Kevin Bacon Tried To Disguise Himself As A Regular Person For A Day, And The Outcome Is Hilarious
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Kevin Bacon tried to be average for a day, but it didn't play out how he expected.
I first fell in love with Kevin's acting after watching The River Wild (1994) with my family and then secretly watching Wild Things (1998) without my family a few years later.
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Almost everybody recognizes Kevin from at least one movie or can famously link him to another person using six degrees or less.
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In an interview with Vanity Fair, Kevin revealed how he tried to live out his fantasy of being a non-famous person, and the result is hilarious.
He was confident that no disguise would keep people from recognizing his famous face.
"I went to a special effects makeup artist, had consultations, and asked him to make me a prosthetic disguise," Kevin explained.
Kevin's prosthetic disguise consisted of fake teeth, a prosthetic nose, glasses, and an outfit that resembled his character in MaXXXine, the final installment in Ti West's horror trilogy that also includes 2022's X and Pearl.
He chose to test out his new disguise at The Grove, a heavily populated outdoor shopping mall in Los Angeles. FYI: It's about nine minutes from Hollywood.
"Nobody recognized me," Kevin said.
Living out his fantasy was different from what he expected.
"People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice," he said.
"Nobody said, 'I love you.'" He continued. "I had to wait in line to, I don't know, buy a fucking coffee or whatever."
In the end, Kevin was not about the simple life.
"I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous."
Nobody recogizing him is wildly funny, considering that Kevin Bacon is one of the most famous actors with a career dating back to the '70s.
Kevin also played an invisible man in Hollow Man, but it's not so much fun in real life — is it?
As a Los Angeles resident, I seem to run into someone who looks like Kevin Bacon daily, so I don't blame The Grove patrons for ignoring him. But how did they not recognize his voice?
Read the full interview here.
