Kevin Bacon returned to Payson High School, the location for his hit movie Footloose, ahead of the school's planned demolition.
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“It’s been 40 years. I mean, that just blows my mind. Things look a little different around here. I’d say the thing that looks the most different is me,” Kevin said as he addressed the crowd at the school.Prior to Kevin’s visit, the students had launched a full-fledged social media campaign dubbed #BacontoPayson and called for the actor to visit their high school before its scheduled demolition at the end of the school year.
Even Utah Gov. Spencer Cox joined in on the campaign and asked the actor in November to join the celebrations, marking the 40th, “We are so excited that next year will be 40 years of Footloose. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long, I was eight when it came out and we loved it – Utah has never been the same.”
“It’s been a long time, it’s been 40 years…that just blows my mind,” he told the cheering crowd at the school“You were all just tireless, unrelenting in your desire to have me return,” he went on to say. “I think it’s great to see that kind of commitment to anything. I also think that it’s amazing, the power that this movie has had to just kind of bring people together and connect on the basic ideas that are behind the movie.
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