{"id":224758,"date":"2026-03-28T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/224758\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:15:07","slug":"san-antonio-child-actor-gets-role-in-kevin-bacons-family-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/224758\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio child actor gets role in Kevin Bacon&#8217;s &#8216;Family Movie&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A San Antonio child actor made her big screen debut this month \u2014 alongside movie star Kevin Bacon.<\/p>\n<p>Emery Kaler plays Young Ula, the daughter of a movie director played by Bacon in &#8220;Family Movie,&#8221; which was released on March 13. The horror film&#8217;s premise: Jack Smith, played by Bacon, is directing a low-budget movie starring members of his own family. Everything changes when they find a dead body on set and have to cover up a murder to keep on filming.<\/p>\n<p>Kaler, 9, is from San Antonio and now lives in Boerne, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/entertainment\/article\/kevin-bacon-family-movie-emery-kaler-22091667.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interview with MySA<\/a>. While Kaler has just a few lines in the movie, she described Bacon, the &#8220;Footloose&#8221; and &#8220;Apollo 13&#8221; star, as &#8220;really nice and sweet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her father, John Kaler, told MySA that he recorded her audition and sent it to the casting director. Kaler told the outlet that while she hasn&#8217;t watched many horror movies before, but her role includes one particularly violent scene.<\/p>\n<p>The movie premiered at \u00a02026 South by Southwest&#8217;s film festival in Austin earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The film \u2014 as hinted at by the title \u2014 is a family affair. Bacon co-directed it with his wife, and it stars two of his kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Antonio child actor made her big screen debut this month \u2014 alongside movie star Kevin Bacon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-224758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}