Let's discuss Matt Dillon in the movie Wild Things(1998)

Quotes from the article, apparently Matt backed out:

The 1998 erotic thriller "Wild Things," which celebrates its 25th anniversary today, was almost a different movie for a variety of reasons.

The film’s director John McNaughton revealed new details about the production, including a twist with Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon’s characters.

"Wild Things" features Dillon pulling off an extortion scheme with high schoolers played by Neve Campbell and Denise Richards, under the nose of Bacon’s police detective character.

In the third act though, it’s revealed Dillon and Bacon were the ones in cahoots. And in a new interview with Yahoo Entertainment, McNaughton said they were more than just partners in crime. In the script, written by Stephen Peters, there was supposed to be a shower scene that would have revealed them as lovers as well.

The director told the outlet, "In the original version of the scene, Matt walks into his bathroom to take a shower and there's Kevin. They were supposed to look each other up and down and then wham — go at it."

However, McNaughton said that just before cameras rolled, one of the actors made it clear he didn’t want to film the scene, and that plot element was dropped.

He does not specify which actor objected, but as the director, he took it in stride.

"I love surprise, and I love stuff that I don't see coming," he said. "But in that moment it was like, 'You win some, you lose some; we're moving on.'"

Both Bacon and Dillon have discussed the dropped scene in previous interviews.

In 2005, Bacon told Total Film he thought the reveal was "great" but blamed the film’s financiers for having the scene canceled, claiming, "[They] didn't like the idea of men making out."

Dillon also spoke with Total Film separately in 2005, and admitted, "I was relieved when they got rid of that scene." He also said, "Kevin seemed pretty attached to it, though"

McNaughton told Yahoo Entertainment there are still hints at the true nature of the character’s relationship in the final cut, specifically a bar scene that plays during the film’s credits.

Kevin Bacon and Matt Dillon together in 2006. Their characters originally had a sex scene in the movie "Wild Things," but the director says one of them decided not to participate in the scene.

They all might be at peak hotness in this movie

Fuck Matt being so weak.

It would have made more sense if the two men were bi or gay because there was no other reason besides money for Kevin's character to risk his job as a police detective and team up with Matt/Sam Lombardo if he wasn't already sexually attracted to the man. There's a scene where they meet at a bar and they're both looking at each other the way a lion would look at a gazelle. A piece of meat.

He's gonna be 60 next month.

R5 a more recent pic from last year.