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Did Kevin Bacon Really Turn Down Patrick Swayze’s ‘Ghost’ Role?
Kevin Bacon is addressing rumors he turned down the lead role in ‘Ghost,’ the blockbuster movie that starred Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg
Kevin Bacon.Leon Bennett/Getty ImagesIn an interview with Business Insider published on Wednesday, July 10, Bacon, 66, laid rest to a longstanding rumor that he turned down the lead role of Sam Wheat in 1990’s Ghost. In 2015, Ghost screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin revealed that the script was sent out to “every major actor in Hollywood who was hot at the time,” but “everybody” turned it down. Patrick Swayze and Vincent Schiavelli in Ghost.Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection“ Harrison Ford said, ‘I read this thing three times and I still don’t get it,’” Rubin told Vanity Fair.
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