Kevin Bacon's doing his part to spread awareness amid the coronavirus pandemic.
"We have exchanged emails and they are very much in my thoughts," Bacon noted."Crazy about the guy. He is not just an incredible actor, but a real great man, and Rita as well. I think it was interesting how somebody that is so beloved was so early [diagnosed]. I think now we are at a place where we are going to [hear about] a lot of people that are well known [getting coronavirus].
"But the way that he came right out with it, which by the way I don't think he needed to do, but he said, 'This is a real thing,' and he also said, 'We are going to be OK,' was very powerful and beautiful move on his part," he continued."I'm thinking about him everyday."If you are using ad-blocking software, please disable it and reload the page.Bacon and Hanks starred together in Ron Howard's 1995 film dramatization of the Apollo 13 lunar mission.
"We felt that we were making something special, and I think that we were really super tapped into NASA and that story and the history of the space program," Bacon said when asked if he knew then how impactful the movie would be at the time."We could feel actual astronauts getting excited about the movie that we were making. Hanks, I think he learned so much about the space program. I think he could fly the shuttle, honestly. He would just rattle this stuff off, it blew my mind.
"And Bill Paxton, the late great Bill Paxton, was also really really, super super into it," the actor recalled."It did feel like Ron was making something that was really gonna last. I was just digging around in my basement recently and found this behind-the-scenes footage of us on the Zero-G airplane, also known as the vomit comet, and I had all the footage from it digitized, because I didn’t know if anyone else had seen it. But it’s really wild...
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