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Kevin Bacon Wants to Scare the S— Out of You: ‘The Bondsman’ Badass on Loving Horror and Season 2 Plans


Kevin Bacon stars in the new demon hunting series "The Bondsman" and talks about his love of horror and what a second season might look like.

Erik Oleson, who is the showrunner for “Bondsman” as well as an executive producer and writer, was thrilled to work on a series that had robust characters but was also looser and more lighthearted than some of his previous projects. The prolific actor has starred in scary movies throughout his career, from getting killed in the original 1980 “Friday the 13th” to toplining the franchise-launching “Tremors” in 1990; then starring in Paul Verhoeven’s 2000 film “Hollow Man” and last year’s trilogy-capping “MaXXXine,” and appearing in the upcoming “Toxic Avenger” reboot. “I didn’t think about the fact that it’s blurry because your eyes are open, so you’re swinging and taking hits but you don’t realize how much air you lose trying to do that.

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