CraveOnline: You say you like to jump into a lot of different shoes. Is there anything you’ve always wanted to do, that you’d jump at if you had the shot?
Kevin Bacon: I would say that… People sometimes say, “Is there a character or historical figure or whatever?” I don’t really have that so much. I suppose… I suppose I would like to maybe do a western. That’s a genre that I haven’t really worked in. The closest I came is Tremors.
I do love Tremors.
The one thing I will say… How you doing, buddy?
[Chiwetel Ejiofor walks by and shakes Kevin Bacon’s hand.]
Kevin Bacon: Good to see you, man.
Chiwetel Ejiofor: Good to see you!
[Chiwetel Ejiofor leaves.]
I love that guy. Great fucking actor. Oh my god. I would love to revisit that character.
Really, from Tremors? Has there been any talk about that? Because it’s never gone away. Everyone still loves it.
Well, they make these sequels that I don’t do. I think they’ve made… at least five?
They’ve made a lot. And there was that TV series.
There was the TV series, which of course I also wasn’t in. But the idea of really rebooting it, but also, of the characters I’ve done, it’s the one character that I could see it makes sense to jump ahead twenty years – or twenty-five years, whatever it is – and see where that guy’s at right now, you know? I think that would be really kind of fun. I think it’s a tough sell because the original movie, while it was a real cult hit and it’s had this ongoing life as straight to DVD sequels, it wasn’t a hit at the box office. So, who’s to say it would be a hit at the box office a second time around? But the idea I think is an interesting one.
William Bibbiani is the editor of CraveOnline’s Film Channel and the host of The B-Movies Podcast and The Blue Movies Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.
