Hi, it's Anna.

Earlier this week I talked with actor Kevin Bacon,

on stage in New York in front of a live audience.

And I wanted to share that conversation with you right away.

Thanks for having me. How's everybody doing?

He's in a new show on Amazon called I Love Dick.

It's directed by Jill Solaway, who also created Transparent.

And Kevin Bacon plays Dick, a sculptor and rancher

in Marfa, Texas, who everyone in town wants to sleep with.

The show I Love Dick is all about exploring the constraints of monogamy.

In real life, Kevin has been married for nearly 30 years to actor Kira Sedgwick.

So I wanted to know about that contrast and what it's been like for him to play a

role at 58 years old that is most defined by sexual magnetism.

You know I can't really 100% act that, you know what I mean? It's like I don't really feel like I can act. You can't come into a room in my opinion sexy. You can come into a room wanting something.

You can come into a room being desirous of another person. You can walk into a room, you can walk into a room, you know, hungry or angry or fearful or irritated.

There's a lot of other things that you can kind of play but sort of trying to play sexy is not something

that really works.

I mean it however that being said I think that the it's a story that needs to be told so not just me but everybody that's

involved with it whether it's camera music hair makeup or camera, music, hair, makeup, wardrobe is to try to create this kind of object of desire.

So there's been much said about Jill Soloway's sets and how she creates these really intense communities.

You know, on transparent, for example, actors on that show have talked about how being on that show has made them think about gender in different ways and

sexuality in different ways. Have you found working with Jill Soloway and on I Love Dick?

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