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Kevin Bacon refuses to do the ‘Footloose’ dance like a “trained monkey”. The 65-year-old actor’s breakthrough role came as Ben McCormack in the 1984 musical, and four decades later he admitted while people “probably would” still ask him to do the film’s signature routine at weddings, he wouldn’t know where to start. He told the Metro newspaper’s 60 Seconds column: “When people say, ‘Do the Footloose dance’, I don’t know what the Footloose dance is. I am not a trained monkey.” The Hollywood star recalled being asked to perform the memorable dance during an event honouring ‘Footloose’ writer Dea…

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