When he tested the look at outdoor Los Angeles shopping mall The Grove, “Nobody recognized me,” Bacon said. But the tide evidently soon turned. “People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice. Nobody said, ‘I love you.’ I had to wait in line to, I don’t know, buy a f***ing coffee or whatever. I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous.”
Lmao this has to be a joke. Is this really what life is like for these people? No one said “I love you” to a stranger at the mall? He had to wait in lines? Maybe the most eye-opening thing about this is that Kevin seemed to expect to be treated more or less the same way he is as a celebrity, just without the selfies, which says to me that he thought everyone gets treated the same way famous people do. Sometimes it’s interesting to get a reminder of how out of touch these people really are.
At least he was curious enough to step out of his bubble for a day and find out what it’s like. That’s better than the rest of them.
It’s super obviously a joke, probably with a large dose of mareting stunt.
Just curious, how’s it obvious? We supposed to Google his movie release schedule…? Text him to see what’s going on…?
What’s obvious to you because you have nothing better to read than media news all day is actually not obvious to 99.99% of other people.
Who would have fucking thought…………
The quoted statements from Kevin Bacon are obviously sarcastic… or do you not understand sarcasm…? Maybe if… he used more ellipses…?
Did you somehow forget how seriously out of touch all the celebrities were during covid? Because going off of previous precedence…
Is it sarcastic? Or is he just being out of touch like 99% of other celebrities… its obviously that, how’s it obviously sarcasm…?
Yes it’s sarcastic, you’ve got to be fucking kidding me bro. I don’t even really understand why this was recycled at the beginning of the Vanity Fair interview, which the OP didn’t link straight to for some unknown reason, because it’s from an interview he did on a talk show back in TWENTY FUCKING SEVENTEEN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbp2EZRyHAk
I found that after not even 15 seconds on google. Like I typed in “Kevin Bacon disguise interview”, did two top to bottom screen swipes, and saw the YouTube thumbnail. You have no excuse for acting this indignant about shit when information is as easy to look up as it is in 2024.
Also bro quoting yourself comes across as a tad unhinged.
I shouldn’t have to do research if something is obvious………
During covid, they were out of touch so obviously it can’t be anything else. If you research that, you would find evidence of this as well.
Neither is obvious to someone with knowledge of either, but celebrities were forcing it down everyone’s throats during covid. So hard to plead ignorance here…
And yeah, I quoted an obviously missed paragraph by a person who responded to me. I should have done it here again for you, since you apparently missed it again as well. Not going to address it… or what…?
Bro who the fuck is “them”? We’re talking about a single person here, I don’t give a flying shit what other people did during Covid. Just so you know, this isn’t fucking debate club, I don’t have to respond to idiotic shit. What you posted and quoted yourself saying is absolute lunatic shit. I had nothing nice to say about it, so I didn’t.
The sarcasm was obvious. You didn’t get the sarcasm regardless. You could have tried to get some context for like a half second before flying off half cocked about who knows what the fuck.
Neither is obvious to someone with knowledge of either, but celebrities were forcing it down everyone’s throats during covid. So hard to plead ignorance here…
Bro I hope English isn’t your first language. If it is I hope you’re actively being driven to the hospital right now because that’s some stroke level shit right there.
Also seriously what is with people using ellipses like this always having the most brain-dead, straight up lobotomized takes on shit?
If you research that, you would find evidence of this as well.
it’s obvious because it’s ridiculous and humorous. not because of his schedule.
Do you think a mega star like him could just go back to be a nobody after all this time? You are delusional. This might be a joke, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. Imagine for the past 30 years of your life wherever you go, people give you gifts, agree with everything you say, ara always super nice to you. Every woman you ever met was weirdly immediately in love with you, you don’t even know the value of money anymore since you filthy rich and or never have to buy stuff.
These fuckers couldn’t be not famous for a week.
I didn’t read that as “he didn’t realize those things” but as “he didn’t think he’d care as much as he did”. Like, it’s easy to say “I could go without X” but actually doing it is different. That’s a universally true experience that seems more likely than “Kevin Bacon thought average people get to skip lines and have strangers say I love you”
It must be, if he doesn’t do it for others normally, or didn’t do it for others while he was disguised, the hell was he expecting?
it’s amazing what constant praise and unlimited favors will do to your brain.
Only thing worse is blinding cynicism.
I’d say an inability to recognize sarcasm, leading someone to take statements obviously said with tongue firmly in cheek at face value, is also worse.
They’re the same picture .jpg
Oh… I once also tested a normcore look at The Grove!
