https://deadline.com/2024/07/kevin-bacon-dons-elaborate-disguise-life-as-non-famous-person-1236001625/amp/
Kevin Bacon recently experienced life as a non-famous person, donning an elaborate disguise to see what life would be like in public.
When he tested the look at outdoor Los Angeles shopping mall The Grove, “Nobody recognized me,” Bacon said. But the tide evidently soon turned. “People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice. Nobody said, ‘I love you.’ I had to wait in line to, I don’t know, buy a f***ing coffee or whatever. I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous.”
Lmao this has to be a joke. Is this really what life is like for these people? No one said "I love you" to a stranger at the mall? He had to wait in lines? Maybe the most eye-opening thing about this is that Kevin seemed to expect to be treated more or less the same way he is as a celebrity, just without the selfies, which says to me that he thought everyone gets treated the same way famous people do. Sometimes it's interesting to get a reminder of how out of touch these people really are.
Just curious, how’s it obvious? We supposed to Google his movie release schedule…? Text him to see what’s going on…?
What’s obvious to you because you have nothing better to read than media news all day is actually not obvious to 99.99% of other people.
Who would have fucking thought…………
Did you somehow forget how seriously out of touch all the celebrities were during covid? Because going off of previous precedence… yeah they are seriously out of touch and this is exactly how a lot would be expected to act…
So… how’s is it obvious…? Lmfao.
The quoted statements from Kevin Bacon are obviously sarcastic… or do you not understand sarcasm…? Maybe if… he used more ellipses…?
Did you somehow forget how seriously out of touch all the celebrities were during covid? Because going off of previous precedence…
Is it sarcastic? Or is he just being out of touch like 99% of other celebrities… its obviously that, how’s it obviously sarcasm…?
Yes it’s sarcastic, you’ve got to be fucking kidding me bro. I don’t even really understand why this was recycled at the beginning of the Vanity Fair interview, which the OP didn’t link straight to for some unknown reason, because it’s from an interview he did on a talk show back in TWENTY FUCKING SEVENTEEN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbp2EZRyHAk
I found that after not even 15 seconds on google. Like I typed in “Kevin Bacon disguise interview”, did two top to bottom screen swipes, and saw the YouTube thumbnail. You have no excuse for acting this indignant about shit when information is as easy to look up as it is in 2024.
Also bro quoting yourself comes across as a tad unhinged.
I shouldn’t have to do research if something is obvious……..
During covid, they were out of touch so obviously it can’t be anything else. If you research that, you would find evidence of this as well.
Neither is obvious to someone with knowledge of either, but celebrities were forcing it down everyone’s throats during covid. So hard to plead ignorance here…
And yeah, I quoted an obviously missed paragraph by a person who responded to me. I should have done it here again for you, since you apparently missed it again as well. Not going to address it… or what…?
Bro who the fuck is “them”? We’re talking about a single person here, I don’t give a flying shit what other people did during Covid. Just so you know, this isn’t fucking debate club, I don’t have to respond to idiotic shit. What you posted and quoted yourself saying is absolute lunatic shit. I had nothing nice to say about it, so I didn’t.
The sarcasm was obvious. You didn’t get the sarcasm regardless. You could have tried to get some context for like a half second before flying off half cocked about who knows what the fuck.
Neither is obvious to someone with knowledge of either, but celebrities were forcing it down everyone’s throats during covid. So hard to plead ignorance here…
Bro I hope English isn’t your first language. If it is I hope you’re actively being driven to the hospital right now because that’s some stroke level shit right there.
Also seriously what is with people using ellipses like this always having the most brain-dead, straight up lobotomized takes on shit?
Do you think a mega star like him could just go back to be a nobody after all this time? You are delusional. This might be a joke, but that doesn't mean it's not true. Imagine for the past 30 years of your life wherever you go, people give you gifts, agree with everything you say, ara always super nice to you. Every woman you ever met was weirdly immediately in love with you, you don't even know the value of money anymore since you filthy rich and or never have to buy stuff.
These fuckers couldn't be not famous for a week.
You could also read the article the headline is referencing. No need to Google anything.
Where can I find that information in the linked article? It mentions nothing of Bacons future plans or why he did the stunt.
If you want to try to claim someone didn’t read an article, atleast make sure the information wasn’t from another first or something dude……
Very first paragraph for starters.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, the Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F actor...
Second paragraph:
Bacon, who is also currently starring in Ti West’s horror pic MaXXXine...
A short read further:
“I honestly feel very grateful for where I happen to be. That I can have two totally different movies coming out within a couple of days of each other, and completely different roles.
Come on, man. Are you intentionally being ridiculous?
Very first paragraph for starters.
Old movies….
Second paragraph
This was supposed to obvious about upcoming stuff, what’s relevant about current projects….?
A short read further:
Th is paragraph more reads past tense, how does this say he has new movies coming out without prior knowledge…?
I read the article, clearly you didn’t and are conflating articles or are bringing prior knowledge it and making connections.
Its okay to be wrong….
Beverly Hill Cop: Axel F is a brand new movie and is a sequel to previous BHC movies.
That being said, I agree with you. Nothing about this article indicates that he was being humorous. If this were a video interview, there would be context. So if he was being a goof with a print interviewer, then that interviewer should have described him as such:
"He wasn't a fan of ordinary life. 'No one told me they loved me and I had to wait in line for coffee...it sucked!', he quipped tongue-in-cheek about the experience."
