Kevin Bacon to Star in 'I Love Dick' Pilot From Jill Soloway

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Kevin Bacon is in negotiations to star in Jill Soloway‘s Amazon pilot “I Love Dick,” TheWrap has confirmed.

“The Following” star will join “Transparent” actress Kathryn Hahn in the comedy based on the 1997 novel by Chris Kraus. Soloway, the creator of Amazon’s “Transparent,” will direct the pilot, and Sarah Gubbins will write.

Set in the small town of Marfa, Texas, the series follows a husband and wife in a failing marriage who discover they are obsessed with the same man, a professor named Dick, played by Bacon.

Hahn will play the wife; the husband role has not yet been cast.

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Through that obsession, they go on a journey of self-discovery. Told in “Rashomon”-style shifts of POV, “I Love Dick” charts the unraveling of a marriage, the awakening of an artist and the reluctant deification of Bacon’s character.

Soloway will executive produce the series with Andrea Sperling under their Topple Productions banner and their overall deal with Amazon Studios. Gubbins will co-executive produce.

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Bacon most recently starred in Fox’s “The Following” for three seasons. He is also set to star in the films “The Darkness” in May and Mark Wahlberg‘s Boston bombing movie “Patriots’ Day” early next year. He is repped by WME.

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"At 70 years old, I was given the greatest role of my career. I was also given one of the greatest responsibilities of my personal life. So I have to do it right."
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"I think [the character Maura is] a better parent now than she was as Mort ... the lesson of being authentic and going for freedom generates a very good thing in the kids."
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"My acting teacher said, 'Act as if your life depends on it.' And here, lives are dependent on this."
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"There is phobia, there is hatred, there is absolute danger. We hear about it all the time. There's suicide."
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"I would say that I had a nervosity and an insistent self-tapping on my shoulder at all time ... When I come out to my eldest daughter [in the show], I was shaking. I was throw-up nervous ..."
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"The subject matter [of 'Transparent'] needs light and love and understanding."
"Did I know what I was getting into? You don't really think that way. But I remember many times talking to Jill. We'd be in the middle of a scene, and I would say, 'Oh, this is so big.'"

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