Remember the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game? Turns out: “Kevin Bacon is not the center of Hollywood. In fact, he never has been, and almost certainly never will be.”
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In case you're not familiar with Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or how it got started (there are some head-scratching comments about this on social media), here's the Wikipedia page.
At 6 years old, I was an extra in the original Footloose, so I assert that I am one degree from Kevin Bacon.
(I did not share a scene with Mr. Bacon, but I did with John Lithgow).
I'm not an actor, but I do work in the film business. Way back in the early 90's, I worked on a student film that starred Kim Dickens (before she had an agent) who went on to costar with Kevin Bacon in Hollow Man, so if we count non-actors I have a Bacon number of 2.
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