These days, though, she’s committed to full groupie status, digging the expression of pure joy her husband has when performing. Plus, of course, as she told Good Housekeeping, “He’s sexy.”
Thumbing their nose at the idea that couples shouldn’t work together, the pair seem most content when they’re doing just that, co-starring in Pyrates, Murder in the First, Loverboy, The Woodsman and more and even taking a stab at directing each other—an idea that sounds rife for conflict but suits them just fine.
But, as one might expect from a lasting relationship between two in-demand actors, they’ve also learned how to cope when projects keep them thousands of miles apart.
It was Bacon, after all, who convinced his bride to accept one of her more career-defining gigs as strong-willed deputy police chief Brenda Leigh Johnson in TNT’s The Closer, even though it meant spending six months out of the year in L.A., a prospect that simply crushed her. (A suggested move to the West Coast was shot down by their then-teenagers within seconds.)