“That was a completely re-shot ending.”
Those Sunday shoes almost weren’t kicked off at the end ofFootloose.
Turns out, an alternate ending saw a slow-motion fade-out after Bacon’s iconic “let’s dance!”
Lori Singer and Kevin Bacon in ‘Footloose’.Everett Collection
line in lieu of the musical number.
“I run into the place, I say, ‘Let’s dance!’
“There’s glitter falling from the sky, and everyone is just moving in slow motion.
This was the original ending.”
Luckily for everyone, that didn’t land well with early audiences.
“Everyone wants to get up and dance at the end of this movie.”
“We still kept the ‘Let’s dance!’
and me running down the stairs,” he says.
“But from that point on, it was choreographed and L.A. dancers were hired.
Chris Penn was out there and me and Lori [Singer].
We had to gather the cast together and make a run at get the hair to match.
That was a completely re-shot ending.”
And at last, everybody got the chance to cut footloose.
