'Guardians of the Galaxy' director James Gunn says Kevin Bacon 'doesn't like Christmas' - Insider

• James Gunn said that Kevin Bacon does not similar Christmas.
• Bacon appears successful Gunn's latest special, "The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special."
• However, Gunn told Variety that Bacon's location successful the movie is much decorated than his accustomed home.

"The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special" manager James Gunn said that Kevin Bacon does not similar Christmas arsenic overmuch arsenic his quality successful the caller Disney+ special.

Bacon plays himself successful the latest Marvel special, which premieres connected Disney+ Friday, arsenic Drax (Dave Bautista) and Mantis (Pom Klementieff) instrumentality him crossed the postulation arsenic a acquisition for their leader, Star-Lord (Chris Pratt).

During a caller interrogation with Variety, Gunn was asked however the existent Bacon compares to however helium is portrayed successful the movie.

"Kevin doesn't similar Christmas," Gunn replied. "That portion was hilarious to me. I person Kevin showing up connected acceptable successful what is expected to beryllium his house, and it's filled with each these tremendous inflatables. It looks similar Santa Claus vomited each implicit the Bacon house, which looks thing similar Kevin Bacon's location successful immoderate way."

The Marvel manager continued: "It's truthful LA-looking, which is conscionable not Kevin. But Kevin is this ace bully guy. He's truthful talented, truthful professional, truthful egoless, and conscionable a truly benignant person. That portion of the quality is conscionable similar him."

This is not Bacon's archetypal quality successful a Marvel movie; the histrion played "X-Men: First Class" villain Sebastian Shaw. However, it is unclear whether that movie is connected to the main Marvel Cinematic Universe aft "X-Men" prima Patrick Stewart appeared successful "Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness."

Gunn said that helium didn't person immoderate treatment astir whether determination are 2 Kevin Bacons roaming astir the Marvel universe.

"One of the things that Kevin Feige has truly impressed upon maine successful moving the MCU is that what matters astir is the task close successful beforehand of him," Gunn said. "You whitethorn person a program astir however you privation to bash thing down the road, but if it screws up the happening close successful beforehand of you, past it doesn't work."

He added: "The champion happening for the vacation peculiar is Kevin Bacon, and if that means that Kevin Bacon is simply a antithetic quality aboriginal connected successful the MCU, it doesn't truly matter. It's not real. None of this is real. He was the cleanable idiosyncratic to formed arsenic Kevin Bacon. If we had formed John Schneider arsenic Kevin Bacon, it wouldn't person worked arsenic well."

"The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special" premieres connected Disney+ connected Friday.