6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon goes all the way back again to Abraham Lincoln.
Kevin Bacon is no stranger to the viral Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon phenomenon, but, as he exclusively shared with E! Information, there’s a man or woman he is evidently connected to that came as rather the shock.
“A single of the most fascinating ones I at any time saw—this is fairly dark—was that anyone related me to John Wilkes Booth, who was the male that assassinated Abraham Lincoln,” Bacon shared, “for the reason that he was an actor and he was in a participate in with an individual who was in a silent movie and then the connections ongoing from that level on. So, it was six degrees all the way back to John Wilkes Booth.”
You may be scratching your head in disbelief that Bacon someway ties again to 1865. The viral game, which is centered on the theory that all people are connected by six social connections or much less, troubles players to link Bacon to another acquainted facial area in the business by means of mutual costars in as handful of connections as achievable.
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Being that Bacon has appeared in some really legendary movie these kinds of as “Footloose,” “A Several Fantastic Men” and “Friday the 13th,” there is loads of alternatives for an actor to be connected to Bacon in six techniques or fewer. And most likely the likelihood are growing as Bacon is starring in a new project premiering on Disney+ Nov. 25: “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday break Exclusive.”
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The film, which also stars Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan and Pom Klementieff, follows the Guardians as they make the journey to Earth on the hunt for the perfect Christmas current so they can make the holiday getaway one particular to try to remember for Peter Quill (performed by Chris).
Bacon admitted he was all set to soar in in advance of he even knew what to expect.
“I failed to even know what the tale was. Just the notion that I was gonna be in a ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Christmas unique was more than enough for me,” he completely instructed E! News. “I claimed sure with out obtaining study the script. And then, [director James Gunn] instructed me that I was enjoying myself, which was yet another issue I didn’t know. I thought it’s possible it was gonna be one more character that they experienced created up.”
Bacon extra, “To be there and see Drax and Mantis and everyone else, all the Guardians on the established, it was its have Xmas present in June.”
