The actor gets footloose recalling his most memorable genre roles.
You name it, there’s a very good chanceKevin Baconhas done it.
“It is a genre that I really like,” says Bacon.
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“I like moves that have life or death stakes.
I really have always loved things likeDont Look NowandRosemarys BabyandThe ShiningandThe Exorcistand on and on and on.”
It ended up exploding.
I dont know how many they made.
So, they built a fake neck and chest and then it was my face.
I got under the bed, and they lit it, and they applied the makeup.
I mean, it was a really long time in a tortuous kind of position.
They also said, “Just know we only have one of these necks.”
So, there really was no take two.
As a result, the blood has a weird kind of trajectory.
Me, with blood coming out of my mouth and an arrow through my neck.
You know, Im a pretty easygoing guy.
After a while, it just gets to you.
Youre like, really, do I have to sign another picture of me dead?
FLATLINERS(1990)
KB:It has a production style that is definitely of its time.
Joel Schumacher started dressing windows and then became a production designer and then made his way to directing.
So, we were using a lot of what we call atmosphere, lot of smoke.
We had a lot of laughs making that movie.
Sometimes we felt like we were a bunch of naughty kids.
I personally feel like the movie definitely holds up.
I thought Dave directed the s— out of it.
HOLLOW MAN(2000)
KB:It was really really challenging.
Paul and the effects people were really experimenting with motion control cameras and motion control capture.
It was long and extremely hard to make.
And, uh, yeah, it was a tough one!
David said, “Dont even show it to me, I dont want to see it!”
[Laughs] Eventually he read it.
We saw that house, I guess, online at first.
Id never been to Wales.
They were using them as our dressing rooms and as the base camp for the unit.
The quiet and the darkness Ive been in the woods before but this was something Id never really experienced.
You Should Have Leftis released on demand Thursday.
