Is being a “regular” person all it’s cracked up to be?
Actor Kevin Bacon decided to try out a day as a non-celebrity, and recounted his experience in a recent interview with Vanity Fair, to see if the “normal” grass is indeed greener.
“I’m not complaining, but I have a face that’s pretty recognizable,” Bacon, 65, said in the interview. “Putting my hat and glasses on is only going to work to a certain extent.”
The actor went to great lengths to go incognito, employing the help of a special effects artist, who fitted the “Footloose” star with fake teeth, a different nose, and eyewear, which he sported on a day of shopping in a section of Los Angeles usually packed with tourists.
The “X-Men First Class” star was surprised at his reaction to the anonymity craved by so many A-listers in Hollywood, who are constantly hounded by photographers, as he was so unrecognizable that he had to suffer the indignity of waiting his turn, unable to cut the line to get a coffee.
“I had to wait in line to, I don’t know, buy a f–king coffee or whatever,” he recalled. “People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice. Nobody said, ‘I love you.’ I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous.”
Kevin Bacon arrives at the Winter TCA Fox All-Star Party at the Langham Huntington Hotel on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)Matt Sayles/Invision/AP
ABOUT KEVIN BACON
Actor Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958, in Philadelphia, PA, and gained fame for his 1984 role in the musical drama, “Footloose.”
Since then, he has appeared in “A Few Good Men,” “Apollo 13,” “Mystic River,” “Hollow Man,” “The Woodsman,” and “Tremors.”
Bacon has received numerous awards and nominations throughout his career, including a Golden Globe for his role in 2009′s “Taking Chance,” a performance that earned him an Emmy nomination. He’s also achieved a Screen Actors Guild Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. When not acting, he belongs to a folk/rock/country band called the Bacon Brothers, with his brother Michael.
On the personal front, Bacon is married to actress Kyra Sedgwick since 1988, and they have two children. Bacon is active in various charitable causes and co-founded SixDegrees.org, a charitable initiative inspired by the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game to promote giving and social good.
Bacon’s upcoming projects include “MaXXXine,” a movie starring Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins and Giancarlo Esposito. Bacon is also set to star in the upcoming Amazon Prime Video original series “The Bondsman,” which will also star Jennifer Nettles, as well as the Michael J. Weithorn (”The King of Queens) movie “Connescence,” which stars Kyra Sedgwick.