- Kevin Bacon tells PEOPLE he has no plans to “decelerate” his profession anytime quickly
- The Bondsman star shares “the enterprise made the choice for me to turn into a personality actor versus a number one man,” however the roles he is “provided are by no means precisely the identical”
- “There’s so many issues that I nonetheless need to do as an actor, as a musician, as a author,” he says
Kevin Bacon has constructed up a powerful performing résumé all through his lengthy profession.
Since making his function movie debut in 1978’s Nationwide Lampoon’s Animal Home, the 66-year-old actor has gone on to turn into a family identify. His credit now embrace Footloose, Friday the thirteenth, Apollo, The Following, Tremors and Loopy, Silly, Love. His efforts as Michael Strobl in Taking Probability allowed him to turn into a Golden Globe Award and Display screen Actors Guild Award winner.
On prime of that, he has been making music as a part of The Bacon Brothers alongside brother Michael because the ’90s.
As his “enjoyable” new challenge, Prime Video’s action-horror collection The Bondsman, is now streaming, Bacon tells PEOPLE completely of what is subsequent for his profession: “No decelerate for me!”
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“It is humorous as a result of I really feel like lots of people, clearly, who’re my age are pleased to cease, decelerate or play golf or no matter. I feel I am extra, to a fault possibly, I am simply extra pushed than ever,” he says. “There’s so many issues that I nonetheless need to do as an actor, as a musician, as a author. Not as a author, however a songwriter. As a director, no. I’ve no plans to decelerate.”
“What’s subsequent? I do not know. Shockingly, I’ve hung in there lengthy sufficient that I’m at all times amazed that I nonetheless get provided issues,” he continues. “It is simply one thing I by no means take as a right. And the alternatives are there. They have been coming. They appear to proceed to come back.”
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Even with all his success, Bacon, curiously sufficient, would not see himself as a number one man at this stage of his profession.
“What I really feel so grateful about, apart from simply with the ability to make a residing as an actor, is that the alternatives that I get as a result of I’ve made, or the enterprise made the choice for me to turn into a personality actor versus a number one man,” he shares.
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“Properly, I do generally [lead projects], however I feel that I do not simply try this. And because of this, if I have a look at the 2 characters simply which might be within the can between MaXXXine and Beverly Hills Cop, these are two males that would not be extra totally different,” he continues. “They’re fully totally different characters and fully totally different tones when it comes to the film and the form of film that they’re. And I received an opportunity to do each of them and have them each come out in the identical 12 months. In order that makes me really feel very, very grateful.”
Although he’s now main his new collection, The Bondsman, Bacon nonetheless has a spot in his coronary heart for being a personality actor, which he feels gives him extra flexibility in what he is capable of do. “It does, as a result of I at all times needed that. It is one thing that I labored my complete life for. And the issues that I am provided are by no means precisely the identical,” he provides.
The Bondsman season 1 is now streaming on Prime Video.
