Bacon appeared on TODAY on April 3 to promote his new Prime Video series, “The Bondsman.” Coincidentally, students from Payson High School, in Payson, Utah — where “Footloose” was filmed — happened to be on the Plaza. They paid tribute to Bacon by performing some of the sweet dance moves he did as Ren McCormack in the iconic ‘80s flick.

Kevin Bacon says Footloose fame nearly drove him to quit acting. He escaped to a farm with Kyra Sedgwick, but she convinced him city life and his career were worth returning to. She was right.