Actor Kevin Bacon has returned to the US highschool the place his film Footloose was filmed greater than 40 years in the past.
The 65-year-old visited Payson Excessive Faculty within the state of Utah to greet college students following a years-long marketing campaign which began on social media below the hashtag #BaconToPayson.
Based on information reviews final month, the varsity had gone Footloose-crazy – holding a Footloose film evening, staging a Footloose musical, renaming the annual Mr Payson pageant after the actor, and even holding a contest for essays persuading Bacon to go to.
The mission changed into a community-wide marketing campaign to accomplice with the actor’s charity, with college students serving to to place collectively 5,000 care packages for SixDegrees.
College students welcome Kevin Bacon. Pic: NBC
Kevin Bacon helps fill care packages for his charity. Pic: Jesse Sorenson/AP
And on Saturday, the actor got here to assist about 700 college students and 300 group members fill the care packages.
“You talked me into it,” he mentioned to the scholars.
“It is nice to see that form of dedication to something.
“I additionally assume that it is superb to see the facility that this film has needed to deliver folks collectively.”
In March, when he accepted the invitation to go to, he mentioned: “I’ve been so impressed with the whole lot that has been occurring there with this loopy thought to get me again, so thanks, thanks, and I am gonna come. I gotta come.”
Pic: NBC
In Footloose, Bacon performed a youngster from Chicago who moved to a small city and fought its ban on dancing.
The city of Payson, about 60 miles south of Salt Lake Metropolis, was the movie’s setting.
A few of its 21,000 residents keep in mind being extras and may level out elements of the city used within the movie.
On the finish of the day, Payson Excessive Faculty college students held their promenade.
It’s more likely to be the final promenade on the college earlier than its outdated buildings are torn down subsequent 12 months.
The theme of the promenade? Footloose, after all.
