

We link two actors together if they appeared together in the same movie. The three Albright College students went on The Jon Stewart Show in 1994 to explain how they came to find that "Kevin Bacon is the center of the whole acting universe" and show off their skills at making the connections on the fly. Six degrees of separation In the Kevin Bacon Game, it is postulated that the center of the Hollywood universe is Kevin Bacon. It is also known as the six handshakes rule.
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That idea moved into the pop culture mainstream when it spawned a popular play and movie by the same name. As a result, a chain of 'friend of a friend' statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, It’s a variation on six degrees of separation which posits that everyone in the world is no more than six acquaintance links from anyone else on Earth. The game began with Brian Turtle, Craig Fass and Mike Ginelli, when the three friends were in college, according to NPR. Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other.
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION KEVIN BACON TV
Unfortunately, the website only seems to link people via films, not accounting for TV roles. However many connections it takes to link the actor is that actor's "Bacon Number." One of the most comprehensive ways to search any given actor's "Bacon Number" is through The Oracle of Bacon website, which allows visitors to input any actor and draw the most direct line.įor example, Tom Cruise's Bacon Number is one, because the two co-starred in A Few Good Men, but Chris Pratt's Bacon Number is two, because he was in Jennifer's Body with Amanda Seyfried, who was in You Should Have Left with Bacon. Pick an actor, and find a way to connect them to Bacon through the fewest number of movies or overlapping co-stars. If you're unfamiliar, the game is simple.

But because of his versatility as an actor and wide array of roles, Bacon has found himself at the center of the long-beloved trivia game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," which has inspired movie buffs (and, presumably, Bacon diehards) to find links between Bacon and virtually everyone else in Hollywood, using as few connections as possible.
