Kevin Bacon Looks Back at TREMORS With Fondness as a Kind of Turning Point in His Career

Actor Kevin Bacon is known for so many great movies in his career, namely Footloose, Flatliners, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Sleepers, Mystic River, Crazy Stupid Love., and so many more, so it was fun to see him go through some of the highlights and some of the lesser-known movies in a recent look back interview with EW.

One of the movies he mentions is the sci-fi horror comedy, Tremors, from 1990. The movie was a bomb at the box office, but in the years after its release, it proved to be a cult-classic that fans loved to watch! I watched it as a kid, and I thought it was a ton of fun. Bacon wasn’t so sure about taking the role at first, but he was at a point in his life where he really needed the work, and now he looks back with fondness. EW reports:

"I had begrudgingly done it," he admits. "I was broke, I had a kid on the way, and my mom had gotten sick, and I felt like I didn't have a choice — I was like, 'Jesus, this is a movie about underground monsters, how far I've fallen.'" However, once production started, Bacon describes it as a "magical time," working with Fred Ward and welcoming his first child. Plus, puppets! "The super cool thing about Tremors is that Tremors is all practical effects," he says. "It was all guys in puppets or people with things on their hands, and wires being pulled. It was ingenious. Acting with a puppet requires some acting, but we're professional pretenders."

It’s cool to hear what a fun time that movie ended up being to make. I think that’s why fans really enjoyed it. The actors got to see what they were being tormented by, and they made us believe it as well. I haven’t seen that movie in decades. I think I need to go check it out again!