Something like that. Not indicating the attempt at humor just makes him sound like an asshole.
Plus, articles like this get run by a star's publicist before they are printed. I am surprised Kevin Bacon's PR person didn't pick up on this.
At least he was curious enough to step out of his bubble for a day and find out what it’s like. That’s better than the rest of them.
I didn't read that as "he didn't realize those things" but as "he didn't think he'd care as much as he did". Like, it's easy to say "I could go without X" but actually doing it is different. That's a universally true experience that seems more likely than "Kevin Bacon thought average people get to skip lines and have strangers say I love you"
It must be, if he doesn’t do it for others normally, or didn’t do it for others while he was disguised, the hell was he expecting?
Think about it in context of giving an interview. It's him giving an example of things that happen to him normally, not him having an expectation as a normy. It probably just made him realize how fortunate he is.
I’d say an inability to recognize sarcasm, leading someone to take statements obviously said with tongue firmly in cheek at face value, is also worse.
Oh... I once also tested a normcore look at The Grove!
Also, no one paid any attention to me.
All of you can't hear the WOOSH of the joke going over your head?
He's taking the piss here. He's fucking around, it's to drum up publicity for his movie.
My Kevin Bacon number is two. I know a guy who was an extra in tremors. I have no other achievements in life, so this will have to do.
Pretty sure dick shouldn’t smell like that. Maybe mention it so they can get a trip to planned parenthood, you know. Get it checked out.
Mine is 3 my brother was in an indi film with an actress who was in a movie with him. I'm pretty sure she was one of the three main characters in The craft I just can't remember her name.
Mine is also 3, multiple times. I worked in a bar that was used for film shoots a few times. I've met Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu, Bruce Willis, and Erica Durance, who all have a 2. I also went to school with someone who is a 2.
<joke> Perhaps <internet high five /> is a self-closing html5 tag and they omitted the slash as allowed by the spec </joke>
It might be allowed by the spec, but it still feels wrong. I’m sad XHTML didn’t reign supreme with its extremely picky parser.
Now I'm planning to only go out in the disguise of Kevin Bacon, so people love me and I get my coffee faster
I certainly hope that now he, as Kevin Bacon, walks around telling strangers he loves them. Since now he knows how much it sucks to be a nobody.
Except he left the real world again immediately and went back to being treated like he was Homo Superior. Oh well.
Per [Vanity Fair], he was outfitted with fake teeth, a slightly different nose and glasses. When he tested the look at outdoor Los Angeles shopping mall The Grove, “Nobody recognized me,” Bacon said. But the tide evidently soon turned. “People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice. Nobody said, ‘I love you.’ I had to wait in line to, I don’t know, buy a f***ing coffee or whatever. I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous,” he told VF.
The actor, who has been working steadily since the late 70s and became a megastar with 1984’s Footloose, also told VF, “I honestly feel very grateful for where I happen to be. That I can have two totally different movies coming out within a couple of days of each other, and completely different roles. The fact they would both come my way is the thing that I feel the most gratitude for. I’ve fought really long and hard for it.”
If you can't tell it's a joke and marketing for his two movies coming out, you're the tool.
I too once disguised to experience life as a Non-Famous Person, and it turned out to be exactly the same as my everyday life.
I live in Jackson, Wyoming. We have the highest per capita number of billionaires cosplaying at "normal guy" in the nation. It's a thing. They come up here, switch to their "mountain casual" clothes (bonus points if well worn), get in a ten year old Subaru and go to the bar and have a beer with "the locals". Maybe a trip to the Idaho side and hit Victor, Driggs, or Tetonia.
This is literally the episode of 30 Rock I watched yesterday. Season 3 episode 15 I think?
Season 4 episode 1, as well.
"Hey Tray, how's connecting with the common man going?"
"It's going super great, Dotcom. Meet my new friends, Nobody, and his wife, Susan Walters hyphen Nobody!"
Famous actor and musician: Footloose, Tremors, Frost/Nixon, Apollo 13, Mystic River, JFK, etc. He is a pretty prolific actor, but of course not everyone knows of every famous person out there. My favorite Kevin Bacon fact is the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon". It appears to show up right in the comment below this one. My Kevin Bacon number is 3. My father is friend's with a bandmate in his son's band.
You'd be surprised. You can probably get 6 degrees to someone like Kim Jung Un. Just about everyone is more closely connected to everyone else than you might think. The "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game was meant to demonstrate that.
White guys will cosplay as absolutely anyone to get the "real" experience but never bother just try talking to someone. Wanna know the black experience? Why go through the trouble of finding a black person and listening? Wanna see what it like to be a woman? Step in here with our stylist. Like, we could just listen to people. I'm pretty sure most of them would tell us. It seems way easier to than this.
I get your point, but there is something to be said about walking a mile in another man's shoe. Experiencing it yourself will always be more impactful.
People suck at reporting on their experiences. Like, good luck knowing what garlic bread is like without eating some. “Oh just ask someone who’s eaten garlic bread. White men never LiStEn”
Wanna know the black experience? Why go through the trouble of finding a black person and listening?
Because blackface will cause me new issues that I chose not to experience.
I actually agree with you, but I also don’t think it’s realistic to expect people to be “real” around a celebrity.
