Kevin Bacon has a good time with “The Bondman”

Kevin Bacon certainly knows one thing or two about the capture of hell.

In “Footloose”, the 1984 film which catapulted him into celebrity, Bacon played a young rebel of Chicago named Ren who moves in a small town and comes up against a strict religious leader who prohibited dance and rock music.

In “Le Bondman“, Now in streaming on Prime Video, Hub Halloran, his last character, has a different dilemma. The crisp bonuse hunter was murdered during an attempted bust, but has resurrected by Satan and gave a new mission: to find demons that escaped hell.

Bacon has a good time playing it. It was sold after the horror magnate Jason Blum, who is an executive producer, sent him the pilot script flavored with generous doses of blood, dark humor southern and coarse.

“As soon as I read it, I sent him a text and I said” I am “,” said Bacon in a video interview last week in New York. “The voice and tone of this world were something that I felt was unusual and that I had never seen before.”

The veteran actor has seen a lot during his career several decades as one of the most respected and prolific actors in Hollywood. His voluminous curriculum vitae extends over cinematographic touch stones (“some good men”, “JFK”, “Apollo 13”), cult favorites (“Wild Things”), Comedies (“Diner”, “Crazy Stupid Love”) and horror (“Maxxxine“” Flatliners “and the” Friday 13 “).

The series is the last indication that, although it closes on the Big 7-0, the 66-year-old bacon does not slow down so early. In addition to “The Bondman” and a list of future efforts, there is His Instagram where his 4.5 million followers catch spiritual musical clips of him and his actor, Kyra Sedgwickand other family members.

A recent coil showed Bacon and Sedgwick while enjoying a night in the city in Manhattan. “Ok, so why are we here?” Ask Sedgewick. Bacon replies: “Ok, I know most of the time, it's about me, me, me. But here we are in Times Square, it's the evening of the evening, we are going to go to the theater. So, darling, this evening, everything is about you.” The camera then zooms in on a massive display panel promoting “the obligation”.

Over the decades, his relentless training has continuously propelled him to new summits. When he was asked how he would define his career at this stage, Bacon has grimacted a little, saying that it is not something he does too often.

“I just try to put one foot in front of the other and continue to move. If I do not create something or that I am not creative, it is difficult for me to know what to do with myself,” he said. “I do it because I like to do it and I want the opportunity to do more. I would simply say: “The Bondman” is another chapter, another fun concert and another chance of working in the place of someone different from me. “

“If I do not create something or I am creative, it is difficult for me to know what to do with myself,” said Kevin Bacon.

(Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

And Hub is clearly different. In addition to perplexed on his agreement with the devil, he also tries to repair his tense relationship with his ex-wife, as a grass singer country Maryanne (Jennifer Nettles) and her teenage son Cade (Maxwell Jenkins). Meanwhile, the new beautiful Lucky of Maryanne (Damon Herriman) tries to kill him.

“Hub is the hero, but he is a very wrong person,” he said. “He has serious blood on his hands and he has made a lot of mistakes. What is fun and funny about him is that all these strange things are coming to him, but he strangely panic as I would.”

The role extends the vast gallery of Bacon to play the vouchers who are not really so good. In his latest television vehicle, Showtime's “City on a hill“, He portrayed the arrogant investigator of the FBI, Jackie Rohr, who operated on the right side of the law, but had a prominent dark side-engaging in corruption, sniffing the coke and cheating on his wife.

“I don't think I have ever played a good guy directly,” said Bacon. “I am a character actor, not really a leading man. Is Hub good or bad? I don't know. I hope people like him. To stay with the show, you must understand its situation.

His commitment to “The Bondman” extends beyond the main role. Bacon is also an executive producer, and he and Nettles, who is the main singer of the Country Sugarland music duo, wrote and recorded songs for “The Bondman” – Adjacent album, “Hell and return», Out Friday.

The showrunner and executive producer Erik Oleson called “The Bondman” “A bizarre and wacky program that has a family dramatic, country music and Kevin Bacon plunging a chainsaw chain in the heads of demons. What more could you in a television show? And Kevin has natural charisma for the role.

Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Nettles in “The Bondman” by Prime Video.

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Bacon and Oleson cross the fingers that “The Bondman” will have life beyond a season. “I intentionally wrote season 1 to have an end that would make Amazon difficult to give Kevin and I more likely to make more episodes. We were bad and devious partners trying to make sure that this show is the distance.”

In the meantime, there are other projects on the horizon for Bacon – the one who particularly excited him is “Family Movie”, which he and Sedgwick have developed for their families. Their children, Travis and Dew Bacon, should co-star with their parents, who will run the comedy-horror film. “I really hope we can shoot this spring,” he added.

Then he contributed to his footprint on social networks.

“I was really resistant to the idea of ​​social media when I heard about for the first time. But I contacted it when we launch sixdegrees.org, my non-profit charity organization. “Social media with social conscience” was our launch sentence, “he said. “Then, I realized that I have always made these little films for my family or for my friends and pass them. I made a lot of videos for my group (The Bacon brothers), long before there were social media. This is another way, in essence, to play. »»

Although the actor says he likes to create the images, he also admitted that he had become “a bit of a double -edged sword”. Although the content can have a spontaneous atmosphere and on the fly, the reverse is true: “I plan them. I practice. We have taken several sockets. I have an idea of ​​something, then lead it mainly. ”

He has mixed feelings on the answer to his messages: “On the one hand, people really love him. On the other hand, sometimes people will come to me, or me and Kyra, and say:” Do you know what my favorite thing you did? “And I think it will be” Footloose “or” Apollo 13 “, anything. And I will be like” Blood “.”

After a moment, he said, “It's heartbreaking in a way. On the other hand, that's where we are. If that's what people like, it's ok. The horse came out of the barn now in terms of this. Why not kiss her?”