{"id":109784,"date":"2024-07-05T08:03:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T08:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/this-sucks-kevin-bacon-felt-invisible-when-he-went-out-in-disguise\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T08:03:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T08:03:45","slug":"this-sucks-kevin-bacon-felt-invisible-when-he-went-out-in-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/05\/this-sucks-kevin-bacon-felt-invisible-when-he-went-out-in-disguise\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This sucks&#8217;: Kevin Bacon felt invisible when he went out in disguise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-07-05\" datetime=\"1720166625\" pubdate=\"\">5 July 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/kevin-bacon\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,kevin-bacon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Bacon<\/a> realised life &#8220;sucks&#8221; without fame when he dressed up as a &#8220;regular person&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Kevin Bacon didn&#8217;t enjoy feeling invisible<\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old actor used to dream about being able to live his life without being recognised so he called in prosthetics experts to help him construct a new identity for himself &#8211; but he wasn&#8217;t particularly happy with what happened next.<\/p>\n<p>In a Vanity Fair article titled &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/kevin-bacon\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,kevin-bacon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Bacon<\/a> Spent a Day as a Regular Person&#8217;, he told the magazine: \u201cI\u2019m not complaining, but I have a face that\u2019s pretty recognisable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutting my hat and glasses on is only going to work to a certain extent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went to a special effects make-up artist, had consultations, and asked him to make me a prosthetic disguise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter being fitted with fake teeth, a new nose and glasses, the &#8216;MaXXXine&#8217; star &#8211; who has children Travis, 35, and Sosie, 32, with wife Kyra Sedgwick &#8211; headed to The Grove shopping mall in Los Angeles and he was initially thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: \u201cNobody recognised me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nBut Kevin quickly regretted his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: \u201cPeople were kind of pushing past me, not being nice.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Nobody said, \u2018I love you.\u2019 I had to wait in line to, I don\u2019t know, buy a f****** coffee or whatever. I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe &#8216;Footloose&#8217; actor admitted he always wanted to be fame after seeing his dad &#8211; an important urban planner in Philadelphia &#8211; regularly getting recognised out in public.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;In terms of giving credit to my parents, and course I give all the credit to them, my mother was very much on the artistic side and really encouraged acting. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;My brother was a musician, but in general, amongst the six of us [children], they both encouraged as much creativity as possible in everything\u2014dance, music, theatre, painting, sculpture, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;My father was famous in Philadelphia, which in some ways is a small pond, but for me it was a big pond. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I saw him get recognised by people when he would walk down the street and seeing that was definitely a big driving force in my life. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Frankly, I wanted to be more famous than him. And you can lay me down on the shrink\u2019s couch. We could talk about that for a while. But it was definitely a motivator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/sucks-kevin-bacon-felt-invisible-went-disguise-1402449.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 July 2024 Kevin Bacon realised life &#8220;sucks&#8221; without fame when he dressed up as a &#8220;regular person&#8221;. Kevin Bacon didn&#8217;t enjoy feeling invisible The 65-year-old actor used to dream about being able to live his life without being recognised so he called in prosthetics experts to help him construct a new identity for himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1269,1268],"class_list":{"0":"post-109784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-kevin-bacon","9":"tag-kyra-sedgwick"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}