Harry Hamlin is getting candid about his career. In a new interview with People, the 70-year-old actor reflected on his role in the 1982 film Making Love, Click inside to read more… “I was told by a lot of people, you can’t do that movie,” he revealed. “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.” “I didn’t see it that way,” Harry told the outlet. “I was looking for something serious and something meaningful, rather than doing a movie about vampire bats invading a small town in in the Midwest, which is the type of fare I was being offered at the time.” He went on to say that the film, in which he plays a writer named Bart who begins an affair with a young doctor named Zack (Michael Ontkean), was “way ahead of its time.” “Even though I was told by my friends not to do it, my agent said I should,” he noted. “He said I was somewhat Teflon because I was out in the press having had a son with Ursula Andress.
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.” But in retrospect, he thinks the critical and cultural response to the movie “ended” his film career. “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,” Harry said. “I’ve done independent films but never a studio film.
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