How ‘Footloose’ co-stars Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer really met — and pulled off their steamy first kiss
21.02.2024 - 14:23
/ nypost.com
“Footloose” star Lori Singer still remembers her first meeting and famous kiss scene with Kevin Bacon — 40 years after making the 1984 hit film. “What happened is they had a long lens. It was probably 12 feet, if there is such a thing as a lens like that.
And they were way far away from us, like a football stadium away,” Singer, 66, told The Post. “Kevin and I had total privacy [for the kiss]. We just lived the scene the best way that we knew how.
And, with all of our emotions and feelings from everything that had happened, that genuinely was the first time we kissed.” Directed by Herbert Ross, “Footloose” followed Ren McCormack (Bacon), a Chicago teen who moved to a small town where the local minister (John Lithgow) put a ban on dancing. Singer co-starred as Ariel Moore, the minister’s rebellious daughter who was Ren’s love interest. “They have tremendous sound stages at Paramount.
And I’d climbed way up the catwalk. I don’t know how many feet up that is, but just at that moment, Kevin walked in the big doors of the warehouse,” Singer said of her first glance at Bacon, 65. “I saw him from up there.
I just watched him walk, because I did want to see him from a different perspective. I did want to be able to watch him for a moment.”After she climbed down, she said, “We shook hands and it was just magnetic at that moment. It was like electricity.
Very much like in the film when we first see each other. I think it just built from there. There was a lot of daredevil stuff.
A lot of things happening and building to the kiss. That’s why it was so real, I think because the time and the true experiences built to that moment. “And then Rick Wade, the cinematographer, and Herb had the ability to capture the electricity onscreen,
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