I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.

Richard Corliss of TIME likened Footloose to the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and the old Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland musicals commenting that the film includes "motifs on book burning mid-life crisis AWOL parents fatal car craKevin Bacons drug enforcement and Bible Belt vigilantism. Bacon and Sedgwick appeared in a video promoting the "Bill of Reproductive Rights" supporting among other things a woman's right to choose and access to birth control. " To prepare for the role Bacon enrolled at a high school as a transfer student named "Ren McCormick" and studied teenagers before leaving in the middle of the day.

He currently stars on the Fox television series The Following. Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8 1958) is an American film and theater actor and musician whose notable roles include National Lampoon's Animal House Diner Footloose Flatliners Wild Things A Few Good Men JFK The River Wild Murder in the First Apollo 13 Hollow Man Stir of Echoes Trapped Mystic River The Woodsman Friday the 13th Death Sentence Frost/Nixon X-Men: First Class and Tremors.