Footloose Star Lori Singer Reveals Her Idea for a Sequel with Kevin Bacon: ‘You Never Know’ (Exclusive)

To celebrate four decades FreeLori Singer shares her idea for a sequel to the classic ’80s film.

In the 1984 film, the 66-year-old Singer played rebellious small-town teenager Ariel Moore opposite Kevin Bacon, who played Ren McCormack, a big-city boy who helps her convince her hometown and reverend father (John Lithgow) to reverse the dance ban.

Now, in honor of the film’s 40th anniversary, the actress reveals to PEOPLE that she stuck with the concept for the film’s next chapter Free talk for years.

“I don’t know if Kevin even remembers this, but I actually had some idea where Ariel grows up and goes to New York where she wanted to be, and Kevin stays there,” Singer tells PEOPLE. “Kevin stays in town, and he becomes a bigger deal in town. He becomes the town attorney there or whatever.”

Lori Singer and Kevin Bacon in the movie ‘Footloose’.

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In Singer’s sequel concept, Ariel and Ren meet again in her hometown of Beaumont under tragic circumstances.

“She’s coming back because her father is sick,” Singer tells PEOPLE. “I mean, I played with that idea years ago and we talked about it and joked about it.”

“But it was just something for us to meet, talk and laugh,” she adds.

When it comes down to it, though, Singer isn’t sure she wants a sequel — and neither is Bacon, 65.

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Answering a fan’s question about a potential sequel to his Six degrees with Kevin Bacon podcast earlier this month, the actor said: “Never say never, [but] I think that would be a disaster.”

Similarly, Singer says the original Herb Ross-directed film — which was already remade in 2011 — and its message were “pure,” and the sequel could change that.

“I don’t know, it was so pure that it was that I kind of agree with Kevin,” she tells PEOPLE. “He is very pure in what he expresses, but you never know.”

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Elsewhere in her chat with PEOPLE, Singer recalled what it was like meeting Bacon for the film for the first time — “electric.”

“It’s just one of those things when you have someone like Herb Ross as a director, and he’s been with so many great actors … he was already very established, so he knew what he was doing,” she adds.

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