“Wild Things” homoerotic shower scene between Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon was cut from movie

What a pity this didn’t come too pass because it really should have.

Wild Things director John McNaughton is sharing one steamy twist that didn’t make it into the film’s final cut. The characters played by Kevin Bacon and Matt Dillon were supposed to take the film’s memorably homoerotic shower scene featuring a full frontal Bacon was supposed to go much further.

“In the original version of the scene, Matt walks into his bathroom to take a shower and there’s Kevin,” McNaughton told Yahoo Entertainment in a new story for the film’s 25th anniversary. “They were supposed to look each other up and down and then wham — go at it.”

The 1998 thriller centered around two high school students, Suzie Toller and Kelly Van Ryan (Neve Campbell and Denise Richards, respectively), who, alongside their guidance counselor Sam Lombardo (Dillon), attempt to steal a multimillion-dollar settlement from Kelly’s mom — all while crooked cop Ray Duquette (Bacon) is hot on their trail. The end of the movie offers a doozy of a shocker: Ray and Sam have actually been in cahoots the entire time.

Entertainment Weekly reports that McNaughton removed the sexual sparks from the scene after some pushback. “I love surprise, and I love stuff that I don’t see coming,” he said, refusing to specify which star did not want to shoot the homoerotic tryst. “But in that moment it was like, ‘You win some, you lose some; we’re moving on.'”

Here’s what the leading men said in past interviews about the cut scene:

Bacon: “I thought it was great because the whole movie is about secrets coming out, right? As reveals go, that one was just huge. Unfortunately, the financiers didn’t like the idea of men making out. They felt it went too far. They felt it wasn’t right.”

Dillon: “Man, I was relieved when they got rid of that scene. Kevin seemed pretty attached to it, though!” He also described the duo’s relationship as “one twist too many, man, one twist too many.”