One of Kevin Bacon’s upcoming projects will combine two of his favorite things: his family and the horror genre.
The actor, 66, is set to star alongside wife Kyra Sedgwick and their two children — Travis, 35, and Sosie, 33 — in their new film Family Movie. The horror-comedy will follow a family of filmmakers whose slasher film goes off the rails after a real body is discovered on set. In addition to starring, Bacon and Sedgwick, 59, will co-direct the project.
“This is a dream,” Bacon exclusively told Us Weekly of working with his relatives at the Monday, March 31, New York City premiere of his new show, The Bondsman. “We just love hanging out with our kids. But the crazy thing is, not all the time, but every once in a while, they like to hang out with us, and so that’s the s*** right there because you raise them and a lot of times, it doesn’t translate into an ongoing, lasting, close relationship.”
Bacon said that he and his “very close” family of four never take their strong bond “for granted,” adding, “We all work in separate things. Travis works, Kyra works separately, I work separately, Sosie’s always working. Just the idea [of being] able to work together is gold.”
Bacon and Sedgwick tied the knot in 1988 and welcomed Travis and Sosie in 1989 and 1992, respectively. Both of their kids have followed them into the entertainment industry, with Travis working as a musician, composer and producer. Sosie, meanwhile, has built herself an impressive acting career with roles in projects such as 13 Reasons Why, Mare of Easttown, Smile and Hazard.
Despite being one of Hollywood’s longest-lasting couples, Bacon and Sedgwick continue to keep each other humble through humor. In a recent Instagram video, Bacon declared that their date night was “all about” Sedgwick — all while standing underneath a Times Square billboard for The Bondsman.
“Listen, I love hanging out with her,” he gushed to Us on Monday. “She’s my partner. At this point, there’s not that much left to say. We’re a team. We always have been, and we always will be.”
While Sedgwick is Bacon’s partner off screen, Jennifer Nettles fills the role of Bacon’s partner on-screen on their new show The Bondsman, and the two got to collaborate on new music for the series. “We got together in New York. We wrote a song. It got rejected, but we liked writing,” he explained. “So, we wrote a number of other songs for the show, and a couple of them made it in there. And I wrote one with my brother. I wrote one by myself. She wrote one by herself. And then all of a sudden, we turned around and we had eight songs. And we thought, ‘Well, let’s just cut them.’”
The Prime Video series follows a bounty hunter named Hub (Bacon), who is brought back from the dead on the condition that he kills demons who escaped from hell for the devil. The failure to complete his supernatural duties could result in deadly consequences.
Unlike his character, Bacon told Us he doesn’t “want to come back for another life,” but rather “live this one right here, right now.” He added, “If everybody else thought more about the fact that they had a responsibility to live this life in this moment right now, I think the world would be a better place.”
Bacon was also excited to return to the horror genre after getting one of his first breakout roles in 1980’s Friday the 13th, which turns 45 years old this year.
“I love horror. I always have, but the horror that I sort of grew up on was Rosemary’s Baby and The Shining and The Exorcist, and Don’t Look Now,” he shared. “But Friday the 13th was great. Unfortunately, I died, so they couldn’t bring me back for any of the sequels.”
The Bondsman premieres on Prime Video Thursday, April 3.
With reporting by Nikaline McCarley
