Kick off your picket shoes! Kevin Bacon cuts loose, channels “Footloose” to celebrate end of actors' strike

Hollywood's allowed to dance again.

Kevin Bacon's got something to dance about.

The still incredibly spry 65-year-old actor took to his favorite barn to dance out his feelings — just as he did nearly 40 years ago in Footloose — to commemorate the end of the months-long SAG-AFTRA strike.

Bacon shared a video of him pulling off the classic routine (flawlessly, by the way) from the 1984 musical drama Thursday on social media, adding: "Strike over!"

In the Herbert Ross film, Bacon played big-city teen Ren McCormack, who moves to the small town of Bomont, where its stick-in-the-mud local minster, the Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), has instituted a ban on dancing.

But you can't keep the kids down, especially not with a Kenny Loggins-heavy soundtrack at play, and soon the whole town's cutting loose — footloose.

Meanwhile, it's nice to see Bacon embracing his iconic film, having previously rejected the fame that came with the box office hit over fears of not being taken seriously as an actor.

And yet it's no wonder Bacon is feeling footloose and fancy-free, what with the strike coming to an end after 118 days — the longest work stoppage in SAG-AFTRA history.

Now Bacon and an entire industry can get back to dancing in their respective barns. Everybody cut, everybody cut!

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