Golden Globe winner Kevin Bacon sat down with HFPA journalist Barbara Gasser and talked about how he met his wife and his latest role on the TV show City on a Hill – among many other things.“Sometimes when you do a television series for over multiple episodes, especially if it’s a crime show, there’s certain episodes, certain scenes where you kind of figure that you’re just advancing the plot as opposed to actually delving into character stuff but with this show, my character is so fascinating to me.”

Bacon explains how small details make the show – which takes place in Boston – believable.  He remembers his first time in the city which was also when he first met his wife Kyra Sedgwick. “I was doing a play no, I wasn’t doing the play, there was a play called Lemon Sky that was running in New York at the Second Stage Theater in the late 1980s. Jeff Daniels was the lead and Cynthia Nixon was also in the play.” A filmmaker from Boston named Jan Egleson, who was working at a public television station in Boston, wanted to do a film version of the play. But neither Daniels or Nixon were available so Bacon and Sedgwick got the parts. ‘I had kind of known her, I had seen her around town a little bit but didn’t really know her very well. We ended up living in Cambridge and going across the bridge to shoot this television movie in Boston in February. It was cold, freezing, and we fell in love and we got married probably a year later or something like that.”

They have been married for over 30 years. “I have very, very fond feelings about Boston, clearly.”

Listen to the podcast and hear what he has to say about filming in Wales and traveling across the United States with his dogs; whether he has ever seen ghosts or he believes in aliens; where he resides with his wife; how he feels about his character being unfaithful to his wife; how his opinion has changed about being a film actor and evolving to being a TV actor; how the character of Boston itself contributes to the show; how was it winning a Golden Globe and where he has his award; how someone should prepare for a Golden Globe speech; how was the beginning of his career and why he likes to watch the moon and the stars.