10+ Interesting Things About Kevin Bacon Fans Didn't Know

He has starred in movies, shows, and even music videos.

But just because he is super famous, that doesn't mean fans know everything about him! Let's get into some random things about the star that fans didn't know!

This is absolutely wild, considering Kevin has appeared in five different films that all went on to either win or receive Best Picture nominations at the Academy Awards.

“Do I have fears about the things coming out of my mouth? I do — and the things that I do — but if you look at my work, I’ve never really been afraid to do anything,” he said.

Kevin's disguise was made by professional makeup artists and special effects people.

When Graham Norton asked him how he felt being just another anonymous face in the crowd, Kevin replied "I hated it."

Kevin's father, Edmund Bacon, was an incredibly well-known city planner in Philadelphia. He made the cover of the November 6th issue in 1964.

Edmund is without exaggeration the man who literally built the city of Philadelphia.

Kevin was acting in a play and Kyra was in the audience. She even mustered up the courage to talk to him afterward and commend him on his performance.

Years later, they reunited and began dating while filming Lemon Sky.

“She demands a level of openness from me. It’s all thoughts and feelings with her, that’s her approach with us, whether it’s with my son, daughter or me. Communication is something she brought to us as a family, 100%.”

When he's not lighting up both the big and small screen, Kevin plays guitar and sings in his band The Bacon Brothers alongside his brother, Michael.

Here, you can see him perform a duet with his wife, Kyra.

Kevin directed a short film for Funny Or Die called A Duck Walks In on a Couple Having Sex. No, the title isn't a metaphor.

As if that wasn't hilarious enough on its own, Kevin was even able to trick his wife into playing the duck!

Kevin says "It's nice to see you again" as opposed to "It's nice to meet you" because he's so bad at remembering who he has and hasn't met.

However, when James Corden put him to the test with a new game called "Know Your Co-Star," Kevin passed with flying colors.

Bacon said, “I was super into being famous and wealthy. And, frankly, I know you hear it all the time, and I know it probably gets a little old, but I really thought that it would be a way to get girls.”

Kevin and Kyra appeared on the genealogy show Finding Your Roots. Unfortunately for the couple, their greatest fears were confirmed after learning that they're technically ninth cousins.

It's only the second most upsetting thing in this video, next to Kevin's hair.

“Part of that was the fact that I was so inundated with violence every day I went to work. I was killing somebody, somebody was killing me, I was using guns, knives, fighting, and that kind of caught up to me. It was a dark [expletive] place to go to.”

The track was done to honor Barak Obama.

Kevin, Kyra, as well as various other big-name celebrities, made cameo appearances as a way of celebrating the former president's inauguration.

Kevin played the character Chip Deller in the film.

Animal House not only helped launch Kevin's career but several other Hollywood elites such as John Belushi and Karen Allen.

“Because I’m not a public speaker. I don’t even like making toasts. It hits me in a way I can’t really explain. I’ve literally sat with a therapist to try to figure out what that is, because I’m such a public persona.”

"I say the secret to longevity is longevity. Hang in there long enough and keep working. When I was a kid I thought I knew everything there was to know about the business and the more I work, the more I know how much more there is to know and how much more I have to learn."

"As important as this career is to me, I feel like, for me at least, I had to find something that was more important even than that. For me, that was family, love and nature – something to focus on when things aren’t as good as they can be [because] for the most part they're not as good as they can be."

"I've done tonnes of things that have not been successful – movie after movie after movie that just went right in the toilet. You have to get yourself ready for those dips."

Kevin has never openly admitted what the actual dollar amount was, other than to say that it was in the millions.

Sadly, most of Kevin's life savings were completely lost.

Not only has Kevin played a ton of Bostonian characters over the years, but Boston is also the city where he fell in love with his wife, Kyra Sedgwick!

Kevin also says that he is very impressed with how well people from Boston know their own history.

To celebrate the anniversary of his most iconic film, Footloose, Kevin made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

He recreated the "angry warehouse" and "school dance" sequences with absolute perfection!

"Often what you hear from celebrities is that it's such a pain in the [expletive]– Oh, I can't go anywhere, and people hassle me and all that kind of stuff. And yeah, there is a certain amount of that, it's true, but 99% of it is really good," he said.

"I wanted to be the center of attention, definitely. Some actors will claim that's not part of their DNA, and it's bullsh*t. You either want to be the center of attention, or you just are a liar! Because that's what we do. I mean, we perform."

Kevin asked production to check him into the local high school. They actually created the character's life as if he really did exist!

Kevin said that the only people who actually knew the truth were the principal and the guidance counselor.

The object or the premise of this game is that any actor in Hollywood, living or dead, can be connected to the actor Kevin Bacon in six steps or less.

If it sounds complicated, that's because it is.

“I want to lose myself in it. I want the time between action and cut not to feel like I’m me. I want to feel like I’m in someone else’s shoes,” he said.

“I’ve tried that in the past, or had my flirtations with it, and it doesn’t work. It’s just not who I am. I just have to be true to the character.”

"I like psychological thrillers because they are projects that have real high stakes. Life or death. And they are very challenging from an acting standpoint."

“A leading man is a man who, it doesn't matter. You give him the three Gs, which is the gun, the girl, and the good lighting—that man is going to be eminently watchable. You're going to want to see everything that that person does. That's not me.”

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