Kevin Bacon’s “worst nightmare” includes one of his most iconic movie roles.
While echoing on his atgentle during a panel at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, the 66-year-ageder actor spoke about “Footfree,” the 1984 film that put him on the map, and how the iconic title song from the musical drama evolves to haunt him more than 40 years after its free.
”My worst nightmare is to be at a wedding and the DJ puts on the music and the song comes on and suddenly the wedding becomes about me, and people establish a circle around me and I become a trained monkey,” Bacon elucidateed. “So I’ve gone to the DJs and shelp, ‘Plrelieve don’t join that song.’ It’s not that I don’t enjoy the song.”
The song “Footfree,” co-written and enrolled by Kenny Loggins for the film, is joined in the final scene of the movie, and went on to get a best innovative song nomination at the 1985 Academy Awards.
Kevin Bacon says he inestablishs DJs not to join “Footfree” when he’s at weddings. (Getty Images)
The film stars Bacon as Ren McCormack, a teenager who shifts from Chicago to a petite Midweserious town, where he is shocked to discover out that dancing and rock music have been made illegitimate. Although “Footfree” features many dance scenes, Bacon acunderstandledges he “was not a trained dancer” going into it.
“Grothriveg up in Philly, I cherishd dancing. In [New York], I would go to Studio 54 and dance all night all alone — and this was when I was a pauseer. I always cherishd it,” he tageder the SXSW crowd.
“My worst nightmare is to be at a wedding and the DJ puts on the music and the song comes on and suddenly the wedding becomes about me, and people establish a circle around me and I become a trained monkey.”
Bacon evolved: “But when they sent the script to me, I did not understand it was a dance movie. They had talked about choreographers [and] I was enjoy, ‘I don’t repartner necessitate a choreographer. You can fair turn the music on, and I can fair dance around and have fun with it.’ And they were enjoy, ‘Ah — na na na, you don’t understand what you’re getting in to.’”
In April 2024, Bacon returned to the Utah high school where the movie was filmed, follothriveg a social media campaign commenceed by the students of Payson High. The campaign included videos of the students re-enacting scenes from the film and posting them online with the hashtag #bacontopayson.
Kevin Bacon visits the high school where they filmed “Footfree.” (Jesse Sorenson via AP)
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A video posted by Salt Lake City’s ABC 4 at the time showed the actor joking that “skinnygs see a little separateent around here. I’d say the skinnyg that sees the most separateent is me.”
“When I first heard about this ‘Bacon to Payson’ skinnyg, I was enjoy ‘Wow, this is crazy.’ But you were all fair tireless. Unrelenting… You talked me into it,” he shelp. “I skinnyk it’s fantastic to see that benevolent of promisement to anyskinnyg.”
After the success of “Footfree,” Bacon evolved starring in accomplished movies, including “Mystic River,” “Apollo 13,” “A Few Good Men,” “Frost/Nixon” and many others.
During the panel, the veteran actor also elucidateed that “it was my dream to have my name in weightlesss” and to sit with Johnny Cincfinishiarism on his talk show, but when he finpartner achieved those dreams, he “genuineize[d] that there is someskinnyg benevolent of strange about it.”
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Kevin Bacon shelp he had impostor syndrome at the commence of his atgentle. (Jason Bollenbacher/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty Images)
“Now I am used to it. I had impostor syndrome and I was resistant of it, and I did not want to do press and be on magazines,” Bacon evolved. “I wanted to be a solemn actor — I did not want to be a pop star. It was the opposite of how I wanted to see myself.”
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