By Noah Rayman
Kevin Bacon is still dancing, thirty years after he starred in the 1984 movie Footloose.
A guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Bacon recreated his moves from the beloved 1980s pic, after Fallon declared that dancing on the show was illegal.
“Dancing is illegal?” said an upset Bacon, in a prerecorded sketch shown after the star of The Following “refused” to come out on stage. “This is the Tonight Show. There has to be dancing.”
And there was.
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