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# Bacon cooks up another memorable performance in ‘Truth’
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/bacon-cooks-up-another-memorable-performance-in-truth/
- Published: 2005-10-14T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:58:04.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By EMILY CHRISTIANSON Special to the Daily Press*

Kevin Bacon’s tombstone might read something like this: “No Oscars, but at least I have a game named after me.” That’s according to the Philadelphia native who still has a sense of humor about the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game.

Just don’t ask him about “Footloose.” “It makes me sad when somebody says, ‘Hey! “Footloose,’” and they sing the song or something,” he told Interview Magazine. “The movie was fantastically helpful to me and changed my life. But I’ve probably done 20 films since then. So it’s like, ‘Thanks a lot.’”

Bacon’s latest film, “Where the Truth Lies”, places the 47-year-old actor in a new entanglement — a ménage-a-trois with costars Colin Firth and Rachel Blanchard. The steamy scene even received an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America — although the film is now considered unrated.

“I didn’t really get (the rating),” Bacon admits. “I think that people will be disappointed if they’re going looking for some soft core porn and other people will be disappointed if they stay away because of the sex. They would really be staying away for the wrong reasons because it is really a murder mystery.”

The film, opening Oct. 14, follows 1950s entertainers Lanny (Bacon) and Vince (Firth) as the duo enjoys the power, wealth and women of showbiz. The team is torn apart when a dead beauty (Blanchard) turns up in their hotel suite. Questions about the girl’s death remain unanswered for years until a young reporter (Alison Lohman) decides to turn this cold case into her next big story.

Like his character, Bacon also is an entertainer. Bacon and his older brother Michael perform and record a mix of folk, rock, soul and country music as The Bacon Brothers.

“The first time I went on-stage with Michael, I was more scared than I’ve ever been in my life,” he told E! Online. “I was terrified. My knees were actually shaking. I believe you need a little fear in your creative life. I think it inspires you. I love making movies, but it’s comfortable for me — it’s like being in my living room. When I get on-stage, it’s like that old rock ’n roll drug; you can just feel the adrenaline flowing.”

Bacon, the youngest student to attend Circle in the Square Theater in New York, made his film debut 27 years ago as Chip Diller in “Animal House” and shot to stardom with “Footloose,” but the star admits that at one point he was just a regular Joe.

“When I was growing up I was chubby and greasy and had long hair and bad skin,” he told Interview Magazine. “I had a really hard time getting girls when I was a teenager. When I got to New York, it got a little bit easier because I lost weight and then they invented styling mousse. I had no career before styling mousse.”

Of course that was before he met his wife Kyra Sedgewick almost 20 years ago.

“He put a ring in the toe of a stocking,” Sedgewick told about.com of Bacon’s proposal. “On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking. He said, ‘Will you marry me?’ I thought, ‘What took you so long? We’ve been going out for 10 months already.’ (laughing) He said I took a long time to say ‘yes’ but it couldn’t have been more than 20 seconds.”

The couple now makes their home in New York with their two kids Travis, 16 and Sosie, 13\. Sedgewick recently became a full-time working mom as “The Closer” on TNT.

“It’s funny because you know (Kyra) used to never put a hat on or put the sunglasses on or anything like that … Now she is starting to feel like she has to, so things have changed in that way a little bit,” he said of his wife’s recent career move.

What about the kids? “We don’t live a sheltered kind of existence, we live out in the real world and they do as well,” he said.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 14, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/101405.pdf?ref=smdp.com)