When he tested the look at outdoor Los Angeles shopping mall The Grove, “Nobody recognized me,” Bacon said. But the tide evidently soon turned. “People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice. Nobody said, ‘I love you.’ I had to wait in line to, I don’t know, buy a f***ing coffee or whatever. I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous.”

Lmao this has to be a joke. Is this really what life is like for these people? No one said "I love you" to a stranger at the mall? He had to wait in lines? Maybe the most eye-opening thing about this is that Kevin seemed to expect to be treated more or less the same way he is as a celebrity, just without the selfies, which says to me that he thought everyone gets treated the same way famous people do. Sometimes it's interesting to get a reminder of how out of touch these people really are.

All of you can't hear the WOOSH of the joke going over your head?

He's taking the piss here. He's fucking around, it's to drum up publicity for his movie.

My Kevin Bacon number is two. I know a guy who was an extra in tremors. I have no other achievements in life, so this will have to do.

Now I'm planning to only go out in the disguise of Kevin Bacon, so people love me and I get my coffee faster

I certainly hope that now he, as Kevin Bacon, walks around telling strangers he loves them. Since now he knows how much it sucks to be a nobody.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD, BITCH!!!

Per [Vanity Fair], he was outfitted with fake teeth, a slightly different nose and glasses. When he tested the look at outdoor Los Angeles shopping mall The Grove, “Nobody recognized me,” Bacon said. But the tide evidently soon turned. “People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice. Nobody said, ‘I love you.’ I had to wait in line to, I don’t know, buy a f***ing coffee or whatever. I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous,” he told VF.

The actor, who has been working steadily since the late 70s and became a megastar with 1984’s Footloose, also told VF, “I honestly feel very grateful for where I happen to be. That I can have two totally different movies coming out within a couple of days of each other, and completely different roles. The fact they would both come my way is the thing that I feel the most gratitude for. I’ve fought really long and hard for it.”

I too once disguised to experience life as a Non-Famous Person, and it turned out to be exactly the same as my everyday life.

I live in Jackson, Wyoming. We have the highest per capita number of billionaires cosplaying at "normal guy" in the nation. It's a thing. They come up here, switch to their "mountain casual" clothes (bonus points if well worn), get in a ten year old Subaru and go to the bar and have a beer with "the locals". Maybe a trip to the Idaho side and hit Victor, Driggs, or Tetonia.

this is dumb and pointless

This is literally the episode of 30 Rock I watched yesterday. Season 3 episode 15 I think?

Who is Kevin Bacon?

has he tried rubbing some bacon on it?