Kevin Bacon says male actors should go full frontal
Actor Kevin Bacon has released an amusing online public service announcement video which encourages more male nudity across the board in Hollywood films and television programs.
Published on Mashable, the Footloose star – who famously went full frontal for a shower scene in the 1997 erotic drama Wild Things – suggests the amount of female nudity in Hollywood needs to be evened out with some more shots of the male derrière (and then some).
“In so many films and TV shows we see much gratuitous female nudity and that’s not okay,” he said.
“Well it’s okay, but it’s not fair to actresses, and it’s not fair to actors, because we want to be naked too.
“Gentlemen, it’s time to free the bacon. And by bacon of course I mean your wiener, your balls, and your butt.”
Drawing upon HBO’s Game of Thrones to illustrate his very important community message, with its “three sex scenes an episode”, Bacon questions how difficult it would be to throw in “one or two wieners every couple of minutes”.
“This is an issue of gender equality. Let me be on the show. C’mon, I’ll be a naked wizard or something. I’ve done it before,” he suggests.
“Have you seen Wild Things? I was super naked in that. It was awesome. Matt Dillon was there. He saw my wiener. Hollow Man, I had an infrared wiener in that.”
Bacon adds despite full frontal nudity clauses in every film he signs up for, editors usually manage to cover him up.
“They say, ‘Kevin, you don’t need to be naked in this, it doesn’t make sense,” he said.
“Kevin, it’s an animated film, you’re in a voice over booth, please put on your pants. Kevin, you’re not even in this movie, why are you here and why are you naked?”
The outpouring of celebrity endorsements for #freethebacon was kicked off by singer Lenny Kravitz….
Lenny Kravitz: Kicking off #freethebacon with the force of a thousand suns.
— Elena Sheppard (@eleshepp) August 4, 2015
So, how can you help this noble cause?
Bacon encourages people to tweet the hashtag #FreetheBacon if they want to see more male nudity on film and TV.
Words by TROY NANKERVIS.