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?

June 19, 2008 | Filed Under General, People | 5 Comments 
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