10 Actors Who Have Never Made A Sequel

5. Kevin Bacon

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Unless you count those annoying EE mobile ads he keeps popping up in, the great Kevin Bacon has remained sequel-less throughout his impressive career.

He's been in plenty of franchises of course, from Friday The 13th to Tremors to X-Men, but he's never returned to play any of these characters in a direct followup. The closest he came was Tremors: he did have the opportunity to return for Tremors 2, but he turned it down (and more recently, his Tremors TV pilot was dropped).

Overall, Bacon's filmography is full of dramatic fare that's hard to get sequels out of, which explains the lack of followups under his belt. Apollo 13, Frost/Nixon, JFK, and A Few Good Men don't exactly scream "BIG FRANCHISE!" so it's understandable why Bacon has never reprised one of his roles.

Despite not appearing in any sequels, he may have actually appeared in a cinematic universe - of sorts. Bacon himself has endorsed the fan theory that Tremors and Footloose exist in the same universe, calling it the "ultimate mashup."

And Mr. Bacon... we totally agree.

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