Actor
Kevin Bacon said he used to despise a parlour game called '
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
' as he was trying his best to establish himself as a serious
actor
at the time.
The game was created in 1994 by a group of
Albright College
students around the time when the 58-year-old actor's
Hollywood
cult classic 'Footloose' had released.
Bacon said he hated being at the centre of a joke in those days, which was a play on words of the
John Guare
classic play ('Six Degrees of Separation').
"I hated it because I was trying so hard to be a serious actor and all of a sudden I was a parlour game. I thought it was really a joke at my expense," said Bacon.
The basic premise of the play was based on the existential theory that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else in the world by a chain of not more than six acquaintances, so the title 'Six Degrees of Separation'.
The actor added now it is a thing of the past and he does not "really feel that way anymore".