Editing Kevin Bacon (section)

=== 2010s ===
[[file:Black Mass PC 05 (21267276740).jpg|thumb|Bacon at the [[Toronto Film Festival]] in 2015]]
On July 15, 2010, it was confirmed that Bacon would appear in [[Matthew Vaughn]]'s ''[[X-Men: First Class]]'' as mutant villain [[Sebastian Shaw (comics)|Sebastian Shaw]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Kit|first=Borys|date=July 15, 2010|title='Winter's Bone' star cast in 'X-Men: First Class' (exclusive)|work=Heat Vision|url=http://heatvision.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/07/winters-bone-star-cast-as-mystique-in-xmen-first-class.html|access-date=September 7, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100722010545/http://heatvision.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/07/winters-bone-star-cast-as-mystique-in-xmen-first-class.html|archive-date=July 22, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.forcesofgeek.com/2010/07/kevin-bacon-playing-sebastian-shaw-in-x.html |title=KEVIN BACON Playing SEBASTIAN SHAW in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS |publisher=forcesofgeek.com |date=July 16, 2010 |access-date=July 20, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100720060214/http://www.forcesofgeek.com/2010/07/kevin-bacon-playing-sebastian-shaw-in-x.html |archive-date=July 20, 2010 }}</ref> The film was released in 2011, the same year as the romantic comedy ''[[Crazy, Stupid, Love]]'', in which Kevin portrayed a co-worker involved in an affair.

In March 2012, Bacon was featured in a performance of [[Dustin Lance Black]]'s play, ''[[8 (play)|8]]'' – a staged reenactment of the [[Perry v. Brown|federal trial]] that overturned California's [[Proposition 8|Prop 8 ban]] on same-sex marriage – as Attorney [[Charles J. Cooper]].<ref name="8 the play">{{cite news |title='Glee' Stars 'Touched' By Pitt & Clooney's Support Of '8' |url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/jesse-tyler-ferguson/glee-stars-touched-by-brad-pitt-and-george-clooneys-support-of-8_article_61543|publisher=[[Access Hollywood]]. accesshollywood.com|access-date=March 18, 2012}}</ref> The production was held at the [[Wilshire Ebell Theatre]] and broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the [[American Foundation for Equal Rights]].<ref name="8 play video">{{cite web|title="8": A Play about the Fight for Marriage Equality| date=March 3, 2012 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlUG8F9uVgM| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/qlUG8F9uVgM| archive-date=December 11, 2021 | url-status=live|publisher=YouTube|access-date=March 18, 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=YouTube to broadcast Proposition 8 play live|url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/01/youtube-to-broadcast-proposition-8-play-live/|publisher=pinknews.co.uk|access-date=March 18, 2012}}</ref>

From 2013 to 2015, Bacon starred as Ryan Hardy in the FOX television series ''[[The Following]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Following|url=http://www.fox.com/the-following/|publisher=Fox|access-date=October 12, 2014}}</ref> In 2013, he won a [[Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television]] for that role.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kevin Bacon Gives Millennials a History Lesson About the '80s|date=March 11, 2014 |url=https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/kevin-bacon-gives-millennials-a-history-lesson-about-the--80s-162525915.html|publisher=yahoo news|access-date=October 12, 2014}}</ref> In 2015, he appeared in the crime film ''[[Black Mass (film)|Black Mass]]'', which starred [[Johnny Depp]].

In 2015, he said in a ''[[Huffington Post]]'' interview he would like to return to the [[Tremors (1990 film)|''Tremors'' franchise]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/kevin-bacon-tremors-tv-reboot_us_5655b651e4b072e9d1c13a11|title=Kevin Bacon Returns To 'Tremors' For TV Reboot|last=Delbyck|first=Cole|date=November 26, 2015|website=Huffington Post|access-date=February 3, 2018}}</ref> However, Bacon did not appear in ''[[Tremors 5: Bloodline]]'' (2015). He starred in ''[[Patriots Day (film)|Patriots Day]]'' in 2016, which was about the [[Boston Marathon bombing|2013 Boston Marathon bombing]].