How Kevin Bacon’s famous father encouraged him to become more famous

Not only is Kevin Bacon an internationally known movie star, but he has also worked with many of your favorite stars – or actors who have worked with them, according to the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

But it turns out that he achieved a certain degree of fame himself, because his own father was on the cover of TIME Magazine. Edmund Bacon was a prominent Philadelphia city planner and architect who is often referred to as the “Father of Modern Philadelphia.”

Through this contact with the celebrity, Kevin also developed an interest in the limelight, as he confirmed in an interview with Vanity Fair.

“One hundred percent,” he said when asked if he wanted to be famous as a child. “As far as my parents’ credit goes, and of course I give them all the credit, my mother was very artistic and really encouraged acting.”

He continued, “My dad was famous in Philadelphia, which is a small pond in some ways, but to me it was a big pond. I saw him being recognized by people when he walked down the street, and seeing that was definitely a big driving force in my life.”

This led Kevin to want to be more famous than he was, and he stated that this was definitely a motivator for his success.

The Unbound Star was one of six children and his parents “both encouraged as much creativity as possible in everything – dance, music, theater, painting, sculpture, whatever.”

He is not the only star in his family – his brother Michael, 74, is a singer-songwriter and film music composer.

But Kevin wondered if fame was really everything and discovered that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side when he tried disguising himself to live as a normal person.

“I went to a special effects makeup artist, got a consultation and asked him to make me a prosthetic costume,” he said, which meant “nobody recognized me.”

As he walked around unrecognizable, he noticed that “people were kind of pushing past me and not being nice.”

He added: “Nobody said, ‘I love you.’ I had to stand in line to, I don’t know, buy a (expletive) coffee or whatever. I was like, ‘This sucks. I want to be famous again.'”