{"id":1750567,"date":"2022-11-24T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750567"},"modified":"2022-11-24T11:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T16:03:56","slug":"kevin-bacon-tells-us-its-really-cool-being-a-hero-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-bacon-tells-us-its-really-cool-being-a-hero-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Bacon Tells Us: It\u2019s \u201cReally Cool\u201d Being a Hero in \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkevin-bacon-tells-us-its-really-cool-being-a-hero-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750567&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The galaxy has an unexpected new Guardian, just in time for the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Bacon, 64, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/guardians-of-the-galaxy-holiday-special-trailer-kevin-bacon-1235248297\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made a surprise cameo<\/a> last month in the trailer for \u201cThe Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special,\u201d premiering Friday on <a href=\"http:\/\/disneyplus.bn5x.net\/nOQGR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Disney+<\/a>. And while Marvel fanboys and fangirls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/movies\/news\/guardians-of-the-galaxy-fans-are-thrilled-over-kevin-bacons-cameo-in-the-official-holiday-special-trailer\/ar-AA13nx6w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">were delighted<\/a> by his casting, no one was more over the moon than Bacon himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, I love to do that kind of stuff. To me, movies are this giant playground. I get to play and a grown man gets to just goof around and have fun,\u201d Bacon, 64, recently told The Post. \u201cI take the work very seriously, but in the case of something like \u2018Guardians,\u2019 you have to stop sometimes and go, \u2018Oh, s- -t, this is really cool!\u2019 I got a really, really fun gig.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the movie spinoff special, Mantis (Pom Klementieff) and Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista) set out to make Christmas a special one for Peter Quill (a k a Star-Lord, played by Chris Pratt) and find him the perfect present \u2014 by kidnapping and literally gifting Bacon to him (with help from a $40 Hollywood Star Map).\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/newspress-collage-24760304-1669212884949.jpg?1669195218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/newspress-collage-24760304-1669212884949.jpg?1669195218&#038;w=1024&#038;1669195218\" alt=\"Kevin Bacon (right) has joined the Marvel metaverse with a cameo in \" The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special \/><\/a><figcaption>Kevin Bacon (right) has joined the Marvel universe with a role in \u201cThe Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special,\u201d which stars Chris Pratt (left) as Star-Lord\/Peter Quill.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jessica Miglio\/MARVEL; Nathan Congleton\/NBC via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But Bacon\u2019s interstellar journey to the Guardians\u2019 wild winter wonderland has been a strange one. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuardians\u201d fans are well aware of Quill\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=79_dMMlWALY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fixation on the \u201clegend\u201d of \u201cgreat hero\u201d Bacon<\/a>, a delusion weirdly bolstered by the actor\u2019s role in 1984\u2019s \u201cFootloose.\u201d But his 2014 name-check in the \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d movie caught Bacon off-guard, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really shocked. I went to the movie without knowing that that\u2019s what was going to happen,\u201d Bacon recalled to The Post about venturing to a theater where it was showing. \u201cAnd if you could imagine sitting there in a dark room with strangers \u2014 I was all alone \u2014 and all of a sudden they\u2019re talking about me. I have pretty weird experiences in my life just based on, you know, what I do for a living. But that one was pretty weird.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\">[embedded content]<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Ultimately, though, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/ClCsCDZPdi_\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the proud Philadelphia native<\/a> said he was \u201cthrilled\u201d by his \u201chilarious\u201d inclusion \u2014 which made it even easier to sign on to filmmaker James Gunn\u2019s new, festive frolic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got a sort of left-of-center kind of point of view about the world, which I think was fascinating and interesting to me,\u201d Bacon said of Gunn, with whom he worked on the action flick \u201cSuper\u201d in 2010. \u201cSo when he reaches out and says, \u2018I want to do this holiday special and you\u2019re in it,\u2019 that\u2019s just an immediate, \u2018Yes.\u2019 I don\u2019t need to read it. I\u2019ll be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But this is definitely <em>not<\/em> \u201cRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a Wonderful Life\u201d or whatever your grandma\u2019s favorite, touching holiday classic may be.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Guardians-bacon-scene-51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Guardians-bacon-scene-51.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Bacon unloads holiday presents from his car before an unfortunate altercation with a couple of well-meaning but misguided Guardians.\" class=\"wp-image-24760826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Guardians-bacon-scene-51.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Guardians-bacon-scene-51.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Guardians-bacon-scene-51.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Kevin Bacon unloads holiday presents from his car before an unfortunate altercation with a couple of well-meaning but misguided Guardians.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Marvel Studios<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Guardians-mantis-57-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Guardians-mantis-57-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Mantis (Pom Klementieff) and Drax (Dave Bautista) make an uninvited visit to Kevin Bacon&#039;s home in \" The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special \/><\/a><figcaption>Mantis (Pom Klementieff) and Drax (Dave Bautista) make an uninvited visit to Kevin Bacon\u2019s home in \u201cThe Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jessica Miglio\/Marvel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For fans, the fast-paced, 44-minute show includes everyone\u2019s favorite Guardians, including Quill, Drax, Mantis, Nebula (Karen Gillan), Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel), Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper), Kraglin (Sean Gunn) and Yondu Udonta (Michael Rooker).