Neve Campbell & Denise Richards
Los Angeles, CA 1997 2
Wild Things, Los Angeles, 1998. I can’t believe it but I shot this 27 years ago. I had no budget, no set—just an empty studio, so I winged it. I grabbed four 2x10s, nailed them together into a square frame, lined it with a plastic drop cloth, and filled it with maybe 10 inches of water. That was it. A little make shift dipping pool. It was just cold water from a hose, but Denise and Nev hopped right in the murky water. I had them lay on their stomach so that all you could see was their head and shoulders coming out of the water. With the right angle, it looked like they were coming out of an actual lake—it was simple and sexy. But it was a total illusion.
It was this pull-something-out-of-nothing kind of movie poster photo shoot that somehow really worked. And not only was the movie great, people loved it, but I mean, even today people still remember that poster. And I’m like, really? There’s nothing happening except that they were in the water. But somehow the elements came together. That Wild Things poster became this iconic thing.
We were all young and building our careers—me, the actors, even the execs. And we built these relationships that have lived on for years. I ended up working with Kevin Bacon and his brother a lot—album covers, magazines, all kinds of stuff. When I shot with Nev again I got this beautiful, super, super close-up macro shot of her eye. I blew one up really big, and gave it to my ophthalmologist. Denise and I shot together a number of times as well—I even had her pose for my pin-up book. There were all these connections where our careers kept intersecting.
The studio marketing director is still one of my closest friends today, and every time we meet someone new, he brings it up. “You know we met on Wild Things, right?” Like clockwork.
No big crew, no money, no major concept—just creativity, and a group of people working hard to make something of themselves. That’s what gets me going—making something out of nothing. And yeah, it was just some 2x10’s and some dirty water. But it made magic.
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