‘Footloose’ at 40: Lori Singer Recalls Intense Stunts, Slaps, and Skinny-Dipping

Four decades after she starred in the toe-tapping classic Footloose, Lori Singer can still remember the time she first laid eyes on Kevin Bacon.

“Every moment was magic from the get-go. The second we said hello and shook hands, it was almost electric,” she tells The Daily Beast of meeting her then-24-year-old co-star on a Paramount sound stage, before the cameras started rolling. “We felt a real excitement between our characters and from that moment on, it was like a wild rollercoaster.”

Turning 40 this year, Footloose starred Singer as Ariel, the rebellious daughter of John Lithgow’s Reverend Shaw Moore, a man so bonded to the Bible that he’s plunged his small Utah town into an oppressive place where even dancing is outlawed. But his super-conservative outlook is soon challenged when Bacon’s slick city kid Ren McCormack rolls into town and sets his sights on loosening Bomont’s bolts by giving prom night the green light.

Read more at The Daily Beast.