Asked about Footloose, musician Travis Bacon, 37, could offer this much about the film that made his father Kevin Bacon a star: “Something about dancing in a town?” He hasn’t seen it, he revealed while appearing with his sister, actress Sosie Bacon, 34, on the Nepo, Baby! podcast.
Released in 1984, Footloose gave Kevin his breakout leading role as Ren McCormack, a Chicago teenager who moves to a town that’s banned rock music and dancing after a fatal car crash. John Lithgow plays the local minister behind the ban. Ren and his classmates challenge the town council so they can hold a senior prom.
Travis was much more enthusiastic about his dad’s 2007 thriller Death Sentence. “I remember actually being like really hyped to see that and really excited,” he told hosts Jake Robards and Emily Wachtel. “You know, like, ‘Wow, that’s tight.’ That’s a movie I would watch anyway and now it’s my pops with the shotgun and doing the thing.”
His interest in Kevin’s work extends to music, too. As Travis put it: “I definitely was always interested in the music stuff my pops was doing.”