What’s your Bacon Number?

What is your kevin bacon numberI heard about this game many years back and I always thought how amazing it was, that one statement turned into a phenomenon called the Bacon Number!

Kevin Bacon, in a 1994 Premiere interview for the film The River Wild, while talking about his fame and career, comments that he’s worked with everybody in Hollywood or someone who’s worked with them.

It was then, that 3 students got together and created a game called “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”. According to this game, Kevin Bacon was at the “center of the universe” and the “Bacon number” of an actor or actress is the number of degrees of separation they have from Bacon, as defined by the game. The higher the Bacon number, the farther away from Kevin Bacon the actor is.

Did you know that Pope John Paul II had a “Bacon Number” of 3?

Step 1 - Pope John Paul II was in Padre Pio — Tra cielo e terra (2000) with Giovanni Lombardo Radice.

Step 2 - Giovanni Lombardo Radice was in The Omen (2006) with Vee Vimolmal

Step 3 - Vee Vimolmal was in Where the Truth Lies (2005) with Kevin Bacon.

So what’s your Bacon Number?

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June 19, 2008 | Filed Under General, People 
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5 Responses to “What’s your Bacon Number?”

  1. Monkeyface on June 20th, 2008 1:53 pm

    Believe it or not, my “Bacon Number” is 4:

    I was on an episode of ECW Wrestling back in the late 90s with Rob Van Dam
    RVD was on an episode of V.I.P. with Pamela Anderson
    Pamela Anderson was in Barb Wire with Clint Howard
    Clint Howard was in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon

    Pretty crazy!!

  2. Reel Ninja on June 20th, 2008 4:44 pm

    Wow Monkeyface, that is so cool :) I might now know you in person but we are blog buddies so I guess our Bacon Number is 5..lol

  3. Jaden @ Screenwriting for Hollywood on June 21st, 2008 1:38 am

    I am 1 degree of separation. Ever so briefly, I am in “Milk” which stars Sean Penn (coming out 2009). And Sean Penn is in “Mystic River” with Kevin Bacon.

  4. Cris on June 21st, 2008 1:16 pm

    No idea. But like somebody above if I tried with blogs
    Step 1: Guy called Nikhil had commented in my blog
    Step 2: Same guy Nikhil had commented in another guy, Jammy’s blog
    Step 3: Jammy wrote in his blog he chats with you and had a link to yours, so I reached yours.

    That makes it 3!

  5. Reel Ninja on July 2nd, 2008 11:17 pm

    Eureka! I have found my Bacon number!! I am a 5th degree of separation… except that I am not an actor… though the Reel Ninja might disagree… apparently I have long been denied my recognition as Best Drama Queen.

    me
    My Aunt Pat (wardrobe designer department on Stargate)
    Richard Dean Anderson (Stargate & MacGyver)
    Teri Hatcher (MacGyver 1986-1990 & The Big Picture 1989)
    Kevin Bacon (The Big Picture 1989)

    –RNW

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