Kevin Bacon told ET the last time he attended the Academy Awards was four decades ago.
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At the time, Bacon attended the Oscars not only as an invited guest but as presenter, handing out the award for Best Sound Effects Editing to Jay Boekelheide for, Bacon starred as Ren McCormack, a transplant from Chicago who moves to a small, rural town only to discover the municipality has a strict ban on dancing, which was put in place by a local minister. ahead of its 40th anniversary.
"40 years. That's one of those movies. It did change my life," he said."To say nothing else would not be true. I was working and I knew I'd be an actor for the long haul, but I thought a character actor -- which I am -- but this took over people's psyche for that moment and my life switched." remains the movie that people approach him over."I've done a lot of work since then, but that's what people come up and talk to me about," he noted.
"I loved the movie when it came out, you know, I don't remember exactly where I saw it -- it was probably, I'm sure that I paid money for it, it was a big deal," he said of seeing the December 1984 release for the first time."I sat there with strangers in the dark and my popcorn." Despite his love for the franchise and Murphy, 63, Bacon said he had very little overlap with the actor until now.
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