Could you imagine Footloose without Kevin Bacon? Well according the actor, who is six degrees from every actor in Hollywood, that was almost the case. He told Details magazine, “Craig Zadan, one of the producers on both films (referring to the sh!tty remake that’s coming out in the fall), actually found my screen test in a vault and sent it to me. What had been going on back then was the producers and the director wanted me, but the head of the studio famously said, ‘He’s just not fuckable.’ So they went and did their own screen test. Watching it, I got a chance to see this kid with this hunger and ambition and energy. There were parts of myself that I didn’t even recognize. You could just see that I was going to fuckin’ go in there and kill it.” Thankfully he nailed the screen test because he is the only actor that I could ever see playing Ren McCormack.
BTW according to Rob Lowe’s must read autobiography Stories I Only Tell My Friends, he auditioned for the role, but he blew his knew and the audition when he attempted that infamous slide that Bacon perfected!
Before Kevin Bacon was saying, “Thank you sir, may I have another” role, he was saying it in Animal House. He hasn’t aged a day since he was 19 in that 1978 classic movie.
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Kevin Bacon and his wife of 22 years, Kyra Sedgwick went to a NY Knicks game and he tried his hardest not to look at the cheerleaders, but it didn’t work. I wonder if the man that every actor in Hollywood is six degrees of separation from is going to get the third degree from his wife over it? For some reason I doubt it because they seem very much in love and this won’t be a Closer on their relationship.
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So Kevin Bacon and his wife Kyra Sedgwick went to the UJA (United Jewish Appeal) Federation Of New York’s Broadcast, Cable & Video Awards and all I could think of was, “Is it kosher for Kevin Bacon to be at a Jewish event?” Oy!
OK, I will be honest I had no reason to post this picture except that I liked the caption I came up with for it. Can you tell what type of day I had if that is the best I can come up with?
TV Guide asked Kevin Bacon what he thinks of them remaking Footloose with Zac Efron in interview with his wife about TNT's The Closer and here is what he said.
"I've heard about it," says Bacon, "and it's great, but of course the truth is they're not really remaking the movie that I was in. They're remaking the Broadway musical [which premiered on the planks in 1998]."
In other words, what we have here is a situation exactly à la Hairspray, says Bacon. "You had a movie that was not a musical becoming a Broadway musical, and they make a movie of that."
As someone who saw the play, I hope it is more like the movie because it was no where as good as the movie.
