Six degrees of a nobody.
Kevin Bacon put on an elaborate disguise for an afternoon of shopping at the touristy Grove shopping center in Los Angeles and found out being a normal person is not all it’s cracked up to be.
The “Apollo 13” star explained in a new interview with Vanity Fair that he had often fantasized about going about his day as a non-famous person but realized that it would take some work.
“I’m not complaining, but I have a face that’s pretty recognizable,” Bacon told the magazine. “Putting my hat and glasses on is only going to work to a certain extent.”
So he actually went all-out and visited “a special effects makeup artist, had consultations, and asked him to make me a prosthetic disguise.”
He was outfitted the movie star with a different nose, glasses and fake teeth, which all made him look so unrecognizable he was unable to cut the line to get a coffee.
“Nobody recognized me,” he said, adding that while he enjoyed it for a moment, people began “pushing past” him and “not being nice.”
He quipped, “Nobody said, ‘I love you.’”
Bacon even had to suffer the indignity of having to wait his turn.
“I had to wait in line to, I don’t know, buy a f–king coffee or whatever,” he groused. “I was like, ‘This sucks. I want to go back to being famous.’”
Bacon has been a star for more than half his life — starring in the massive 1984 hit “Footloose” when he was just 26. Since then, he’s appeared in dozens of movies and television shows.
His career has been so prolific that it spawned a trivia game called “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” where the goal was to link any actor to Kevin Bacon in less than six roles.
Last month, Bacon and his wife Kyra Sedgwick made a rare red carpet appearance at the premiere of Kevin’s new movie, “MaXXXine,” with their children, son Travis, 35, and daughter Sosie, 32.
The “Mystic River” star and the “Closer” alum have been married since 1988.
“We’re really lucky. We got lucky really young,” she told Page Six in March. “[But], you know, it’s work. It’s always going to be work. A partnership for that long demands a lot of you. … I feel like a very lucky woman.”
Bacon can currently be seen in “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” opposite Eddie Murphy.
