Harry Hamlin: ‘Clash of the Titans was fraught – the producers didn’t speak to me again for 25 years’
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “He was basically indicating that he was doing a stupid movie to make money… to the film’s star!” open image in gallery Breakout role: Hamlin as Perseus in the 1981 fantasy film ‘Clash of the Titans’ During Titans, Hamlin struck up a relationship with his co-star, the Bond girl Ursula Andress, who is 16 years his senior. “No studio wanted to pair me up with a female lead after that – they thought the audience would think, ‘How weird that a gay guy is paired up with a woman’,” he says. The soapy TV drama LA Law, which he starred in from 1986 to 1991, got him voted People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 1987 – but says that it “beige-d out” the parts he played. And in what I’m sure is a total coincidence, one episode of Real Housewives saw Hamlin make the ladies his “famous” Bolognese, which was so well-received that it got Hamlin his own cooking show.
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