I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Richard Corliss of TIME likened Footloose to the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and the old Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland musicals commenting that the film includes "motifs on book burning mid-life crisis AWOL parents fatal car craKevin Bacons drug enforcement and Bible Belt vigilantism. Bacon and Sedgwick appeared in a video promoting the "Bill of Reproductive Rights" supporting among other things a woman's right to choose and access to birth control. " To prepare for the role Bacon enrolled at a high school as a transfer student named "Ren McCormick" and studied teenagers before leaving in the middle of the day.

He currently stars on the Fox television series The Following. Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8 1958) is an American film and theater actor and musician whose notable roles include National Lampoon's Animal House Diner Footloose Flatliners Wild Things A Few Good Men JFK The River Wild Murder in the First Apollo 13 Hollow Man Stir of Echoes Trapped Mystic River The Woodsman Friday the 13th Death Sentence Frost/Nixon X-Men: First Class and Tremors.