Kevin Bacon is one of the few actors who sees what they want and goes after it. It’s not uncommon for him to state what production he’d love to join or how he’d love to continue working on a project. Currently, the Golden Globe Award winner is the leading man in The Bondsman. The Amazon Prime Video

series is an action horror that follows Bacon as Hub Halloran, a bounty hunter who comes back from the dead with a second chance at love, life, and an underrated music career. He’s a guy who aims to right his wrongs, which many viewers could relate to.
Although Halloran gets to live again, he discovers that his second life is not all sunshine and rainbows, as it has a demonic twist. With only eight episodes in the first season, there’s still a lot of room for more gore, music, and possessed ex-lovers. Now, during an interview with Collider, Bacon has revealed that a sophomore season of the Prime series would be a “dream.”

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“The dream is to do another season. I would love to do another season. When it comes to building an ending, you want to have something that is going to make people say, ‘Come on, we got to find out what happens here.’ With everything that is going on, one of the main things that is driving Hub is how much he still loves Maryanne and misses their relationship and love affair, but also the music that they made together and how those two things overlapped. So, to be left with the idea that an escaped demon has now possessed my ex-wife and that I have to continue to be around her and I can’t kill her because she’s inside this woman that I love so dearly, it’s a great dilemma for Hub. It’s a really good, cool way to end the show.”

Kevin Bacon Describes His ‘The Bondsman’ Character as a “Man Child”

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The Bondsman premiered on April 3, 2025. The introductory episode detailed how Hub was ambushed and murdered, which turns out to be a murder-for-hire deal by a former Boston mobster “Lucky” Callahan, who is dating his estranged wife. In the end, Hub finds out from Midge, his new handler from the Pot O’Gold corporation (Satan’s front company on Earth), that he now works (as a bounty hunter) for the devil. The first episode alone was enough for critics on Rotten Tomatoes to praise the series, and the show is now sitting at an approval rating of 83%.
There’s nothing better than an actor who can properly describe the character they’re portraying; it shows that the role means something to them and that they want the audience to truly understand the character. During an interview with Amazon, Bacon described his character as a “man child” with a lot of growing up to do.

He’s a very fascinating character because he’s very much of a bad*ss. He’s an a** kicker who is hunting demons, but he is also kind of a man child who’s fundamentally not grown up even at this age. He has a lot of darkness and regret and is struggling with his own demons — it’s not an accident that he’s got internal demons and external demons that are both challenging to have.

Source: Collider

The Bondsman

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Release Date

April 3, 2025

Network

Prime Video