Kevin Bacon was chased and repeatedly stung by a swarm of bees throughout a household hike along with his daughter.
Kevin Bacon was chased and repeatedly stung by a swarm of bees throughout a household hike along with his daughter
The Footloose and Mystic River actor, 67, was focused by the bugs whereas out along with his woman Sosie Bacon and her companion, Scoot McNairy, with the star later turning the painful ordeal right into a comedy sketch for Instagram.
Kevin has shared the story in a video posted to social media, recounting how the hike descended into chaos after the group noticed a beehive alongside the path.
Kevin mentioned: “So I went for a hike the opposite day with Sosie and Scoot. Scoot was within the entrance, Sosie was within the center, and I used to be holding up the rear.”
He continued: “Scoot factors out to the left that there’s a beehive over there. Sosie says, ‘Dad, hey, there’s a beehive. Be careful’.”
Regardless of making an attempt to keep away from the hive, Kevin joked the bugs appeared to focus on him particularly.
He mentioned: “So these bees, they have to not have favored my work or one thing as a result of they left the 2 of them alone, they usually went full on after me: ‘Let’s assault KB.’
“Bees stinging me in every single place, together with beneath my shirt.”
The actor, whose profession spans greater than 4 many years, added Sosie resisted the temptation to movie the incident because it unfolded, as a substitute recreating the second afterwards for social media.
Kevin mentioned: “Now, it was very good of my daughter to not take out her cellphone and begin videoing this epic bee sting dance that I used to be doing. However I requested her if there was any method that she might recreate it from reminiscence.”
The Instagram video then reduce to Sosie reenacting the scene, wildly swinging her hat and pulling off her jumper whereas pretending to fend off imaginary bees.
“There’s bees in there,” Sosie mentioned in the course of the efficiency.
Kevin captioned the video: “The bees assault KB by @sosiebacon.”
Kyra later joined within the joke within the feedback part.
She mentioned: “Sooooo gooood!”
Sosie replied: “It was nothing extra nothing lower than that very dance.”
The incident comes as Kevin and his actress spouse Kyra Sedgwick, 60, put together for the discharge of Household Film, the forthcoming comedy-horror undertaking starring the couple alongside their youngsters, Travis Bacon, 36, and Sosie, 34.
Their household collaboration has already attracted consideration following its premiere at SXSW, whereas Kevin has additionally remained a fixture of popular culture because of renewed curiosity in classics together with Apollo 13, A Few Good Males and the enduring phenomenon of the “Six Levels of Kevin Bacon” recreation.
Kevin and Kyra first met whereas filming the tv film Lemon Sky in 1987 and married the next yr.
Their relationship has lengthy been considered as one among Hollywood’s extra enduring marriages, with the pair continuously showing collectively onscreen and on social media.
Their newest collaboration, Household Film, marks the primary time the whole Bacon household has appeared collectively in a function movie.
In accordance with the SXSW synopsis, the comedy-horror follows the Smith household as they try to make a low-budget horror movie earlier than discovering an actual corpse on set.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter in March, Kevin mentioned: “The entire time we have been capturing, we saved going, ‘God, that is simply so nice. That is so nice.’”
He added: “After we have been in prep and as quickly as we have been all 4 of us collectively on web site, it was higher than I might have imagined.”
