Kevin Bacon Opens Up About Fleeing ‘Footloose’ Fame to Stay as a ‘Lonely Farmer’ within the ’80s

Though he’s a metropolis slicker now, in his thoughts, Kevin Bacon was meant for the nation life. 

Throughout the Wednesday, April 2 episode of the online collection Legendary Kitchen, the actor, 66, defined to host, Josh Scherer (also called Legendary Chef Josh on the present) why he needed to reside alone on a farm with a canine after the discharge of the 1984 movie Footloose catapulted him to fame.

“I feel I had gone by way of the depth of Footloose, and exploding onto a form of nationwide form of stardom, after which attempting to take care of that,” he says, including that it felt like “zero to 60.” 

Between the general public publicity, frequent journey and being in a romantic relationship he says was nearing its finish, the Philadelphia native discovered himself craving solitude.

“I simply thought to myself, ‘I am going to simply be a man with a canine and reside alone. I do not want something. I do not want anyone,’” he recollects. He went on to reference The Gatlin Brothers’ 2007 tune “Chop Wooden and Carry Water,” and says, “It would sound corny… however I prefer to be on the market, chopping wooden.” 

He continued dwelling his nation life in western Connecticut when he met and later married his spouse of 37 years, Kyra Sedgwick. However she wasn’t completely on board together with his rural fantasy.

The couple have been dwelling in a “funky, small, rundown farmhouse,” he says. “For some time, fairly just a few years truly, she type of folded into that, and we form of turned that collectively. And we lived on this little place, and I chopped the wooden, and once we weren’t working, she introduced a canine into the combination. So it was us — and [our dogs] Jane and Tybalt.” 

Nevertheless, after just a few years, the Brooklyn 9-9 alum was over the farm life. “She mentioned, ‘That is horrible. I wish to exit to lunch. I wish to go to the films or the theater. I wish to store within the Village,’” Bacon recollects. 

The actor, who shares two youngsters with Sedgwick — Travis, 35, and Sosa, 33 — explains that as a local New Yorker — born and raised in Manhattan — the countryside life was not going to work for Sedgwick. The choice about the place to reside was “the most important struggle we’ve ever had in our lives,” he reveals.

Sedgwick was adamant about taking Travis, who was six on the time, out of college, shifting again to New York and into an house the place they might all reside. Bacon admits that in this time — “post-Footloose, pre-Tremors,” Scherer clarifies — their monetary state of affairs was not supreme for such a pricey transfer, nevertheless, the couple made it work.  

“It was the best factor we ever did,” Bacon confesses in hindsight. “She was so proper. Elevating children in Manhattan was the very best concept.” 

He goes on so as to add, “I did get work. All these items that I used to be afraid of not taking place, occurred — and he or she was proper. You already know, proper once more.” 

Tune in to the complete episode of “Final Meals” with Kevin Bacon on Legendary Kitchen’s YouTube channel on Thursday, April 3, at 6:00 AM ET.