Naturally, the conversation’s moderator wondered aloud at one point if Foley might get his chance to dance. “There’s a difference between ‘moves well, has rhythm’ and actually being a dancer, so it was a little daunting.” “It’s been amazing to jump into this world that I have revered from afar,” she said.
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Prior to being cast, Recasner had never danced professionally, and also had little TV experience. The stars of The Big Leap also talked about the dance experience they had prior to the show, sharing that Polo was the only one with real history in this arena. It was an incredible odyssey of a bonding experience for this group of people,” he explained, “and on top of it we made some creative discoveries, perhaps some things we wouldn’t have figured out otherwise in the rush of a normal pilot execution.” In some respects, Winer noted, production delays brought “unbelievable benefits.” Heldens and Winer later discussed the persistence they needed to get the show across the finish line, given that production on the pilot was shut down multiple times, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. You still like the guy somehow because it’s Scott.” “Because Scott is so innately a good guy, and because the audience has a lot of affection for other good guy roles, realized the meaner, the better. “Nick is a darker, meaner character than we’ve seen Scott play before,” Winer teased. Foley, meanwhile, plays the reality show’s producer Nick, who is in the middle of a custody battle, as the show opens. Recasner’s Gabby is a young mother who fails her first audition for the reality dance show, but eventually finds herself involved. Polo’s Julia is a woman reconnecting with herself through dance, in middle age. Like Blain, the three other cast members on hand offered up a little tease regarding the characters they play. “It’s funny on the one hand, but the drama was so rooted in reality without being hokey, or us breaking out into flash dances in the middle of a grocery store, which I would not be good at.” “This felt like a coming-of-age indie drama almost, which is generally my favorite genre,” he said. When Blain first read the script and discovered his character Reggie Sadler-a scandal-ridden football star who decides to compete on the dance show-he was immediately engaged, despite the fact that he felt more of “an affinity for film,” prior to his involvement with the show. “I think the idea of amateur dancers, people being bad at something before they’re good, is embarrassing and funny,” she said, “and great for drama and comedy.”
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It’s fine.'”įor Heldens, adapting the reality series was an opportunity to look at the stories of “people in transition” and “people trying,” which always resonate powerfully with her. “I called my agents and said, ‘Who do I have to cage fight but they said, ‘No, you can just have it.
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“I saw it and started seeing, ‘Oh, this is like The Full Monty and Silver Linings Playbook and Little Miss Sunshine,’” she recalled. Polo and Heldens appeared on ATX’s panel alongside director-EP Jason Winer, as well as cast members Scott Foley, Ser’Darius Blain and Simone Recasner.ĭuring the conversation moderated by People’s Breanne Heldman, which was preceded by a screening of the pilot, Heldens noted that the show is inspired by UK reality series Big Ballet, explaining what it was about that show that resonated with her in the first place.
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