A celebrity couple it turns out we all love is Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. They’ve been together forever (legit going on forty years! That is infinity in celebrity time!), they’re lowkey, unproblematic, they have a farm full of cute animals they regularly feature on Instagram.
They also have two (grown) kids, Sosie and Travis Bacon, who are technically nepo babies but are not annoying about it, probably because they do good work. I maintain people don’t care as much about nepotism in Hollywood when the work is good (see also: Margaret Qualley). Sosie Bacon has been in a lot of stuff, including Mare of Easttown, and had a breakout moment with Smile a couple years ago. Travis Bacon primarily works as a composer and musician, but he will step in front of cameras for a new family project called, aptly, Family Movie.
Kyra and Kevin are going to co-direct and star alongside their kids as a family making a horror movie together, only to find someone is killing people in real life and they have to cover up the murders in order to keep making their movie. I’m into it, I love a horror comedy, and you never know when you’re in for a Tucker & Dale vs. Evil situation (that movie is GREAT). I just hope the family movie curse doesn’t strike the Sedgwicks.
You know the family movie curse, when a couple makes a movie together and then busts up. Famous examples include Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in 2015’s By the Sea (broke up in 2016), and Noel Marshall and Tippi Hedren in 1981’s Roar (divorced in 1982, after an elephant used in the film fractured Tippi’s ankle and she contracted gangrene, never mind the time a lion bit her head, or the fifty stitches her daughter, Melanie Griffith, got after being mauled by a lioness. Roar is wild). Anyway, here’s hoping Family Movie is more Tucker & Dale, less Roar.
