Everybody loves the smell of Kevin Bacon in the morning – or at any point during the day or night. Hollywood’s enduringly boyish 64-year-old actor/dancer/mobile phone network salesman shot to fame in 1984’s Footloose, after smaller roles in Animal House, Friday the 13th and Diner.
It was a breakthrough that hobbled – until he learned not to accept any role pitched as perfect for him (clean-cut, friendly, wholesome, twinkle-toed). Cue a career of shifty and charming brilliance, from the salty sex worker in Oliver Stone’s JFK to the smug attorney in A Few Good Men to the stricken paedophile in The Woodsman.
He’s done classy: The Big Picture, Mystic River, Apollo 13, I Love Dick. He’s done trashy: Tremors, The River Wild, Hollow Man, Wild Things. He’s done tentpole (X-Men: First Class) and he’s done telly (The Following, Taking Chance, City on a Hill).
Indeed, he’s done so much he’s spawned the parlour game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, which challenges you to link almost any celebrity to the actor with one of the most varied – and prolific – resumes around.
He’s also been married, to the actor Kyra Sedgwick, for more than 30 years, and fronted perhaps the most winning series of mobile phone provider ads (for EE) for 10 of them.
So, here’s your chance to put Bacon under the grill and toss us your best questions. Post them in the comments below by 4pm on Thursday 11 August.
