Footloose

When Kevin Bacon got the call that he landed what would be his breakout role as Ren McCormak in the 1984 film Footloose, there had to have been a small part ...

We’ll be combing the audience shots for John Lithgow. [Kimmel’s](https://www.cracked.com/article_36811_my-pillow-guy-volunteers-to-be-kimmel-punchline.html) suggestion that the movie Footloose may have been an act of fate — maybe if Bacon also had a DJ career under the stage name [Tremors](https://www.cracked.com/article_35755_the-real-life-origins-of-15-movie-monsters.html), he’d accept that there’s someone looking out for him upstairs. [Kevin Bacon](https://www.cracked.com/article_36086_kevin-bacon-pays-weddings-djs-not-to-play-footloose.html) got the call that he landed what would be his breakout role as Ren McCormak in the 1984 film [Footloose](https://www.cracked.com/article_32537_the-ultimate-dance-off-flashdance-footloose-or-dirty-dancing.html), there had to have been a small part of him that thought it was all an impressively elaborate prank.