Harry Hamlin on how his gay role in 1982 still impacts audiences despite being “sanitized” by the studio

The first script that I read [ for the 1982 film ‘Making Love’] was much edgier than the script that ended up being shot and that’s what I liked about it. They kind of whitewashed it a little bit along the way thinking that the edginess of it would turn the audience off. They sanitized it at the studio.

I read the script and I said ‘well this is about something actually going on in the world that nobody wants to talk about.’ It’s a real subject that’s real in society. It’s something that needs to be discussed and you start a conversation about this.

To this day, not a week goes by when someone doesn’t come up to me and says ‘God, thank you

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