Also, no one paid any attention to me.
All of you can’t hear the WOOSH of the joke going over your head?
He’s taking the piss here. He’s fucking around, it’s to drum up publicity for his movie.
I am in shock how many people are taking these comments seriously lol
It’s Lemmy. It’s always like this.
Lemmy has been around long enough to have an always?
Sounds like my 5 year old nephew telling me about the olden days.
My Kevin Bacon number is two. I know a guy who was an extra in tremors. I have no other achievements in life, so this will have to do.
If I suck your dick it’s almost like I sucked Kevin Bacon’s dick
That’s beautiful
It brings a tear to my eye
That’s what I keep telling people
Mine is 3 my brother was in an indi film with an actress who was in a movie with him. I’m pretty sure she was one of the three main characters in The craft I just can’t remember her name.
https://oracleofbacon.org/ Mine is 4. But I live in Europe.
<Internet high-five>
It bothers me that you never closed your HTML tag
<joke> Perhaps <internet high five /> is a self-closing html5 tag and they omitted the slash as allowed by the spec </joke>
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD, BITCH!!!
Except he left the real world again immediately and went back to being treated like he was Homo Superior. Oh well.
You’ve really got a chip on your shoulder there huh?
About Kevin Bacon not learning a lesson? Not particularly.
Per [Vanity Fair], he was outfitted with fake teeth, a slightly different nose and glasses. When he tested the look at outdoor Los Angeles shopping mall The Grove, “Nobody recognized me,” Bacon said. But the tide evidently soon turned. “People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice. Nobody said, ‘I love you.’ I had to wait in line to, I don’t know, buy a f***ing coffee or whatever. I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous,” he told VF.
The actor, who has been working steadily since the late 70s and became a megastar with 1984’s Footloose, also told VF, “I honestly feel very grateful for where I happen to be. That I can have two totally different movies coming out within a couple of days of each other, and completely different roles. The fact they would both come my way is the thing that I feel the most gratitude for. I’ve fought really long and hard for it.”
The guy is a complete tool.
If you can’t tell it’s a joke and marketing for his two movies coming out, you’re the tool.
I certainly hope that now he, as Kevin Bacon, walks around telling strangers he loves them. Since now he knows how much it sucks to be a nobody.
I live in Jackson, Wyoming. We have the highest per capita number of billionaires cosplaying at “normal guy” in the nation. It’s a thing. They come up here, switch to their “mountain casual” clothes (bonus points if well worn), get in a ten year old Subaru and go to the bar and have a beer with “the locals”. Maybe a trip to the Idaho side and hit Victor, Driggs, or Tetonia.
Now I’m planning to only go out in the disguise of Kevin Bacon, so people love me and I get my coffee faster
Lol, Roger did exactly this in American Dad! (S02E15, “Four Little Words”)
This is literally the episode of 30 Rock I watched yesterday. Season 3 episode 15 I think?
I too once disguised to experience life as a Non-Famous Person, and it turned out to be exactly the same as my everyday life.
should I know who this guy is ?
The inventor of Bacon.
thanks
*nod gif*
I see the one. That trappist dude in the great north setting up a tent and giving the viewer a look with more validation than my dad ever could
He starred in jimmy fallons first drafts of rock. He’s famous
Not that famous. I have no idea who he is.
See, I’m not alone
cheers
That’s Ted Danson
Thanks, makes sense
Who is Kevin Bacon?
Schlub Like Me
has he tried rubbing some bacon on it?
On his life?
No, on me!
White guys will cosplay as absolutely anyone to get the “real” experience but never bother just try talking to someone. Wanna know the black experience? Why go through the trouble of finding a black person and listening? Wanna see what it like to be a woman? Step in here with our stylist. Like, we could just listen to people. I’m pretty sure most of them would tell us. It seems way easier to than this.
I get your point, but there is something to be said about walking a mile in another man’s shoe. Experiencing it yourself will always be more impactful.
This has nothing to do with anything you’re talking about.
People suck at reporting on their experiences. Like, good luck knowing what garlic bread is like without eating some. “Oh just ask someone who’s eaten garlic bread. White men never LiStEn”
It’s 8am and I’m craving garlic bread now
Wanna know the black experience? Why go through the trouble of finding a black person and listening?
Because blackface will cause me new issues that I chose not to experience.
I actually agree with you, but I also don’t think it’s realistic to expect people to be “real” around a celebrity.
But none of them will tell him: “did you know we have to wait in line for our coffee?”
Nobody says they love me during the day.
