Freddie Prinze Jr. Reveals She’s All That Secret You Won’t Believe
16. Iscove needed to struggle to maintain the now-iconic promenade scene within the film, explaining to Cosmo he actually “wanted a big dance number” regardless of the studio’s reservations. The answer: More scenes with Usher, who performed the college’s D.J. (Hey, it was the ’90s!)
“That’s why we went back and shot more Usher stuff [of him] saying ‘Remember what I taught you in dance class’ or whatever,” he stated. “We went back and shot more scenes with Usher in Chicago, which was where he was doing an album, and intercut more.”
17. One one who was not proud of the dance quantity was Dulé Hill, who was “pissed that he wasn’t able to tap dance,” in line with Prinze.
“Dulé’s this world-class tap-dancer,” Prinze advised The Daily Beast. “When we were shooting the volleyball sequence at the beach, I heard him sliding and tapping his feet on the wood, and I said, ‘Are you tap dancing?’ And he said, ‘I’m a hoofer, man.’ And that’s how we bonded. We started going to this dance studio in Hollywood and we’d tap dance. We did it all the time.”
18. The quantity was choreographed by Adam Shankman, who would go on to direct A Walk to Remember, The Wedding Planner and Hairspray, amongst different movies. Prinze and Shankman instantly hit it off whereas filming the film, a lot in order that he performed a big function in Prinze’s 2002 marriage ceremony. As he advised Today, “The choreographer from She’s All That married my wife and I!”