That “Smile – Do you see it too?” is so successful and successful is also thanks to the lead actress Sosie Bacon. As a physician, Dr. Rose Cotter gives her an “excellent tour de force” in the so effective and gripping horror film, as we testify to her in our FILMSTARTS review. And when the name “Bacon” was heard, some might ring a bell. Yes, Sosie Bacon is actually the daughter of the Hollywood star Kevin Bacon. Also her mother Kyra Sedgwick is a successful actress.
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Now, one or the other might think that her path to the movie world was mapped out and that her parents, of course, provided her with the necessary B-rich jobs to get into “Smile.” But puff pastry. Born in 1992, Sosie Bacon made her first trips as a child actress only thanks to her parents. She made her film debut in her father’s directorial effort (2005’s Loverboy) and then went on to star in a multi-episode role in her mother’s hit series (2009’s The Closer). But that’s it for now…
Because Sosie Bacon went to college first and then joined an off-Broadway theater company to earn her stripes the traditional way. In her early twenties, she moved to Los Angeles to secure her roles on her own without the influence of her parents in numerous auditions. Kevin Bacon recently revealed this again when asked about his daughter’s success with “Smile”. :
“She moved to Los Angeles and really started doing the right things. She walked the streets, made one casting video after another and kept studying.”
It paid off. Sosie Bacon gradually got her first roles, albeit more in smaller indie films such as “Off Season” or supporting roles on TV (“Scream”). She didn’t really take off until 2018, when she starred in both the Netflix hit Dead Girls Don’t Lie and the critically acclaimed but despised HBO drama Here and Now. After appearing in supporting roles in other series including “Narcos: Mexico” on Netflix and the excellent HBO thriller drama “Mare of Easttown,” “Smile” should now be her breakthrough – and in doing so, she’s completely in the tradition of her own. father .
Bacon and horror – that fits
Today, many people probably know Kevin Bacon mainly from the trivia game “Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon”, which has long been a meme and states that you can connect all the actors with Kevin Bacon in up to six steps. And, of course, in 1984 he became a teenage star with the dance movie “Footloose”. But Bacon says he owes much of his career to one of his first films: In the slasher classic “Friday the 13th,” he played one of the teenage victims of the psychopathic Mrs. Voorhees, who helped him break through and led to further offers. .
Even after that, he remained faithful to the horror genre. “Tremors” starring him became a cult movie, and “They/Them” was a new slasher that was recently released in the US, but has not reached Germany yet.
In the aforementioned interview with the Kevin Bacon also points out this parallel with his daughter’s career: “In a weird way, we have a horror tradition in our family.”
Above all, Bacon is very proud of his daughter’s success, as he said in an interview with the repeatedly stressed: “Although I knew how hard she worked and how good she was, I was speechless when I saw the film [„Smile“] have seen. Not only because she was amazing, but also because this role is so difficult. It’s one of those parts where you don’t have a break. Usually you start and the character is happy for about 15 to 20 minutes before it gets awful. But in this movie, the stress level is insane. I was very proud of her.”
Not only Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgewick should be excitedly looking forward to Sosie Bacon’s future in Hollywood, but many fans of “Smile” too. Following the horror movie’s success, offers are likely to come in significantly larger than the indie movies and supporting TV roles Bacon has primarily starred in in recent years. Only the future will tell if she can also have as impressive a career as her parents.
Besides, a Marvel movie will soon prove what an iconic star Kevin Bacon is. In “The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special”, available November 25, 2022 on Disney+, the Guardians return to Earth to kidnap Kevin Bacon (playing themselves, of course):