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New York Post
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Let's dance: Watch Kevin Bacon perform the ‘Footloose' theme song at Stagecoach
The Bacon Brothers kicked off their Sunday shoes. Kevin Bacon, 66, performed the song 'Footloose' by Kenny Loggins at the Stagecoach Festival alongside his brother, Michael Bacon. The tune is the title track in the 1984 musical drama 'Footloose,' which starred Kevin, Lori Singer, Chris Penn, John Lithgow and Sarah Jessica Parker. Advertisement 7 Kevin Bacon of The Bacon Brothers performs during Day 3 of the 2025 Stagecoach Festival. Getty Images for Stagecoach The siblings are no strangers to the stage as they've been performing as the Bacon Brothers for over 30 years. The country music festival's official TikTok shared footage from Kevin and Michael's rendition, which saw 'The Following' actor singing and playing the tambourine. The film score composer, 75, stood next to Kevin singing and playing the guitar. Advertisement The account captioned the video: 'The legend of the Bacon Brothers is alive in the Palomino.' Kevin also took to TikTok to share a clip of himself backstage, explaining to followers, 'Coming into our little Stagecoach home away from home,' before adding that he'd 'never opened for the Backstreet Boys before.' The Backstreet Boys closed down the festival with their 90-minute set and even had country superstar Luke Combs hit the stage to sing the 1999 hit tune 'I Want it That Way' with them. 7 Kevin Bacon performs at the 2025 Stagecoach Festival. Getty Images for Stagecoach Advertisement 7 The Bacon Brothers perform at the 2025 Stagecoach Festival. Getty Images for Stagecoach Kevin kicked off his movie career in 1979 after making his feature film debut in 'National Lampoon's Animal House.' Three years later, he was in the 1982 comedy/drama 'Diner' before landing the leading role in 'Footloose.' Kevin starred as Ren McCormack, a boy from Chicago who finds out the new town he calls home in Utah has outlawed dancing and rock music. Although it's the film that made him a star, Kevin isn't always keen on reliving the project during certain moments. Advertisement @stagecoach The legend of The Bacon Brothers is alive in the Palomino @The Bacon Brothers Watch the @Amazon Music livestream only on @Prime Video and Amazon Music's Twitch channel. #thebaconbrothers #stagecoach #country ♬ original sound – stagecoach 7 Kevin Bacon in 'Footloose.' ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection 'My worst nightmare is to be at a wedding and the DJ puts on the music,' he said at SXSW in March. 'They always start out being about the bride, and then there's alcohol involved. And by about 10:30, the song comes on, and suddenly the wedding becomes about me getting out and dancing. People will literally form a circle around me and clap their hands like I'm a trained monkey.' Now, Kevin will ask the DJ, 'Please don't play that song' while at weddings. 'It's not because I don't love the song, I do love this song,' the Golden Globe winner explained. 'It's not because I'm not proud of the movie, I'm 100% proud of it.' 7 Christopher Penn and Kevin Bacon in the 1984 film 'Footloose.' ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection 7 Kevin Bacon in the dance movie. ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection Kevin also reflected on landing the role and the fame that came with it. Advertisement 'The script was not written in that way at all, and there was no indication other than one line, like, he gets pissed off and dances or something,' he said about finding out it was a dance film. 'I was not a trained dancer.' 'It's what I wanted, I have no one to blame but myself. It was definitely my dream to have all those things,' the 'Bondsman' actor admitted of becoming a household name. 'But until you really have that, you don't really realize there's something kind of strange about it.' For Kevin, posing shirtless for teen magazines felt 'the opposite' of how he wanted to view himself at the time. 7 Michael Bacon and Kevin Bacon of The Bacon Brothers pose backstage at the Palomino Stage during the 2025 Stagecoach Festival . Getty Images for Stagecoach Advertisement These days, the 'I Love Dick' star has still only watched the cult classic 'three or four times.' Even more, Kevin confessed his two kids, Travis, 35, and Sosie, 33, whom he shares with wife Kyra Sedgwick, have never seen the movie. As he put it: 'What's up with that?'
