for Kevin Bacon2024 is not just the 40th anniversary freewhich is also the anniversary of his last trip to the Oscars.
ET’s Nischelle Turner caught up with the legendary 65-year-old actor at a bar on Thursday. Beverly Hills Detective: Axel F At the premiere in Los Angeles, he shared that he hasn’t had the opportunity to return to Hollywood’s biggest night since his prime. free sky.
“It’s crazy. I’m thinking – I haven’t been to the Oscars since 1984,” he shared, adding, “I was like the ‘It Boy’ of the year.”
At that time, Bacon not only attended the Oscars as an invited guest, but also attended the Oscars as a host and presented the Best Sound Editing Award to Jay Boekelheide. right thing. He appeared side by side Darryl Hannahwhen she was splash With Tom Hanks.
exist freeBacon plays Len McCormack, an immigrant from Chicago who moves to a rural town only to discover that the city has a strict ban on dancing, enacted by a local minister.
Back in December, Bacon spoke to ET at the premiere of another Netflix movie he’s starring in, leave the world behind,Where is he Long-term legacy discussed free ahead of its 40th anniversary. The film premiered in February 1984 and also starred Sarah Jessica Peck, Lori Singer and John Lithgow.
“40 years. That was one of those movies. It really changed my life,” he said. “It would be untrue to say anything else. I was working, I knew I was going to be an actor long-term, but I thought I was a character actor – which I was – but it occupied people’s hearts and minds at that moment, My life was transformed.
Bacon said that despite the fact that it has been forty years since the film premiered free It’s still the movies that people approach him for. “I’ve done a lot of work since then, but that’s what people come up to and talk to me about,” he noted.
In an interesting twist of fate, Bacon now stars in another movie that aired the first one in 1984: beverly hills cop. Thursday, actor said he was extremely excited for the opportunity to join the Eddie Murphy-led film, calling it “the greatest fish out of water series.”
“When this movie came out, I loved it, you know, I can’t remember where exactly I saw it – probably, I made sure I paid for it, it was a big deal,” he said of the film Once saw the December 1984 release. “I was sitting in the dark with a stranger, holding my popcorn.”
Despite his love for the film and his love for Murphy, 63, Bacon said his interactions with Murphy so far have been minimal. That’s part of the reason he jumped at the chance to join the latest installment beverly hills cop The series is launched 30 years after the last sequel.
The film tells the story of Axel Foley, played by Murphy, and his estranged daughter Jane (Paige). After their daughter’s life is threatened, Jane and Foley join forces with his new partner, the detective. Bobby Abbott (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), old friends Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) will turn up the heat and Uncover a conspiracy.
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Beverly Hills Detective: Axel F Premieres on Netflix on July 3rd.
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