Kevin Bacon rejects fame gained from ‘Footlose’: ‘I wanted to work with Scorsese’

Kevin Bacon admitted that Footlose (1984) took his career in a different direction than he had intended. In a podcast interview Podcrushed (via Variety), the actor stated that he did not know he was auditioning for a “dance film” when he auditioned for the role of Ren McCormack.

“When I made this film, I wasn’t a dancer. I wasn’t trained as a dancer. To be honest, I didn’t even understand it was a dance film,” he confessed Bacon. “They said something about a choreographer and I said, ‘You guys don’t really need a choreographer. I’ll just go out there and dance. It’s no big deal. Just put on the music for me and I’ll jump around.’ So I was definitely not trained.”

The feature film about young people who live in a city where music and dancing are prohibited became a huge success, worthy of a remake. “When I became a pop star, the last thing I wanted was to be a pop star,” the actor revealed.

I had already changed to, ‘I want to be Dustin Hoffman or Meryl or John Cazale or De Niro. I wanted to work with Scorsese. I want to do Chekhov.’ You understand what I want to say? I was so focused on my idea of ​​being a serious actor, and suddenly I was given something that wasn’t a serious actor. So I totally rejected that. I tried to self-sabotage that part of myself and my popularity.

“I was very, very uncomfortable with photo shoots and magazines, and all these things that I dreamed about when I was a kid,” he said. Kevin. Although it has not yet been directed by Martin Scorsesehe was in films by Oliver Stone, Ron Howard It is Clint Eastwood.