Thurm made the claims in his newly released memoir, “Sex, Drugs & Pilot Season: Confessions of a Casting Director.”
Thurm says that Reed was difficult on the set of a TV movie.“I was embarrassed and mortified … getting it up was a specialty of mine,” Thurm, now 80, explains with a laugh. “I couldn’t do it because he was Rock Hudson! It so intimidated me. Someone said, ‘Well, why didn’t you just b–w him?’ I said, ‘Because I was too …’ I couldn’t do anything.”— was unperturbed by the failed sexual encounter as “it had happened to him before.
Despite that small blip with Hudson, the casting honcho claims to have had a more successful rendezvous with Robert Reed, who was best known for playingAt the time, Thurm had cast and was producing the 1976 TV movie “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,” starring a young John Travolta. He claims that Reed was irked at having to play second fiddle to Travolta and particularly incensed by having to have his hair kinked and then unkinked — a laborious process — in one day.Thurm cast Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”“It was known ” Thurm says. “But I didn’t go in there with the intention of that.
“And then, I don’t know, I just started rubbing his back. I thought, ‘Well that’s what you do in a situation like that.’ I had no intention of anything more than that. But he seemed to respond.”Thurm notes with a laugh that after the assignation Reed “went back to being the same pr–k he was before.”Thurm recounts his many years working as a casting director in his book.
Thurm’s skills are famously displayed in his cast decisions for “Grease,” “Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “Airplane.” He also worked on dozens of TV shows, including “The Golden Girls,” “Taxi,” “The Love Boat,” “Family Ties” and “Miami Vice.”
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