As It Happens6:30These students convinced Kevin Bacon to revisit his Footloose stomping grounds — a Utah high school
Students at Payson High School in Payson, Utah, are bringing home the Bacon — Kevin Bacon, that is.
The star of the 1984 hit Footloose has agreed to return to the high school where the movie was filmed before the building is torn down after this school year.
“I get speechless every time I think about it. Like, it’s crazy. I don’t even have words to express,” Grade 10 student Lauren Krout told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. “I just can’t believe we did it.”
Bacon made the announcement
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