Kevin Bacon Dons Elaborate Disguise To Experience Life As Non-Famous Person, Concludes “This Sucks”
Kevin Bacon Dons Elaborate Disguise To Experience Life As Non-Famous Person, Concludes “This Sucks”
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.
It's super obviously a joke, probably with a large dose of mareting stunt.
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.
Is that honestly what you think
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.
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.
https://oracleofbacon.org/ Mine is 4. But I live in Europe.
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.
Eyyy, I came here to say this! I acted with Christian Slater.
Now I'm planning to only go out in the disguise of Kevin Bacon, so people love me and I get my coffee faster
Lol, Roger did exactly this in American Dad! (S02E15, "Four Little Words")
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.
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.”
The guy is a complete tool.
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 dumb and pointless
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!"
Who is Kevin Bacon?
It's that guy who donned an elaborate disguise to experience life as a non-famous person.
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.
Ever seen Tremors? (the first one) X-men First Class? Footloose?
has he tried rubbing some bacon on it?
On his life?
No, on me!
On his life, just do it: rub some bacon on it.
Schlub Like Me
My bacon number is 2.
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.
This has nothing to do with anything you're talking about.
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”
It's 8am and I'm craving garlic bread now
But none of them will tell him: "did you know we have to wait in line for our coffee?"
Nobody says they love me during the day.
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.
