May 24, 2017
Philadelphia native Kevin Bacon is many things: Actor, singer, bad with money.
But sexy enough to play Ren in the 1984 classic "Footloose?" Apparently, he almost wasn’t.
Bacon sat down with several other male actors for a recent roundtable with the Hollywood Reporter.
The actors were asked if they felt they had ever been subjected to sexism in show business, and here was Bacons' answer:
I've got one. I think this qualifies as sexist. I'll let women decide that because I think that's something that women understand a lot better than men do, let's face it. I was up for a little film called "Footloose." The head of the studio was a woman. And the director and the producer wanted me for the part and she said, "I don't want him. He's not f—--able."
Kumail Nanjiani countered by asking, "Who has ever been more f---able than Kevin Bacon?"
Good question. Bacon got the part, and it’s safe to say that many would, indeed, call him f---able.
