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Kevin Bacon recreated his Footloose dance to celebrate the actors’ strike ending

Kevin Bacon sure seems … Footloose … and fancy-free about the actors’ strike ending.

The Screen Actors Guild strike officially ended on Thursday, and actor Kevin Bacon found himself doing a very familiar dance to celebrate the occasion.

Bacon posted a delightful video on social media of him dancing in a barn to Kenny Loggins’ theme song from Footloose, giving movie fans a throwback to the 1984 film that Bacon starred in.

While Bacon wasn’t officially reprising his role of rebellious dancing teen Ren McCormack, he did show off the same boot-scootin’ boogie moves that helped christen his career way back when.

We’re all relieved that Hollywood can get back on track, and Bacon’s nostalgic dance moves are a really nice way to ring in that return.

Hey, maybe Bacon will come back one day for another Footloose movie and help a bunch of teens stuck in a rigid small town break out of their shells and learn to cut loose and dance a little?

Well, that would be kind of silly, but since Hollywood is back, even unnecessary sequels can return back to production!

That’s something worth dancing about.

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The 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike: Everything you need to know

The actors have gone on strike. Here’s what you need to know about it.

Hollywood came to a virtual standstill on Thursday as the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the largest union of working actors in the industry, declared that it will be going on strike for the first time since 1986.

That strike only lasted 14 hours, with one predating it in 1980 lasting for three months. The actors and the writers have not gone on strike together since 1960.

Since the strike has become official, Deadpool 3 has shut down production and cast members in next week’s Oppenheimer have stopped promoting that film’s pending release.

SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher gave an impassioned speech on Thursday preempting the strike, one sparked by concerns over fair compensation for all working actors and questions surrounding the future of streaming platforms (including residuals) and artificial intelligence.

“The entire business model has been changed by streaming, digital, A.I. This is a moment of history that is a moment of truth,” Drescher shared on Thursday. “If we don’t stand tall right now, we are all going to be in trouble. We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines and big business, who cares more about Wall Street than you and your family.”

While no one knows how long this strike will last, the combination of SAG-AFTRA and the Writers’ Guild of America petitioning for change at the same time makes this a historic, and potentially lengthy, moment in Hollywood’s history.

Here’s a primer on why we’re here, how it will go and what’s next.