For Kevin Bacon, the 30th birthday of his Blockbuster film Apollo 13 Couldn’t have come to a more creepy time.
The Ron Howard-missed drama from 1995 about astronauts aboard the Moon-bound spacecraft from 1970 who experience an accident with mission control that clambers for a way to bring them back to Earth, had striking similarities with recent news about American Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. After having spent an unexpected nine months in space, the couple finally returned home on March 18, much longer than the originally planned eight days.
“I felt for those people,” that bacon, who plays the leading role The federal man On Prime Video, Yahoo told Entertainment. “Especially in their case, where you left and you thought you came back home immediately.”
“There must have been such a challenge for all involved,” he added. “I think that is part of what you signed up for and the courage needed to go there.”
While Bacon, who plays a demon premium hunter in the new horror-comic series that starts to stream on April 3, said he “doesn’t really think so much about my films, unless I am asked to remember,” he acknowledged that he had to do that more than a few times, given his long career.
“I made so many films that they keep these anniversaries. I just had the 40th of this and the 25th of that,” he said. “It’s like, there is a strange thing that happens in someone’s life, I think, as time goes on.”
In his newest project, about murdered Georgia Bounty Hub Halloran, who was cheerful by the devil to destroy demons and send them back to hell, Bacon also plays a father of a teenage son (Maxwell Jenkins) and ex-armor to Maryanne, played by Country singer-nettels. The man who has orchestrated his murder (Damon Herriman) now goes out with his ex and wants him out of the picture in every possible way.
The killing of demons in various bloody ways meant that Bacon, who is also an executive producer in the show, performed many of his own stunts – some he literally dived into.
“Fighting against the Demon Cheerleader Underwater is like, it’s one of those moments when you go:” God, I have the coolest performance in the world. This is so fun and weird and hard and physically and cold, “Bacon said, referring to one of his fighting scenes. “But at the end of the day, that feeling that between the woman who plays the cheerleader and our underwater camera and our regular crew and our directors and our stunt people, you go like:” Yes, we have done something unusual today. “
Music also plays a crucial role in the series. In addition to killing demons, who becomes a family affair with Hub’s mother (Beth Grant) together with his ex-wife and son, De Bounty Hunter also writes songs with Maryanne. Bacon itself is half of the Folk-Rock Duo the Bacon Brothers with his brother, Michael.
Nettles told Yahoo Entertainment that working with the Multi-Hyphenaat on the music of the show was a big sensation for her.
“It was very natural. It was very easy. He is a fantastic writer,” Nettles said about working with her co-star. “He is a great lyricist, storyteller and musician. And we really had a very natural and immediate flow with each other.”
Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Nettles in The federal man. (Tina Rowden/Amazon/MGM Studios/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Although nettles usually do not opt for ‘slasher’ things, she said they are part of those scenes in The federal man Made for some of her favorite moments on the set.
“When there is blood and gore and everything everywhere in all of us, as actors, that is of course a large part of the show,” said Nettles. “So people go crazy half the time. That is very, very nice.”
With scenes with pressed heads and crack photos held together by duct tape, Bacon said it is all part of the Mix of Horror and Comedy of the Show.
“The gore is so exaggerated that it leans a bit in the humor of what we are trying to do,” he said. “That’s just the tone of this show, which is just fun.”
All eight episodes of The federal man are available to stream on Prime Video on 3 April.
