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Why Kevin Bacon Leaps at Any Chance to Play the Bad Guy · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of actors are very cautious about the roles
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  Speaker 2: they choose because they want to make sure whatever they
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  Speaker 2: star in it keeps them in a positive light. The
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  Speaker 2: ideas if fans walk away from a show or film
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  Speaker 2: liking the character, they'll in turn grow fond of the star.
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  Speaker 2: But Kevin Bacon certainly doesn't think that way. He's played
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  Speaker 2: plenty of nice guys, but just as many dark or
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  Speaker 2: immoral characters, and taking on a bad guy role has
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  Speaker 2: never given him pause. He tells Vanity Fair to me,
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  Speaker 2: this is what an actor is. I'm never worried about
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  Speaker 2: how people feel about me. Work is about becoming other
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  Speaker 2: people and becoming part of the story. I don't need
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  Speaker 2: you to go to a movie and love me. If
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  Speaker 2: you watch a movie like My New Ones, Maxine or
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  Speaker 2: Beverly Hills, cop axle F and I die and you
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  Speaker 2: stand up and cheer, great, that was my gig. That's
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  Speaker 2: what I wanted out of it, Kevin making they're on
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  Speaker 2: embracing the bad guy role as much as his good
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  Speaker 2: guy opportunities. Maxine is in theaters.
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  Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood,