Kevin Bacon Tells His Kids “Don’t Be Actors!”

By |2011-06-14T01:00:49-07:00June 14th, 2011|Categories: CHILD ACTORS, Child Stars, Former Child Stars, THE BUZZ|Tags: , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Kevin Bacon Tells His Kids “Don’t Be Actors!”

Hollywood power duo Kevin Bacon (Crazy, Stupid Love; Mystic River) and Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), married since 1988, actively discouraged their children (son Travis, now 21, and daughter Sosie, 19) from acting while growing up. Why?  To protect them from the "lifetime of scrutiny and rejection" which Bacon and Sedgwick have been subject to. The former Footloose teen star Bacon