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And it also features some subversive music, including a hilarious \u2014 and violent \u2014 Christmas carol, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=97NLboCjdbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">titled \u201cI Don\u2019t Know What Christmas Is (But Christmastime Is Here),\u201d<\/a> that entirely misconstrues the meaning of the holiday and labels Santa Claus \u201ca furry freak.\u201d It includes lyrics like: \u201cMrs. Claus, she works the pole \/ Plans her man\u2019s demise \/ Soon the elves will all rise up and stab out Santa\u2019s eyes.\u201d (The 12-song soundtrack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/music\/player\/albums\/B0BMS43CGY?tag=nypost-20&#038;asc_refurl=https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/23\/kevin-bacon-its-really-cool-to-be-a-hero-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy\/&#038;asc_source=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">was released<\/a> Nov. 23 and includes a tune with alt-country band <a href=\"https:\/\/old97s.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Old 97\u2019s<\/a> and vocals by Bacon, who since 1994 has performed alongside his sibling Michael in the group the Bacon Brothers.)<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, in December 2020, Bacon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=828175587755795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">took to Facebook<\/a> to declare himself \u201ca bit of a Scrooge when it comes to Christmas music.\u201d While he grudgingly saluted \u201cBlue Christmas\u201d by Elvis Presley, \u201cMerry Christmas Baby\u201d by Otis Redding and \u201cGreensleeves\u201d as performed by John Coltrane, he does otherwise bemoan the annual cacophony of Christmas carols.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s maybe less the songs as the fact that they\u2019re inescapable during that season, that every time you, you know, walk into a store or onto an elevator or turn on the radio, you know what I mean? You just can\u2019t get away from it,\u201d he told The Post. \u201cBut I think that one of the things that\u2019s fun about the movie is, you know, down to James and his sense of humor \u2014 and also his musical taste is that he\u2019s found a whole bunch of very cool holiday songs to stick in the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/guardians-music-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/guardians-music-1.jpg\" alt=\"Members of alt-country group the Old 97&#039;s perform with Kevin Bacon in the special.\" class=\"wp-image-24760837\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/guardians-music-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/guardians-music-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/guardians-music-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/guardians-music-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/guardians-music-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Members of alt-country group the Old 97\u2019s perform with Kevin Bacon in the special.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jessica Miglio\/Marvel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The \u201cApollo 13\u201d star also is wishy-washy when asked for his all-time favorite holiday special before acknowledging his \u201clove\u201d for the original, animated version of Dr. Seuss\u2019 \u201cHow the Grinch Stole Christmas.\u201d It seems that\u00a0one grabs his nostalgic heart. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of why you like something like that is because it takes you back to when you first saw it, you know what I mean?\u201d a reminiscing Bacon said. \u201cSo it\u2019s not even so much about the content, the actual thing. It\u2019s just that feeling of going back and experiencing what you experienced as a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether the \u201cGuardians\u201d special will become a prized perennial program remains to be seen \u2014 though Bacon may already be prepared for that extra notoriety, partly because of the pervasive <a href=\"https:\/\/oracleofbacon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon<\/a> game. It claims that the \u201cFriday the 13th\u201d and \u201cA Few Good Men\u201d actor is the center of the entertainment universe and that any actor can be connected to Bacon \u2014 whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000102\/\">IMDb profile<\/a> lists more than 100 roles \u2014 within just a half-dozen steps.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/guardians-gunn-on-set-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/guardians-gunn-on-set-1.jpg\" alt=\"Director\/writer James Gunn (right) works with Chris Pratt (left) and Dave Bautista (center) on the set of \" The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special \/><\/a><figcaption>Director and screenwriter James Gunn (right) works with Chris Pratt (left) and Dave Bautista (center) on the set of \u201cThe Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jessica Miglio\/Marvel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bacon initially saw the game as a dig at his career and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/01\/20\/6-degrees-from-kevin-bacon-embraces-dark-side\/\">told The Post<\/a> in 2013 that he \u201cthought it would just kinda go away.\u201d But he has since learned to accept the cultural quirk and even used it as a catapult for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixdegrees.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> a nonprofit organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took me a while to see the value of that, frankly, but now I totally embrace it. It is my life,\u201d as he most recently explained to The Post. \u201cI don\u2019t believe you become an actor because you want to hide. You become an actor because you want to do something that people are going to see and recognize. And sometimes that recognition comes in certain kinds of ways and sometimes that comes in other ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just grateful that I get to keep working today, that I\u2019m still able to do stuff that people still want to see. I pinch myself all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The galaxy has an unexpected new Guardian, just in time for the holiday season. 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