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Kevin Bacon was a rising 24-year-old actor when he decided to go back to high school.
Not for real, but for a part. To prepare for what would become his breakout role as new-kid high schooler Ren McCormack in the 1984 movie musical "Footloose," Bacon went undercover as a transfer student at Payson High School in Payson, Utah.
He immediately felt out of place — not because he was actually an actor nearly a decade older than his fellow students, but simply because small-town high schoolers don't like being friendly to the new kid.