I want to work with[Martin] Scorsese.
I want to do Chekhov.'
You know what I mean?"
Kevin Bacon in ‘Footloose’.Everett Collection
So I rejected it, full on.
Bacon recalled feeling uneasy back in the day about his newfound ’80s heartthrob status.
“Everything that I had dreamed of gave me a tremendous amount of self-doubt and anxiety.”
“They were saying, ‘Look, can you believe he can be connected by Meryl Streep?’
By the way, I think I had already worked with Meryl Streep, so it wasn’t even…
It’s just in my own head.”
Over time, Bacon realized the game wasn’t created to discredit his acting career and leaned into it.
“It’s just an idea.”
Listen to Bacon talk about hisFootloosefame in the podcast above.
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