Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick slam drag show bans as 'bad karma' in dance video: Watch

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Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are taking a stand – and giving a shake – for equality.

The married actors showed their support for the drag community, amid the passage of legislation targeting the presence of drag performers in public spaces, in an Instagram video posted Sunday. The couple can be seen wearing matching T-shirts that read “Drag is an art and drag is a right” while dancing to the Taylor Swift track “Karma,” taken from her latest album “Midnights.”

Drag bans are bad karma,” Bacon wrote, sharing a link for his campaign supporting the ACLU’s Drag Defense Fund. “Drag performers and the LGBTQIA+ community need our help. … #DragIsARight”

In the video, Bacon, 64, and Sedgwick, 57, step in rhythm toward the camera and twirl before showing off the pro-drag message on their graphic tees.

“Bigotry will not be tolerated,” Bacon added. “Please be kind to one another in the comments.”

Bacon and Sedgwick are the latest in a line of stars, including Madonna, Maren Morris and Lizzo, who have shown solidarity with the drag community after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law a bill restricting drag performances on public property, which the state's legislature passed last month. Its language prohibits "adult-oriented" entertainment deemed harmful to children, including by "male and female impersonators."

"These so-called laws to protect our children are unfounded and pathetic,” Madonna said in a statement last month. “Anyone with half a brain knows not to (mess) with a drag queen.”

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Sedgwick and Bacon have great chemistry both on and offscreen, but the actress revealed sparks failed to ignite when the couple had to film intimate scenes together in an early ‘90s film.

They co-starred in the 1991 romantic comedy “Pyrates,” which follows a couple that develops pyrokinetic abilities after having sex. In an interview with Yahoo Entertainment published Friday, Sedgwick said she and Bacon initially were unfazed by playing a couple.

We didn't think, 'Is it weird for us to do a sex comedy?' ” Sedgwick recalled to the outlet. “At the time, we were newly married and had our first kid, so the idea of us playing this couple that has such great sex that the room spontaneously bursts into flame was really funny."

But Sedgwick said blurring the lines between art and reality on set turned out to be “much harder” than she had anticipated.

"It's weird, because we're always like, 'Is this real or is it not?' As an actor, you sometimes have these dreams when you start a job where you're sleeping and they're filming you,” Sedgwick said. “With ‘Pyrates,’ I was (sleeping) with my husband and they were filming it. It's like, 'This can't be real – I'm having a dream.' "

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Contributing: Dave Paulson, Nashville Tennessean

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick show support for drag queens in dance video