How ‘Footloose’ co-stars Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer really met — and pulled off their steamy first kiss
nypost.com“Footloose” star Lori Singer still remembers her first meeting and famous kiss scene with Kevin Bacon — 40 years after making the 1984 hit film. “What happened is they had a long lens.
It was probably 12 feet, if there is such a thing as a lens like that. And they were way far away from us, like a football stadium away,” Singer, 66, told The Post. “Kevin and I had total privacy [for the kiss].
We just lived the scene the best way that we knew how. And, with all of our emotions and feelings from everything that had happened, that genuinely was the first time we kissed.” Directed by Herbert Ross, “Footloose” followed Ren McCormack (Bacon), a Chicago teen who moved to a small town where the local minister (John Lithgow) put a ban on dancing.
Singer co-starred as Ariel Moore, the minister’s rebellious daughter who was Ren’s love interest. “They have tremendous sound stages at Paramount.
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