‘Footloose’ star Lori Singer choreographed ‘extremely intense’ domestic violence scene
01.03.2024 - 16:35
/ nypost.com
“Footloose” followed Ren McCormack (Bacon), a Chicago teen who moved to a small town where the local minister (John Lithgow) put a ban on dancing. Singer co-starred as Ariel Moore, the minister’s rebellious daughter who was Ren’s love interest. Ariel also had a boyfriend, Chuck Cranston (Jim Youngs), who physically assaults her because he’s jealous about her feelings for Ren, before they break up.
“I choreographed a lot of the physical stuff,” Singer exclusively told The Post. “I grew up with three brothers, I spent part of my life in Texas. I’ve had to actually fight a few times …Anyway, I’ve had some rough stuff happen, because we traveled a lot growing up, my family,” she continued.
“I think a lot of actors have had that experience that you have to reinvent yourself every time. All that fighting stuff … I’ve actually experienced a certain amount of it.”She gushed that Ross “trusted his actors” on set as they collaborated together.“Herb would do something very interesting. He’d say, ‘How do you feel this? What do you think might happen if you guys were here?’ And he’d step back,” she explained.Ariel and Chuck’s brutal scene included Singer at one point taking a bat and destroying his pickup truck.“We rehearsed weeks before we shot, so it would play in our minds to have been lived when we got there.
And it was choreographed that way, comes from the bleachers. And I said, ‘No, this is how I’d break the truck up. I break it up like this.’ I think at first they thought I was just going to break the windshield, but I said, ‘No, no, I go boom, boom.'”“I had a feeling of what I would do in that character,” she went on, “and Herb let me do it.”Singer also felt comfortable with Youngs despite their rough sequence “fighting on
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