Kevin Bacon On Why He Once Went Deeply Undercover And Hated It

Not being famous sucks, or so Kevin Bacon says. Forget Maroon 5 singing “fame is a lie,” or Sia telling us how “fame won’t love you like a mother, like a father should,” Bacon lived a non-famous life for a day and hated it!

After being a star for several years, Bacon decided to try the regular guy life for a day and it was not as cool as he thought it was going to be. In fact it was quite the opposite.

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When you’re an A-list actor, there’s not really much that’ll bother you, unless of course, sneaking a peek on what life’s like on the other side of the fence.

In a new interview with Varnity Fair, the actor, 65, opened up about the lengths he went to just to live like the rest of us for a day. And no, he didn’t just pop on some glasses and swagger out the door.

“I’m not complaining, but I have a face that’s pretty recognizable,” Bacon said during the interview. “Putting my hat and glasses on is only going to work to a certain extent.”

He actually planned the whole thing on a professional level to make sure he’s completely unrecognizable. “I went to a special effects makeup artist, had consultations, and asked him to make me a prosthetic disguise,” he shared.

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He went to great lengths adding fake teeth, prosthetic nose and the eyeglass for effects.
In his full disguise, he headed off to the Los Angeles tourist hotspot The Grove to do some low-key shopping.

You would have thought he’d have been happy when his disguise worked as well as he wanted it to work, but he wasn’t.

“Nobody recognized me. People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice. Nobody said, ‘I love you,’” Bacon said. Yeah Bacon that’s what happens when you’re not a star.

“I had to wait in line to, I don’t know, buy a f–king coffee or whatever,” he moaned. “I was like, ‘This sucks. I want to go back to being famous.’” Luckily, it’s something he can actually do. So woohoo for him.

Bacon has been a household name since appearing in his breakout role in “Footloose” at the age of 26.

Since then he’s managed to hold onto a prolific and successful career, so much so he now has a game show based around his life and acting career.

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