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kevin Bacon Does A Spot-On Bryan Adams And A Very Off 'Summer Of '69'
Kevin Bacon's music skills are well known ― he's played Carnegie Hall and the Grand Ole Opry with sibling Michael as the Bacon Brothers. But 'The Bondsman' star stretched further in the faux documentary segment 'First Drafts of Rock' on Tuesday's episode of 'The Tonight Show.' Bacon nailed an impression of Bryan Adams singing his 1980s hit, 'Summer of '69.' However, the 'Footloose' actor and host Jimmy Fallon turned a song of reminiscence into a goofy tune that obsesses on six-strings. 'That was the summer we switched the strings,' they sang. For those of you who remember that six-string Adams bought 'at the five-and-dime' in his timeless classic, you may never think of it again without laughing. Jimmy Fallon Finds A Way To Help Trump With 2028 Fantasy. Sort Of. Jimmy Fallon Shreds Trump Over PBS Demand And Signal Goof In 1 Zesty Zinger Jimmy Fallon Gets Secret Text To Start Monologue. You Know Where This Is Going.
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kevin Bacon reflects on ‘Apollo 13' anniversary as NASA astronauts return to life on Earth: ‘I did feel for those people'
For Kevin Bacon, the 30th anniversary of his blockbuster film Apollo 13 couldn't have come at a more uncanny time. The 1995 Ron Howard-directed drama about astronauts aboard the 1970 moon-bound spacecraft who experience an accident that has mission control scrambling for a way to get them back to Earth, had striking similarities to recent news about U.S. astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. After spending an unexpected nine months in space, the pair finally returned home on March 18, much longer than the originally planned eight days. 'I did feel for those people,' Bacon, who stars in The Bondsman on Prime Video, told Yahoo Entertainment. 'Especially in their case, where you took off and you thought you were coming right back home.' 'There must've been such a challenge for everybody involved,' he added. 'I guess that's part of what you signed up for and the courage it takes to go up there.' While Bacon, who plays a demon bounty hunter in the new horror-comedy series that starts streaming April 3, said he 'doesn't really think back on my movies that much unless I'm being asked to remember,' he acknowledged that he's had to do that more than a few times, given his long career. 'I've made so many movies that they keep having these anniversaries. I just had the 40th of this one and the 25th of that one,' he said. 'It's like, there's a weird thing that happens in one's life, I think, as time moves on.' In his latest project, about murdered Georgia bounty hunter Hub Halloran who's been resurrected by the devil to destroy demons and send them back to hell, Bacon also plays a father to a teen son (Maxwell Jenkins) and ex-husband to Maryanne, played by country music singer Jennifer Nettles. The man who orchestrated his killing (Damon Herriman) is now dating his ex and wants him out of the picture by any means necessary. Killing demons in a variety of gory ways meant that Bacon, who is also an executive producer on the show, performed many of his own stunts — some he literally dove into. 'Battling the demon cheerleader underwater is like, it's one of those moments where you go, 'God, I got the coolest gig in the world. This is so fun and weird and hard and physical and cold,'' Bacon said, referring to one of his fight scenes. 'But at the end of the day, that feeling that between the woman playing the cheerleader and our underwater camera crew and our regular crew and our directors and our stunt people, you go like, 'Yeah, we did something unusual today.'' Music also plays a pivotal role in the series. In addition to killing demons, which becomes a family affair with Hub's mother (Beth Grant) along with his ex-wife and son, the bounty hunter also writes and performs songs with Maryanne. Bacon himself is one-half of folk-rock duo the Bacon Brothers with his brother, Michael. Nettles told Yahoo Entertainment that collaborating with the multi-hyphenate on the show's music was a big thrill for her. 'It was very natural. It was very easy. He is a fantastic writer,' Nettles said of working with her co-star. 'He is an amazing lyricist, storyteller and musician. And we really had a very natural and immediate flow with each other.' While Nettles typically doesn't opt for 'slasher stuff,' she said being a part of those scenes in The Bondsman made for some of her favorite moments on set. 'Whenever there's blood and gore and everything all over all of us, as actors, obviously, that's a big part of the show,' Nettles said. 'So people are walking around looking crazy half the time. That's very, very fun.' With scenes featuring squished heads and slit throats held together by duct tape, Bacon said it's all part of the show's mix of horror and comedy. 'The gore is so over the top that it kind of leans into the humor of what we're trying to do,' he said. 'That's just the tone of this show, which is just fun.' All eight episodes of are available to stream April 3 on Prime Video.
