As a big fan of horror movies and creature features, I adore Kevin Bacon's role as Valentine alongside Earl, played by the late Fred Ward in 1990's Tremors. Another classic 90's movie starring Bacon is 98's Wild Things, and the Stir of Echoes star recently revealed a disturbing find on set.
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Kevin Bacon recently appeared on Variety's 'Know Their Lines' series on YouTube. The show challenges film stars to recall what movie a specific line is from. At the start of the show, Bacon jokes, "This is the part where I wish I'd only done four movies." The Wild Things star is asked to recite, "People aren't always who they appear to be, don't forget that" from the crime thriller also starring Neve Campbell and Matt Dillon.
Bacon sets the scene. "We were out in the swamp one night, and a lot of mosquitoes. Wow." He explains that the crew set up a light on a raft while they were shooting by the river. "All of a sudden, I hear across the walkie-talkie, 'Hey, I think I just saw a floater.'"
He laughs "And it was a body that was floating by! It was kind of indicative of the vibe of the movie," he added.
Kevin Bacon Reveals Other Unique Occurences On Other Movie Sets
Alongside the shocking revelation of the discovery on the Wild Things set, Bacon revealed some other fantastic movie trivia. On the set of Apollo 13, Bacon explained that the movie crew filmed some of the floating scenes in "the vomit comet." He explains that NASA allowed them to shoot inside a plane designed to simulate zero gravity. "I didn't throw up, but I had a cameraman throw up on me, which was interesting in Zero Gravity," the Bondsman actor joked.
Bacon joked that most pictures he ends up signing are of him playing dead, owing to his grisly death in the 1980 slasher movie Friday the 13th. He also spoke highly of Meryl Streep, calling her "probably the closest thing that I've had to an actor whose career I would like to model mine after."
