Given the song's huge success, it definitely got the 20-year old Courteney Cox noticed. Not long after she would secure a recurring role alongside Michael J. Fox in Family Ties as well as the fantasy adventure film Masters Of The Universe.
The Bruce Springsteen 'Dancing in the Dark' video was a tough audition. Before she even got to the set, Cox recalled the audition. That was nerve-wracking enough, but she made it through round one. “I auditioned for that just like any other commercial,” Cox said.
Courteney Cox has reflected on auditioning for her iconic cameo in Bruce Springsteen's 'Dancing In The Dark' video. The Friends star made a legendary appearance in the 1984 video, which saw Cox be invited on stage to dance with The Boss.
Courteney Cox's audition for Bruce Springsteen's music video was awkward to say the least. During a recent chat on SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show, the 57-year-old actress recalled auditioning for Springsteen's 1984 video for "Dancing in the Dark."
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Directed by Brian De Palma, the video was shot at the Saint Paul Civic Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on June 28 and 29, 1984. The first night was a pure video shoot, the second was on the opening date of the Born in the U.S.A. Tour.
After all, the Oscar was for Best Actress, not best dancer. Ms. Portman has made no secret of the fact that she had a dance double for the film. But co-star Mila Kunis has come to her defense, saying that Lane was merely a “safety net” for those times when she and Portman couldn't pull of the steps on their own.
The actress was barely 20 years old when she filmed the video, many years before she found fame via the hit sitcom Friends. The then-unknown Cox was selected for “Dancing in the Dark” by the clip's director, Brian De Palma.
Before Courteney Cox achieved fame from starring in Friends, the actress appeared as a starry eyed fan in Bruce Springsteen's video for his 1984 hit, “Dancing in the Dark.” In the visual, the rock star brought up a young Cox to dance with him on stage — a moment that she has yet to forget.
Before signing on as Monica Geller, Cox was actually offered the role of Rachel. And though the actress was interested in joining the show, she had another character in mind.
Jennifer Aniston aka Rachel Green: worth $320 million (£258.5m) Aniston is thought to be worth a whopping $320 million (£258.5m), making her the richest member of the Friends cast.
If you take a look at photos of the Friends star from back in the 90s, compared to now, it's easy to see she has undergone a whole range of different procedures. Courteney was once a massive fan of fillers, but in 2017 she announced that she had them all dissolved.
She recently told “Sunday Today” that her lack of memory put her at a disadvantage for last year's HBO Max “Friends” reunion (HBO Max is owned by CNN's parent company). “I should've watched all 10 seasons because when I did the reunion and was asked questions, I was like, 'I don't remember being there,'” Cox said.
After nearly six years together, Cox and Keaton reportedly split in July of 1995.
Cox, 49, broke her wrist after slipping and attempting to break her fall with her hand, reported Ace Showbiz. A local doctor was ordered to come to Cox's hotel room and he confirmed that her wrist was broken.
Janeane Garofalo turned down the part of Monica and instead ended up on Saturday Night Live for the show's infamous 1994-95 season. Although Garofalo's stint on SNL didn't work out, it's completely understandable why she chose the way she did.
After auditioning for the role of Rachel, the producers were believed to have had Jane Krakowski in mind for the role. Meanwhile, Ellen DeGeneres was actually the producers' first choice to play Phoebe, but she turned it down – although considering she's now a talk show queen, we reckon she's done alright.
Did you know Australian actor Louis Mandylor was almost cast as Joey Tribbiani instead of Matt LeBlanc? Well, this is 100% true. In fact, show creators Marta Kauffman and Kevin Bright spoke about it and admitted that the casting had come down to LeBlanc and Mandylor for the role in the series.
It was found that Cox had the MTHFR gene mutation, which dictated how her body methylates. It was a rare disorder in which her antibodies would attack the fetus.
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Navarro cheer coach and star of the Cheer docuseries on Netflix, Monica Aldama appeared in the 29th season of Dancing with the Stars and placed 10th.
Songfacts®: Springsteen wrote this about his difficulty writing a hit single and his frustration trying to write songs that will please people. His struggles pour out in the lyric, where he feels like a hired gun dying for some action.
April 15, 2011 — -- In her first television interview, Sarah Lane, the professional ballerina who was actress Natalie Portman's dance double in "Black Swan," accused filmmakers of lying about how much Lane danced in the film, and trying to cover it up.
This crazy dream is, however, the only reality of a 28-year-old Nina who is a ballerina for the New York City ballet company. Nina lives alone with her overprotective and sometimes overly invasive mother played by Barbara Hershey, a failed ballerina herself and the only person she's seen to interact with.
But what about Mila Kunis, the actor cast as Nina's rival, Lily? She also needed to portray a gifted ballet dancer, and persuasively enough for the character to appear as threatening competition to Nina. Yet unlike Portman, Kunis had never studied ballet.
Carrey and Cox — who played Ace Ventura and Melissa Robinson, respectively, in the slapstick comedy — "became really good friends" according to the actress, and her costar "cracked [her] up the entire time." When asked by Stern, 67, whether non-platonic sparks flew, she admitted, "There was a crush for sure."