Kevin Bacon is looking back on Footloose, almost 40 years after it was first released. In a new interview with Today, the 64-year-old actor recalled his time filming the movie and how the movie has been received by fans to this day. Click inside to read more… Speaking with Willie Geist on the program, Kevin said that he loves it when he hears that the movie is still gaining fans and how it resonated with them. “I love it,” he shared. “I think it’s great.
It’s like all of those things that you think ‘Oh, my gosh, is it ever going to go away?’ At a certain point, you have to embrace the beast.” Kevin added that “it was a great gift to be part of that movie.
I certainly took it very seriously when I was doing it and I love that people will still come up and say that they just showed it to their kids.” He also said that he thinks that the Broadway musical was a reason that Footloose is still popular today. “After the Broadway show (ended) its run, it then becomes available to be done in every single high school,” he shared. “And there’s not that many plays, certainly musicals, where you can have a musical and a bunch of high school kids in it.” Just a few weeks ago, Kevin recruited his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, in taking part in the “Footloose Drop” challenge that went viral on TikTok.
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