Actor Kevin Bacon has discovered that being “regular person” is a lot harder than he thought it was.
The 65-year-old, who has had a 47-year-long career, shared with Vanity Fair that he has always had a fantasy of spending the day as a non-celebrity.
But he felt that his face was too unique to just walk around with any old disguise. “I’m not complaining, but I have a face that’s pretty recognisable,” he told the outlet. “Putting my hat and glasses on is only going to work to a certain extent.”
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One day, he realised he could make it a reality – ironically, with a bit of movie magic.
Bacon decided to go the extra mile and hire “a special effects makeup artist, had consultations, and asked him to make me a prosthetic disguise”, in a plot straight out of a zany movie.
With his fake teeth, a new nose, and glasses in tow, the Footloose star headed off to LA tourist hotspot, an outdoor mall called The Grove for a taste of the simple life.
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He found that the disguise worked well – a bit too well, with the actor not liking the taste of his own medicine.
“Nobody recognised me”, he realised after experiencing the wake-up call.
“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.
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“I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous.”
It’s not the first time the thought has crossed the A Few Good Men star’s mind.
Bacon grew up as the son of hotshot Philadelphia urban planner Edmund Bacon, giving him a taste of fame at an early age.
“I saw him get recognised by people when he would walk down the street and seeing that was definitely a big driving force in my life. Frankly, I wanted to be more famous than him. And you can lay me down on the shrink’s couch. We could talk about that for a while. But it was definitely a motivator,” he said.
Luckily for him, his parents encouraged his and his sibling’s artistic pursuits, leading to his prolific on screen career spanning across a number of genres and almost five decades.
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