Kevin Bacon Disguised Himself as One of Us, Hated It

Playing "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" will only get easier as of this weekend: The actor has two new films opening, the horror movie MaXXXine from Ti West and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F with Eddie Murphy. He sat down with Vanity Fair's Julie Miller to talk about the films, and a whole lot more, and the interview yielded some real gems and is worth a read in its entirety here. Our favorites:

• He disguised himself as a regular person: Like, seriously disguised, with help from a special effects makeup artist who outfitted him with a prosthetic nose and fake teeth. Bacon then went to a popular LA shopping mall and went unnoticed. "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."

• On having a famous dad, Philadelphia urban planner Edmund Bacon: "I saw him get recognized by people when he would walk down the street and seeing that was definitely a big driving force in my life. Frankly, I wanted to be more famous than him. And you can lay me down on the shrink's couch. We could talk about that for a while. But it was definitely a motivator."
• On his actress daughter Sosie: "She will send auditions [to us], and my wife [Kyra Sedgwick] is very much a director. She can be extremely helpful. Usually, my first response is, 'If they don't give you this part, they're f---ing idiots.' I always think that every audition that she does is like a swish."
• On doing another horror movie: "I'm a consumer of horror. I think that it's always been discounted as a serious genre. ... The other thing about it, as an actor, is a lot of times it's a life and death situation. The stakes are very high, so you get great stuff to play."
• What he'd do differently: "Pick people's brains who have more experience than you. I just didn't do that. I thought I knew everything there was to know about everything. I was never looking for any kind of mentorship or advice, either from actors or people who had more experience than me. I didn't have that gene. I was cocky and headstrong and determined."

(Read the full interview here.)