, "This is exactly the kind of movie I'm looking for. I want to do something that's relevant and cutting edge." Hamlin had a tradition of cooking a chicken dinner for his female co-stars before shooting commenced, and continued the tradition with his male romantic lead, Michael Ontkean.
Before the scene, Hamlin suggested the kiss be a "soft, only slightly open-mouth kiss." Ontkean agreed, but when Hiller called action, he "put his hand behind my neck, came in and just shoved his tongue down my throat."
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