The Independent - London, August 24th, 2007
Although he starred in the musical Footloose, Kevin Bacon has made a career of less than cheery parts. By LESLEY O'TOOLE
It was Footloose, the 1984 American musical about a young dancer fighting the local minister's rock'n'roll ban, that made Kevin Bacon, until then an actor who took himself very seriously indeed, an instant heart-throb. "I was 26 and suddenly I was a pop star," Bacon recalls. "That's exactly what I wanted as a kid. But by then, that was so not what I wanted."
It took Bacon seven years to shake that image and cultivate the one he really craved, as a serious character actor. ...
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