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Actor Harry Hamlin thinks starring in the 1982 gay film Making Love may not have been helpful to his film career, but it's something he would do again, according to blog Greg in Hollywood.
Hamlin starred in the film as a writer who falls in love with a closeted and married doctor (Michael Ontkean). "At the time, I had about 70 percent of the people telling me not to do it," Hamlin says. "Hollywood wasn't ready for the movie at that time."
Though groundbreaking as one of the first studio productions to present a gay male couple as protagonists, Making Love was not a financial success upon its initial theatrical release. "It was probably 10-15 years ahead of its time," Hamlin says. "I'm not sure it was helpful to my future film career."
Asked if he'd reprise his character in a sequel, Hamlin says ""If they want to do something about a gay octogenarian, I may be up for it in a couple of years."
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