-Kevin Bacon welcome to "The Tonight Show:
At Home Edition."
I really, really appreciate you
coming on the show
because you've been on throughout the years,
and I think the last time I saw you
was right before the quarantine happened.
Is that right? -It was. It was, like,
just a few days and I remember --
well, first off, let me just say that you guys
have been doing an amazing job,
and it's really fun to see what your possibilities are,
the way you extend your possibilities
with your limited palette, shall we say.
You're painting some great pictures.
And, you know, I remember that we were at that
awkward kind of stage where we knew that there was
something going on but we were still, like, not sure
if it was like hugging or -- I think we were, you know,
elbow bumping, and there was like that strange stage
before everything just completely shut down.
So it's incredible to experience this
and to go through this historically,
not just with the COVID-19,
but clearly seeing the protests
and the -- and what's going on is -- you know,
for an old guy like me, I was born in 1958.
And to witness the passion
of the young people across the world for social justice,
it leaves me speechless,
which is probably a good idea because I think it's a good time
for old white guys like me to just shut up and listen.
So speechless is probably a good choice.
-[ Chuckles ] Yeah.
Have you been reading up
or watching anything or learning any -- trying to --
-Yeah, I mean I really have been trying to take this
as a time to first admit
that I don't have a full understanding
of the life experience
of people that are different than me.
And I will never have a full understanding of that,
and that that's something that you need --
and I'll tell you, Jimmy, I'm one of these people, like,
when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything,
and I thought I knew everything about acting,
everything about music, everything about politics,
everything about people.
I thought I could always understand, you know,
what it was like to be other people that I was --
you know, had a lot of compassion.
And basically I thought I just knew it all.
I was a know-it-all. -Yeah.
-And the older I've gotten, the more I realized
how much there is still to learn,
so this has been a perfect example of a good time
for me to stop and learn and listen and read --
and just try to gain some kind of deeper understanding
about people who --
here's the thing.
I'll never understand it 'cause when I walk out of the house,
I'm white.
And to not have that experience and privilege
is something that I want to just kind of educate myself on.
-Yeah, I've been finding myself just trying to talk
to as many people as I possibly can,
and uncomfortable as it is, but it's -- you know,
it's almost, you know, you could tell the anger
and the -- you know, it's in the air
and people just have had enough.
And you see these protests, and I think it's --
it's eye-opening because the people I've talked to
have been fighting for civil rights
for as long as I can --
you know, they know and they've never seen anything like this,
and they -- a lot of the comments that different people
have been saying to me is, not only is it --
it's beautiful and it's big and it's peaceful,
but it's the different ages and the different races.
They've never seen anything like this, and it's --
it means that something's happening.
I think change is coming.
I hope it is. -Me too.
-Are you -- are you with Kyra right now?
Are you getting to know each other after --
-[ Laughs ] Oh, yeah.
Well, you know, 30 years, you think you know everything
there is to know about somebody, but --
but, yeah, I mean, listen, we have a very small bubble.
It's really just me and her and the dog right now,
and -- and, um...
we are waking up with a lot of gratitude that we have a house
and a roof over our heads and food to eat,
and that we have each other,
which is really -- I know there's a lot of people
that I know, members of my family and a lot of other people
that I know that are in isolation completely alone
and that's got to be a really, really difficult thing.
-Let's talk about something you've done, you're making.
You're back to the horror/thriller.
-Yeah, I love horror movies.
I like to watch them and, you know, I'm really more into
horror movies that have real strong character development.
You know, "Friday the 13th," as successful as it was,
I kind of think of that more of a slasher movie.
-Slasher movie, yeah, yeah, of course.
-And of course, I had the classic horror movie death
because I had sex with a girl and smoked a joint
and you just knew it was over more me.
-It was unbel -- you couldn't do better.
This one is more like a thriller, but I love it.
And it's perfect kind of timing weirdly to this moment
because you're stuck in a house.
-Yeah.
Amanda Seyfried and I are a couple, and we are --
have only been married a few years.
We have a little daughter.
She is my second wife,
and I have a lot of paranoia
about being married to a woman that is way too young for me.
And generationally, she's spending a lot of time
on her cellphone,
and I don't really do that much kind of texting.
And she's also an actress,
so she's having to go off to work
and be in these kind of intimate situations with people.
And the paranoia is definitely catching up with me
at the beginning of the movie.
And we decide to just go off and have this --
this kind of vacation before she starts work,
and we get this house in Wales, with just the three of us,
and it's scary, you know.
But it's a lot about sort of, like, you know,
paranoia and also a very dark past
that I'm kind of like struggling with, and...
-Yeah. -I like --
I like these movies for an acting --
for an actor, they're great, because they're --
you're asked to be in these kind of life-or-death situations,
which is a very, very actable thing, you know.
You just have to be careful that you don't only have
one or two scared faces.
You know, you have to think about that
when you're making a horror movie, because people
are going to be -- if like every scene
you do is like this... -[ Laughs ]
-You got to think of another way to do it.
-Yeah, that's why I couldn't do that.
Yeah, I would be such a read immediately.
They'd be like, oh, something's going to happen to me.
Can't be that frightened.
You're like, "You're just ordering breakfast."
"Oh, I know. I just want to make sure I got the right choice."
But just the title -- the title, "You Should Have Left,"
that's -- already I'm freaked out.
I go, yeah.
Someone says, "You should have left,"
that scares me right there no matter where -- what's --
I'm like, "Oh, my goodness." It is on-demand June 18th.
And I do want to say thanks again because, you know,
it's tough to talk about a project or anything now
and try to tell everyone,
but a lot of people worked on this and so, you know,
I want people to know that it's out.
I also want to mention all the charitable stuff
you've been doing.
SixDegrees.org.
You've been doing this for a while,
I would say when I first started "late night," right?
-Yeah. -How many years
have you been doing this?
-We launched SixDegrees.org in 2007.
It was kind of the idea of trying to think of the idea
of connectivity, and we launched
this idea pretty much right when the pandemic started
of I stay home for.
And it was really very, very powerful
in ways that I never really expected
and a lot of people really picked up on it.
And it was the idea that you're not staying home
just for yourself, you're staying home to
try to limit the spread of the virus
and to try to keep other people safe.
Pretty quickly after that I realized that
there are a lot of people who weren't able to stay home,
and so one of the new -- our newer launches is a thing
called "I feed the front" where you can donate
and local restaurants will provide meals
for front-line workers who are --
they are working in hospitals
and health care centers, exactly.
And you can kind of support a small restaurant
that is struggling as well as feed these heroes.
So it's -- -Heroes that are unbelievable.
Every time I see whatever you're doing now, I just applaud you.
And I think it is so cool what you're doing, and Kyra as well.
-Thank you.
-I appreciate you coming on the show as always.
And, yeah, I would love to see you in person again, man,
and we'll air fist bump or air elbow bump
or whatever we can do. -I can't wait.
I look forward to it. -You're the best, bud.
Thank you so much, Kevin. -Thanks so much, Jimmy.