--- title: Kevin Bacon Had to Rent 'Footloose' to Learn 'Tonight Show' Moves description: Nope, Kevin Bacon does not own a copy of his own movie canonical: https://time.com/3717639/kevin-bacon-footloose-jimmy-fallon/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-21T15:46:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:04.381Z og:title: Kevin Bacon Admits He Had to Rent 'Footloose' to Learn His Famous 'Tonight Show' Dance Moves og:description: Nope, Kevin Bacon does not own a copy of his own movie og:url: https://time.com/3717639/kevin-bacon-footloose-jimmy-fallon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf57a5b85a7d3f981/6987806355a859faa0a85f2e/screen-shot-2015-02-21-at-10-13-05-am.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-02-21 at 10.13.05 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kevin Bacon Admits He Had to Rent 'Footloose' to Learn His Famous 'Tonight Show' Dance Moves twitter:description: Nope, Kevin Bacon does not own a copy of his own movie twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf57a5b85a7d3f981/6987806355a859faa0a85f2e/screen-shot-2015-02-21-at-10-13-05-am.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kevin Bacon Admits He Had to Rent _Footloose_ to Learn His Famous _Tonight Show_ Dance Moves by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 21, 2015 3:46 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 21, 2015 3:46 PM UTC Kevin Bacon dropped by _The Tonight Show_ on Friday, where the night’s events included a rousing [game of Pictionary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMI9pTql0Ls&list=UU8-Th83bH%5FthdKZDJCrn88g) with Don Cheadle, Nick Jonas and host Jimmy Fallon. But the actor also took a few minutes to reminisce about the last time he appeared on the show, when he took part in [an epic _Footloose_ tribute](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T2FpCDlyNg) in May. The elaborate four-minute bit of course included tons of dancing—and now, Bacon admits that he actually had to rent the movie to re-learn all the steps. It’s a bit disappointing that Bacon does not know all his _Footloose_ moves by heart and does not practice them every night before bed, but we _guess_ that’s understandable. The real surprise here is that he does not own a copy of _Footloose._ “You don’t own your own movies?” Fallon asks, with his signature blend of shock and giddiness. “Come on, you have to!” Watch the full clip below: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3717639/kevin-bacon-footloose-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3717639/kevin-bacon-footloose-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Kevin Bacon Admits He Had to Rent Footloose to Learn His Famous Tonight Show Dance Moves","datePublished":"2015-02-21T15:46:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:04.381Z","description":"Nope, Kevin Bacon does not own a copy of his own movie","url":"https://time.com/3717639/kevin-bacon-footloose-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf57a5b85a7d3f981/6987806355a859faa0a85f2e/screen-shot-2015-02-21-at-10-13-05-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf57a5b85a7d3f981/6987806355a859faa0a85f2e/screen-shot-2015-02-21-at-10-13-05-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-02-21 at 10.13.05 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3717639/kevin-bacon-footloose-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Kevin Bacon Admits He Had to Rent Footloose to Learn His Famous Tonight Show Dance Moves"}}]}] ```