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Kevin Bacon: I could never have made it as a Marine
posted by halboedeker on Jan 10, 2009 10:51:59 AM
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LOS ANGELES -- Kevin Bacon has played Marines in "A Few Good Men," "Frost/Nixon" and HBO's upcoming "Taking Chance."
But don't read anything into that group of roles.
"The one thing I will say is that there is no part of me that ever considered being a Marine, could make it in the Marine Corps," Bacon told TV critics. "I am definitely not that guy. I'm not that guy to throw myself in harm's way. I would never make it through boot camp. It's all acting."
"Taking Chance," which premieres Feb. 21, gives Bacon a special acting assignment. He plays Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, the retried Marine who co-wrote the film. It's a true story about Strobl's accompanying home the remains of a Marine killed in Iraq in 2004.
Bacon wanted to capture Strobl's look.
"I spent time with Mike and was interested certainly as much in the external part of who he is, the way he holds himself and looks and all the gestures and all those things, as I was just in internally what was sort of happening for him during this process," Bacon said.
"So that was extremely important to me. With the amount of movies that I've done, I think this is maybe one of two or three where I've actually played a real person. I don't tend to get parts playing real characters from history. So that was a real challenge."
Ellie
posted by halboedeker on Jan 10, 2009 10:51:59 AM
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LOS ANGELES -- Kevin Bacon has played Marines in "A Few Good Men," "Frost/Nixon" and HBO's upcoming "Taking Chance."
But don't read anything into that group of roles.
"The one thing I will say is that there is no part of me that ever considered being a Marine, could make it in the Marine Corps," Bacon told TV critics. "I am definitely not that guy. I'm not that guy to throw myself in harm's way. I would never make it through boot camp. It's all acting."
"Taking Chance," which premieres Feb. 21, gives Bacon a special acting assignment. He plays Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, the retried Marine who co-wrote the film. It's a true story about Strobl's accompanying home the remains of a Marine killed in Iraq in 2004.
Bacon wanted to capture Strobl's look.
"I spent time with Mike and was interested certainly as much in the external part of who he is, the way he holds himself and looks and all the gestures and all those things, as I was just in internally what was sort of happening for him during this process," Bacon said.
"So that was extremely important to me. With the amount of movies that I've done, I think this is maybe one of two or three where I've actually played a real person. I don't tend to get parts playing real characters from history. So that was a real challenge."
Ellie