--- title: Kevin Bacon Was Once Beaten Up With His Own Shoes description: The actor visited Conan on Thursday canonical: https://time.com/3997948/kevin-bacon-shoes/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-14T13:49:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:10:56.591Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Kevin Bacon Was Once Beaten Up With His Own Shoes og:description: The actor visited Conan on Thursday og:url: https://time.com/3997948/kevin-bacon-shoes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt12fc0805016d7691/69885f422dce0182409e5139/kevin-bacon.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: "Cop Car" Premiere - BAMcinemaFest 2015 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kevin Bacon Was Once Beaten Up With His Own Shoes twitter:description: The actor visited Conan on Thursday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt12fc0805016d7691/69885f422dce0182409e5139/kevin-bacon.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kevin Bacon Was Once Beaten Up With His Own Shoes by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Aug 14, 2015 1:49 PM UTC  Kevin Bacon attends the premiere of "Cop Car" during BAMcinemaFest 2015 at the BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building on June 21, 2015 in New York City. Kevin Bacon attends the premiere of "Cop Car" during BAMcinemaFest 2015 at the BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building on June 21, 2015 in New York City.Rob Kim—Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Aug 14, 2015 1:49 PM UTC Kevin Bacon is known for his [dancing shoes](http://time.com/3717639/kevin-bacon-footloose-jimmy-fallon/), but as a child, those shoes were used against him—literally. The actor visited _Conan_ on Thursday and revealed that he was once beaten up with his own shoes when he was a kid. While walking home from a bowling alley in Philadelphia, he was chased down by muggers who made him hand over his money, then told him to take off his shoes to prove there wasn’t more cash hidden there. Before he knew it, he “realized that the guy was just beating me silly with my own shoes.” Bacon will soon appear in _Black Mass_, the movie about gangster Whitey Bulger, in theaters Sept. 18. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3997948/kevin-bacon-shoes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3997948/kevin-bacon-shoes/"},"headline":"Kevin Bacon Was Once Beaten Up With His Own Shoes","datePublished":"2015-08-14T13:49:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:10:56.591Z","description":"The actor visited Conan on Thursday","url":"https://time.com/3997948/kevin-bacon-shoes/","keywords":["celebrities","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt12fc0805016d7691/69885f422dce0182409e5139/kevin-bacon.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt12fc0805016d7691/69885f422dce0182409e5139/kevin-bacon.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Cop Car\" Premiere - BAMcinemaFest 2015","caption":"\"Cop Car\" Premiere - BAMcinemaFest 2015","creditText":"Rob Kim—Getty Images","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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3997948/kevin-bacon-shoes/","name":"Kevin Bacon Was Once Beaten Up With His Own Shoes"}}]}] ```