While 1984’s Footloose holds a significant place in Kevin Bacon’s career, the actor didn’t enjoy the fame that followed the film’s success.Footloose turned Bacon into a teen icon, but he felt the label prevented him from being seen as a serious actor. “When I became a pop star, the last thing I wanted to be was a pop star,” he told the Podcrushed podcast (via Insider). “I had already moved into, ‘I want to be Dustin Hoffman or Meryl or John Cazale or De Niro. I want to work with Scorsese. I want to do Chekhov.’ You know what I mean? I was so into what my idea of a serious actor was, and all of a sudden, I was given this thing that was completely not a serious actor. So I rejected it, full-on on. I tried to self-sabotage that piece of myself and my popularity.”Bacon also admitted that he didn’t know Footloose was a dance movie when he joined the project. “When I did the dance movie, I was not a dancer. I wasn’t trained as a dancer. If I’m being honest, I didn’t even really understand that it was a dance movie,” he explained. “I thought it was just a movie, and then, where they would indicate that there was dancing, I would just get up. They said something about a choreographer, and I said, ‘You don’t really need a choreographer. I’ll just get up and dance. It’s not a big deal. Just play the record for me, and I’ll jump around.’ So I was definitely not trained by any stretch of the imagination.”RELATED: Why Rob Lowe Left Footloose in an Ambulance
While 1984’s Footloose holds a significant place in Kevin Bacon’s career, the actor didn’t enjoy the fame that followed the film’s success.
Footloose turned Bacon into a teen icon, but he felt the label prevented him from being seen as a serious actor. “When I became a pop star, the last thing I wanted to be was a pop star,” he told the Podcrushed podcast (via Insider). “I had already moved into, ‘I want to be Dustin Hoffman or Meryl or John Cazale or De Niro. I want to work with Scorsese. I want to do Chekhov.’ You know what I mean? I was so into what my idea of a serious actor was, and all of a sudden, I was given this thing that was completely not a serious actor. So I rejected it, full-on on. I tried to self-sabotage that piece of myself and my popularity.”
Bacon also admitted that he didn’t know Footloose was a dance movie when he joined the project. “When I did the dance movie, I was not a dancer. I wasn’t trained as a dancer. If I’m being honest, I didn’t even really understand that it was a dance movie,” he explained. “I thought it was just a movie, and then, where they would indicate that there was dancing, I would just get up. They said something about a choreographer, and I said, ‘You don’t really need a choreographer. I’ll just get up and dance. It’s not a big deal. Just play the record for me, and I’ll jump around.’ So I was definitely not trained by any stretch of the imagination.”
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