Kevin Bacon Celebrates 65th Birthday With Family
By Movieguide® Contributor
Kevin Bacon turned 65 this past weekend and he celebrated with his wife Kyra Sedgwick.
Bacon shared a photo of him and his favorite dessert on his birthday and wrote, “Anyone who knows me, knows I’m not a fan of my birthday. My wife has made this a beautiful day. She has said recently our marriage is like roast chicken, so she made a perfect chicken for dinner followed by my favorite— buckwheat banana bread with chocolate icing. Perfect day.”
His daughter, Sosie Bacon, then responded with, “Our love is like a roast chicken – better crusted in salt.”
In a previous post Bacon shared on his Instagram he was seen walking on a farm with his wife while ‘Killing Me Softly with His Song’ sung by the Fugees and Ms. Lauryn Hill played int eh background.
He wrote, “Walking into 65 ?”.
One of Bacon’s most iconic films of his career is FOOTLOOSE. In the film Bacon portrays Ren McCormack as the new kid on the block.
In 2013, Bacon was featured on “The Howard Stern Show” where he said, “I was really resistant to the whole ‘Footloose’ thing, because I was an idiot. I was young, and I thought, ‘I’m not gonna be thought of as a serious actor. I wanted to be [Robert] De Niro and [Al] Pacino, I didn’t want to be the guy from ‘Footloose.’”
Now, the 80s classic is old enough for a reboot which stars Julianne Hough, Miles Teller, Kenny Wormald, and Dennis Quaid.
“You kind of wake up and in the morning and go ‘really? I’m old enough to have a remake done already?’ But I wish them the best. I hear it’s great. I think he’s [Craig Brewer] a great director, so I’m looking forward to it,” Fox News Digital reported of Bacon in 2011 on “The Rosie Show.”
However, in 2014 it seemed that Bacon fully embraced his role in FOOTLOOSE as he recreated what he called the “angry warehouse dance” scene as his entrance on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.”
“My idea was much simpler. I thought it would be fun to do something for ‘Footloose,’ but I thought that maybe I would be teaching you how to dance, a la ‘Let’s Hear It For the Boy,'” he explained when he returned to the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in February 2015. “When I got the pitch back from you guys, it was like angry warehouse dance and I thought, ‘Oh no, I can’t do the angry warehouse dance, that’s just too much. It was so elaborate, but your team was so great that I just kind of plugged into it.”
“The night before at about two o’clock in the morning, and I’m standing in my kitchen, and I’m trying to remember some of these moves, and I’d seen the thing that you had put together, and I had to go and rent ‘Footloose’ on Netflix, because I didn’t have the movie,” he said before he re-enacted himself trying to remember the dance.
Recently his daughter, Sosie, has decided to continue the family legacy to become an actress. In 2017 Bacon told Closer that they share a “new line of communication,” which they both enjoy.
“We can talk about acting and the industry, and it’s really fun,” Bacon explained.
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