‘Fatal Attraction’ Director Spills Spicy Secret About Michael Douglas and Glenn Close’s Love Scene

Glenn Close bared almost all in 1987’s Fatal Attraction, but it turns out her leading man was baring more than anyone realized.

Director Adrian Lyne dropped a bombshell revelation at a special screening of the R-rated thriller at the Academy Museum on Thursday, August 13, confessing that Michael Douglas went commando for the film’s now-infamous kitchen sink romp.

“He’s got a good sense of humor, Michael,” Lyne told the stunned audience. “I liked at the end when he was trying to get out of his pants, and I was having hysterics watching him.”

“Now, I’m going to be gross,” he continued. “He said, ‘Are you sure you want to shoot it this way?’ Meaning, I was shooting it from the front. And he was anxious about that, but very courageous.”

The payoff? A single, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it frame that Lyne says exposed a bit more of the Romancing the Stone actor, 81, than audiences bargained for. “There’s one frame with his [expletive] in,” Lyne admitted. “So quick, you didn’t see it.”

As for that legendary scene between Close’s Alex Forrest and Douglas’s Dan Gallagher, Lyne revealed he deliberately ditched the bedroom for the kitchen sink, calling bed scenes boring by comparison. The sink setup, he said, gave him room to get creative, including a splash of water across Close’s chest that added an extra jolt of sizzle to the moment.

The Damages alum, 79, opened up about the scene during a November 2025 appearance on The Graham Norton Show, confessing she’d rewatched the film recently and was taken aback by just how much skin she showed. “I mean, they weren’t anything spectacular to see, but they were visible,” she joked to Graham Norton.

Decades later, her role as the obsessive Alex remains one of the most talked-about performances of her career. The film became 1987’s second-highest-grossing movie and earned six Oscar nominations, including a Best Actress nod for Close.