let’s hear it Kevin Bacon — Because dancing The alum returned to the film’s actual high school 40 years later in time for prom.
Bacon’s performance as Ren McCormack in the 1984 box office smash, after nearly 50 years in Hollywood dancing Has not been forgotten. Exhibit A: Payson High School students are passionately campaigning to get her back in the building where she actually filmed her final prom before the school transferred. On Saturday, that wish came true when Bacon stepped onto campus for the first time in 40 years, perfectly timed to coincide with the film musical’s milestone anniversary in February.
During his visit, Bacon, 65, walked the halls where he performed the famous dance in the film, opened the locker used as his character, stood in the cafeteria, and met students who had been looking forward to his visit. Were waiting.
“Things are looking a little different here,” he said during a speech addressing all the students gathered for his tour. “I would say the thing that stands out is me.”
As part of his visit, Bacon, Payson High School students and Payson community members worked with Bacon’s non-profit organization, sixdegrees.organd assembled and distributed 5,000 essential resource kits to youth and families in surrounding states.
If one thing became clear from Bacon’s journey, it is this. dancing The actor remains an integral part of the story.
“Forty years. It’s one of those movies. It changed my life,” Bacon had earlier told ET, “To say nothing else would be true. I was working and I knew I’d be an actor for a long time, but I thought of being a character actor – which I am – but it changed people’s psyche for that moment. took over and my life changed.”
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