Defying Hollywood’s odds! Kevin Bacon Kyra Sedgwick have been married for more than 30 years — and appear to be more in love than ever.
The twosome first crossed paths when Bacon, who is seven years older than Sedgwick, was doing a play in the ‘70s.
“A little girl was in there who had just seen the matinee, and her brother said, ‘You liked that actor, go tell him you liked him,’ and it was Kyra,” he recalled on Craig Ferguson on The Late Late Show2014. “She was a little girl, yeah, she was 12 years old.”
They reunited ten years later for the PBS film, 1987. Lemon Sky.
“He definitely wasn’t my type,” Sedgwick told Redbook 2008. “In fact, I vividly remember looking at his butt when he walked away after we first met and thinking, ‘Well, I guess some girls like that.’”
The Get closerActress had a change in heart and married the FootlooseStar on September 4, 1998
“When we first got together, she was more the messy one. However, I was a complete slob when I left home. I lived in a pigsty. My first apartment was a roach-filled disaster,” Bacon told GlamourIn 2019. “Through the years I’ve tried to get the chaos out of [my home]Because my work life is chaotic. She’s moved in that direction too. I still don’t really like to make the bed, because we’re going to get in it in another 12 hours, but she really, really likes a made bed. I’ll do it, but she does a little bit more of that, and I do a little more fixing stuff.”
The couple welcomed Travis, their son, in 1989, and Sosie, their daughter in 1992.
“She’s made a lot more sacrifices than I’ve made. Kyra felt really strongly that, when she started to have children, she needed to be there for them,” the actor told the magazine. “In many cases, because of the kids, she would make decisions careerwise that weren’t the best for her career. We wanted to raise our children in New York so we stayed. However, there was more work in Los Angeles. Then, when The CloserIt was a great experience [in 2005] — I don’t even look at this as a sacrifice — but the kids were still in high school or junior high and she had this opportunity to go out to California and to be a lead in a TV show. I said, ‘Listen, I’ll stay with the kids.’”
During the interview, Sedgwick spoke highly of Bacon, pointing out that he was the one who encouraged Sedgwick to get into directing.
“It really is amazing that he saw in me something that I just didn’t have the confidence to wrap my arms around,” she explained. “It really wouldn’t have happened unless he kept pounding the table. So when the chance presented itself to direct Story of a GirlI raised my hand, and the other person also raised theirs. It’s been really a life-changer for me. It is a wonderful experience. I feel like it’s something I’ve always been meant to do, and he saw that before I did. I think that’s amazing.”
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