Simulating the weightlessness of space for the 1995 classic came with some particularly nasty challenges
Bacon says he took anti-nausea medication while taking flights in the KC-135, which the production used to simulate the weightlessness of space. But the craft was dubbed the “Vomit Comet” for a reason: “I did get thrown up on,” he says. “One of the cameramen threw up on me. What’s interesting about being thrown up on when it’s zero-G is that it hovers there for a while.
“We would do about 40 parabolas in the morning, come down and have lunch, and do about 40 parabolas in the afternoon,” the actor recalls. “But it was a giant Mexican fest with burritos and chili con carne, and all this really spicy food. And I was like, ‘Can we just calm down on the lunch thing?’ I was afraid I was going to be wearing it that afternoon.”That’s a particularly nasty notion, but that’s showbiz, baby. It’s all for the love of the game.
“We couldn’t really move during lighting set-ups and camera set-ups because it was a real ordeal to get us out of the spacesuits,” Bacon continues. “So, Ron was there, and me and Bill [Paxton] and Tom, and we would just have these conversations that God, if anybody recorded these, there was some funny shit. We’d have 15-20 minutes or a half an hour to just bullshit. We didn’t have anything else to do but yak to each other, and it was very funny, good times.
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