Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

Got a great one for you today with no understatement here, a Hollywood icon.

His name is Kevin Bacon.

I will not insult you or bore you with a long wind up or introduction.

You know the man.

What I can tell you that you may not know is that he grew up in Philadelphia, the son

of a legendary architect and urban planner.

His dad basically helped to shape and build modern Philadelphia.

So he was kind of a celebrity around the city when Kevin and his siblings were growing

up.

Kevin saw that people knew his name, people liked his dad's work, gave him pets on the

back and thought, hmm, that's something I like to have when I grow up.

So he became an actor, moved to New York City when he was 17 to become a stage actor.

But within about a year got an audition for a movie called Animal House.

He won the part, the rest is history, the movie becomes an American classic.

He then was in the original Friday the 13th movie.

I don't know if you remember that.

And then he was in Barry Levinson's diner.

He got a lot of a claim for his performance in that movie.

All of it leading to a movie called Footloose in 1984.

Of course that is the movie that made Kevin Bacon a household name and a star around the

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