Kevin Bacon Tried To Disguise Himself As A Regular Person For A Day, And The Outcome Is Hilarious

    The super famous star of MaXXXine and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F tried to be an average person for a day, and the result was far from what he anticipated.

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    Kevin Bacon tried to be average for a day, but it didn't play out how he expected.

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    I first fell in love with Kevin's acting after watching The River Wild (1994) with my family and then secretly watching Wild Things (1998) without my family a few years later.

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    Almost everybody recognizes Kevin from at least one movie or can famously link him to another person using six degrees or less.

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    In an interview with Vanity Fair, Kevin revealed how he tried to live out his fantasy of being a non-famous person, and the result is hilarious.

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    He was confident that no disguise would keep people from recognizing his famous face.

    "I went to a special effects makeup artist, had consultations, and asked him to make me a prosthetic disguise," Kevin explained.

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    Kevin's prosthetic disguise consisted of fake teeth, a prosthetic nose, glasses, and an outfit that resembled his character in MaXXXine, the final installment in Ti West's horror trilogy that also includes 2022's X and Pearl.

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    He chose to test out his new disguise at The Grove, a heavily populated outdoor shopping mall in Los Angeles. FYI: It's about nine minutes from Hollywood.

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    "Nobody recognized me," Kevin said.

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    Living out his fantasy was different from what he expected.

    "People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice," he said.

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    "Nobody said, 'I love you.'" He continued. "I had to wait in line to, I don't know, buy a fucking coffee or whatever."

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    In the end, Kevin was not about the simple life.

    "I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous."

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    Nobody recogizing him is wildly funny, considering that Kevin Bacon is one of the most famous actors with a career dating back to the '70s.

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    Kevin also played an invisible man in Hollow Man, but it's not so much fun in real life — is it?

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    As a Los Angeles resident, I seem to run into someone who looks like Kevin Bacon daily, so I don't blame The Grove patrons for ignoring him. But how did they not recognize his voice?

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    Read the full interview here.