Kevin Bacon has had himself a rattling nice profession that spans effectively over 4 many years at this level. Relationship again to his earliest days with roles within the seminal comedy “Animal Home” and the all-time slasher basic “Friday the thirteenth,” he is had a profession that the majority actors can solely dream of. Nevertheless it was within the ’80s when Bacon actually broke out because the lead of “Footloose,” which noticed him dancing his ass off in a city that wasn’t keen on dancing.
The film was a large hit in its day and helped make Bacon’s profession. All these years later, he is nonetheless requested to do the dance from the movie once in a while. Whereas he is typically gracious, do not anticipate him to do the dance at a marriage. Talking throughout a profession retrospective panel to advertise his new Amazon Prime Video collection “The Bondsman” at this yr’s SXSW in Austin, Texas, Bacon described being at a marriage and listening to the music from “Footloose” enjoying as his “worst nightmare.” This is what he needed to say about it:
“My worst nightmare is to be at a marriage and the DJ places on the music … They all the time begin out being concerning the bride, after which there’s alcohol concerned. And by about 10:30, the track comes on, and all of a sudden the marriage turns into about me getting out and dancing. Folks will actually kind a circle round me and clap their fingers like I am a skilled monkey.”
Kevin Bacon does not need the marriage to be about him
After greater than 40 years, it is comprehensible that anybody would not need to be referred to as upon to do one thing they did of their youth. But, Bacon’s purpose for not desirous to relive his hit movie is definitely fairly rattling charming. Talking additional, the actor defined that he merely does not need to pull any focus from the bride and groom on their large day.
“I all the time suppose to myself, ‘At the present time is just not imagined to be about me. That is imagined to be concerning the bride and groom. I’ve gone to DJs and stated, ‘Please do not play that track.'”
“It isn’t as a result of I do not love the track, I do love this track. It isn’t as a result of I am not pleased with the film, I am 100% pleased with it,” Bacon added, making it clear that he does not have any sick will in the direction of “Footloose.” Relatively, he simply feels {that a} wedding ceremony needs to be concerning the individuals getting married, and never the well-known man at that wedding ceremony who as soon as danced in an ’80s cinematic basic.
Throughout the panel, Bacon additionally joked that “Footloose” is a part of the wealthy legacy of movies he is been in which have gone on to be remade, becoming a member of “Flatliners” and a number of other others. Although, it is price noting, none of these remakes up to now have been fairly as profitable as the unique. The facility of Bacon is powerful and his essence not simply replicated, it appears.
“The Bondsman” premieres on Prime Video on April 3, 2025.
