What's your "Bacon Number?"
That is what everyone is asking themselves at this very moment.
The Bacon number doesn't literally mean how much piece of bacon you are in the past number of days or whatever, it means how many times a celebrity has been with actor Kevin Bacon in movies.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the search engine has launched a new tool known as the Bacon number. By typing in any actor's name followed by the words "Bacon number," Google will tell you the degree of separation between that actress/actor and Bacon.
According to CNBC, this is a play on the John Guare play "Six Degrees of Separation," where any two people in the world are no more than six acquaintances or links from another person. In this case, it's within six degrees, or connections, of the actor Kevin Bacon, who has been in so many movies that pretty much anyone in Hollywood can be connected to him within six degrees.
CNBC described:
The origins of the game may stem back to a January 1994 interview Bacon did with "Premiere" magazine, where he famously said that he's worked with pretty much everyone in Hollywood or someone who's worked with that person. Like many other great technology success stories, the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" was started by a bunch of college students. Shortly after the Bacon interview aired, three students at Albright College were watching what could arguably be Bacon's most famous movie, "Footloose," and came up with the game, which they turned into their own "stupid party trick." That turned into a board game, a book, a charitable organization and now - a Google tool.
Let's figure out some famous Bacon numbers of stars who ended up on the Books & Review website or who are just uberly famous in the media right now.
Kristen Stewart (Twilight)
Her Bacon number is 2. She appeared with actor Michael Sheen in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" movie. Sheen appeared in the movie "Frost/Nixon" with Bacon.
Robert Pattinson (Twilight)
His number is 2. It's for the same reason for Stewart (Pattinson = Sheen = Bacon)
Jennifer Lawrence (Hunger Games)
Her Bacon number is 1. She appeared with Bacon in "X-Men: First Class."
Charlize Theron (Snow White & the Huntsman)
Her Bacon number is a 1. She appeared with Bacon in "Trapped."
Angelina Jolie (Salt)
Her Bacon number is 2. She appeared in "Wanted" with James McAvoy, and McAvoy appeared with Bacon in "X-Men: First Class."
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
His Bacon number is 4. Zuckerberg appeared in "Our Time" with Ehren McGhehey. McGhehey appeared in "Jackass: Number Two" with Johnny Knoxville. Knoxville appeared in "Life Without Dick" with Sarah Jessica Parker. Parker starred with Bacon in "Footloose."
So, what is YOUR favorite celebrity's Bacon number? Let us know in your comments!
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