Kevin Bacon is celebrating his 65th birthday. Here's a look back at his biggest roles from 'Footloose' and 'Apollo 13,' to his greatest role as a dad of two, and husband to Kyra Sedgwick.
Bacon had found success as an actor, starring in movies like"National Lampoon's Animal House" and"Friday the 13th," and was gaining momentum when he was cast in his breakout role in"In the movie, Bacon plays a teenager who moves from Chicago to a small town in Oklahoma.
While he was not a fan of the movie in the past, Bacon seems to have warmed up to the film, telling Willie Geist on Today's"Sunday Sitdown" that he has"come around on ‘Footloose’" and called being a part of it"a great gift." One thing Bacon has not come around to: deejays playing the song every time they spot him at a wedding, telling Conan O'Brien he will pay them not to play the song.
When appearing on"The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" in 2014, Kevin Bacon recreated the"angry warehouse dance" from"Footloose." In the movie, Bacon plays Val McKee, a handyman in a small town who finds himself having to band together with the rest of the townspeople to protect themselves against unusual underground creatures that are terrorizing where they live.
He went on to say, however, that once he got on set he had a"magical time" working on it, noting he was impressed by all the"practical effects." During a 2020 appearance on"The Rich Eisen Show," Bacon recalled shooting one particular scene with Nicholson. While Hanks and Paxton managed not to throw up, the same could not be said for a cameraman. As Bacon told Entertainment Weekly, it was"interesting" getting"thrown up on when it's zero-G is that it hovers there for a while," and he just had to wait for gravity to come back for it to hit him.
"There had been a lot of Iraq movies," Bacon told SFGate in March 2010."Some of them were fantastic, but nobody went to see them. Obviously, I don't want to make something that nobody is going to go see." Other notable films Bacon has been involved with include,"Frost/Nixon,""Mystic River,""X-Men: First Class,""Crazy, Stupid, Love,""Black Mass" and"They/Them."Kevin Bacon starred on the hit FOX drama"The Following" for three seasons from 2013 to 2015.
Kevin Bacon then starred in"I Love Dick" alongside Kathryn Hahn, a role which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. Most recently, Bacon starred in"City on a Hill," a Showtime series which aired for three seasons from 2019 to 2022.
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