WHAT’S your Bacon Number?
That’s not how many rashers you have with your Sunday morning fry-up although it’s four for me, depending on how many slices of black pudding are being offered.
Your Bacon Number is something very different.
It’s based on the old concept of Six Degrees of Separation that any two people on earth are six links apart.
You get your Bacon Number by counting how many people there are between you and Hollywood celebrity Kevin Bacon.
There’s no reason other than, well, why not? Everyone likes a bit of Bacon.
Previously my Bacon Number was 2. I was in the movie The Day After Tomorrow with American actress Emmy Possum and she was in Mystic River with Kevin.
But I had a chat with Kevin about the DVD release of the fantastic thriller Cop Car, in which he stars.
It really is a brilliant wee film about two young boys who stumble upon an abandoned police car.
Kevin plays the corrupt sheriff who tries to get the car back check the movie out if you get the chance, it’s full of suspense.
He’s starred in the likes of Footloose, Apollo 13 and hit TV series The Following but this might be a career best for Kevin.
He plays quite a reserved character, so I wondered what drew him to the role.
“Even though there are no lines, the writers somehow painted a picture of the way they envisioned the movie.
“I didn’t even check my emails halfway through. It was easy to say yes!”
What a moustache Kevin sports in this movie too. It’s not a pencil-thin one, or a twiddly moustache it’s a full soup-strainer.
“It’s a cultural American phenomenon men who are attached to the Old West, such as Wyatt Earp and General Custer. They hold on to the idea of the time.”
I drew a comparison to the old Glasgow police when I was growing up it seemed new officers were handed a moustache with their uniforms.
“Oh really?” replied Kevin he seemed genuinely interested.
“I’ll remember that if I have to play a Glaswegian police officer.”
How impressive is that? Kevin Bacon knows people from Glasgow are called Glaswegians.
Kevin told me how he can grow a moustache but struggleswith his chest hair!
“My son was bustin’ my chops about it,” he laughed.
“He can grow hair on his chest but I can’t.
“He can’t grow any hair on the side of his face, though.
“He does have hair on the top of his head, though and he should be happy with that!”
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