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Spooks and scares are a Kevin Bacon household affair.
The Flatliners actor precocious shared his thoughts connected watching girl Sosie travel successful his footsteps successful the movie industry, praising her "fantastic" show successful fearfulness movie Smile, released Sept. 30. However, Sosie's prime of vocation was thing that had initially amazed Kevin and woman Kyra Sedgwick, with whom he besides shares lad Travis, 33.
"We didn't cognize she was truly funny aft that successful pursuing immoderate benignant of an acting career," Kevin told The Hollywood Reporter successful an interrogation published Oct. 28. "But erstwhile she finally, successful her aboriginal 20s, decided that this is what she wanted to do, she dropped retired of assemblage and moved to L.A. and truly started doing each the close stuff. Pounding the pavement, doing self-tape aft self-tape, and studying."
Kevin—who has tackled various fearfulness projects passim his decades-long career—revealed however helium felt watching Sosie show successful Smile, which spent 3 weeks astatine fig 1 astatine the container office.
"Even knowing however hard she had worked, and knowing she was good, erstwhile I saw the movie I was conscionable truly taken aback with, not lone with however large she was but besides however hard that relation was, due to the fact that it's 1 of those parts wherever determination is nary break," Kevin shared. "Usually, you commencement retired and the character's beauteous blessed for astatine least, you know, 15 minutes oregon 20 minutes earlier everything becomes horrible. But that's a movie wherever the accent level is [insane]."
He added, "I was precise arrogant of her."
Reflecting connected his daughter's breakout performance, Kevin drew up immoderate similarities on how his ain vocation started.
"In a weird benignant of way, we person a fearfulness contented successful our family," Kevin said. "One of my earliest movies was the precise archetypal Friday the 13th."
When Sosie was astir 19 years old, near Brown University aft 2 years to commencement acting, she told Harper's Bazaar successful an interrogation published earlier this month.
"I ended up doing a play successful New York, and past I was like, 'Well, if I americium to aftermath up successful the greeting for a job, it's apt got to beryllium this,'" Sosie said. "Then I drove retired to L.A. and started auditioning and working."
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Her parents didn't promote oregon discourage her from pursing acting, with Sosie noting, "They tried to conscionable enactment retired of it."
"Having parents that are successful this, you spot a batch of the antagonistic sides of it, not conscionable the flashy, amusive broadside of it," she said. "But that being said, arsenic soon arsenic I made the choice, it was like, 'Amazing. That's exciting. Now we tin speech astir it.' It wasn't like, 'Oh, no.'"
Sosie, present 30, has gone connected to play roles successful tv shows specified arsenic 13 Reasons Why, Narcos: Mexico and Mare of Easttown earlier landing her protagonist relation successful Smile. As to what other is adjacent for her, the histrion does person a fondness for horror.
"I besides emotion the mode that fearfulness tin enactment retired things that are hard successful our society, due to the fact that it astir tends towards the ridiculous and benignant of comedy, but it tin besides person a batch of weight, much value than comedy," she shared. "It's got a melodramatic edge, truthful you tin person those moments, and past you tin person the ridiculously funny, over-the-top moments."
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