After more than four decades as an actor, it’s damn near impossible for Kevin Bacon to go out unrecognized. So, he recently got a “prosthetic disguise” made in an attempt to blend in as a regular person for a day and learned why being just another face “sucks.”
Bacon shared the experience in a recent interview with Vanity Fair, explaining that he went to such lengths because “putting my hat and glasses on is only going to work to a certain extent.” Being a Hollywood actor, he could easily take it to the next level.
“I went to a special effects makeup artist, had consultations, and asked him to make me a prosthetic disguise,” Bacon said, adding that it worked so well nobody recognized him at the busy shopping center The Grove in Los Angeles.
After feeling initial delight for blending in, Bacon got a small dose of what it’s like to be treated like everyone else. “People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice,” he remembered. “Nobody said, ‘I love you.’ I had to wait in line to, I don’t know, buy a fucking coffee or whatever. I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous.”
Bacon is currently doing press around his roles as a private detective in Ti West’s MaXXXine and Eddie Murphy’s primary antagonist in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Read our recent interview with Bacon, in which he talks about the current state of horror films and praises West as an “artist.”