The musician opened up about growing up with famous parents and revealed which of his dad’s movies he has seen

NEED TO KNOW

• Travis Bacon admitted that he’s never seen Footloose, the movie that made his father, Kevin Bacon, a major star
• He tried to recall Footloose’s plot as being about dancing in a town
• Travis joined his sister, Sosie Bacon, on the Nepo, Baby! podcast to discuss their famous parents

Kevin Bacon may have danced his way into movie history with Footloose, but don’t expect his son Travis Bacon to know much about the iconic film. In fact, the musician has never even seen it.

During a Nov. 5 conversation with Nepo, Baby! hosts Jake Robards and Emily Wachtel, Travis, 37, opened up alongside his sister, Sosie Bacon, about growing up with famous parents. While he’s enjoyed watching some of his father’s projects over the years, Travis admitted that the 1984 classic isn’t one of them.

“I definitely was always interested in the music stuff my pops was doing,” he said, recalling how he was particularly excited to see Kevin, 68, in the 2004 thriller Death Sentence. 

“And I remember actually being like really hyped to see that and really excited,” Travis continued. “You know, like, ‘Wow, that’s tight.’ That’s a movie I would watch anyway and now it’s my pops with the shotgun and doing the thing.”

But Footloose? Not so much.

Travis confessed to never having seen it, before attempting to recall the movie’s premise. “Something about dancing in a town?”

Footloose follows Ren McCormack (Bacon), a teenager who moves from Chicago to a small town where dancing and rock music have been banned following a tragic accident. Determined to challenge the restrictive rules, Ren sets out to bring dancing back to the community, much to the dismay of the town’s conservative leadership.

And Travis wasn’t the only one with a somewhat unexpected favorite among his family’s filmography. 

Robards, whose father was the late actor Jason Robards, also shared that he had a particular childhood attachment to one of his dad’s movies.

“I haven’t seen a lot of my dad’s movies, but I didn’t care about anything he did except for this movie called Raise the Titanic because I was obsessed with the ship, the Titanic,” he explained.

The 1980 adventure film follows a group trying to recover the famous ship from the ocean floor. While it wasn’t exactly a box office success, Jake had a different perspective on the movie growing up.

“It was my favorite movie as a kid, but it’s like one of the biggest bombs of the ‘80s, of all time,” he said.

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The conversation also turned to another Jason Robards film, Parenthood, which Travis said he loved. Jake, however, recalled that he wasn’t allowed to watch it when it first came out.

“I love that movie,” Travis said.

“My parents, they didn’t let me watch it when it came out,” Jake explained. “They’re like, ‘It’s not for kids and you can’t see it,’ So, I didn’t see it until way later.”

Kevin and Kyra Sedgwick have been married since 1988 and share two children: Travis and Sosie, 34.

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