Jody Sawyer would have looked a lot different if Amanda Schull had her way. Amanda Schull (who played Jody Sawyer), Sascha Radetsky (Charlie), Ethan Stiefel (Cooper Nielson), and Julie Kent (Juliet) are all professional ballet dancers. Steifel played Cooper, one of Jody's instructors and the company member with whom she has that "illicit affair." Amanda Schull and Susan May Pratt had a Center Stage reunion on Sunday, December 9, nearly two decades after they starred in the popular teen drama. "I didn't have film acting experience — it was my first film job ever," Schull told Schull was also an aspiring prima ballerina, and landed a contract with the San Francisco Ballet at the same time she landed the role inThe fact that she "could relate to every single thing Jody was going through was perfect," Schull told The film also starred professional ballet dancers Ethan Stiefel and Sasha Radetsky. Actress and former ballerina Amanda Schull looks back on the celebrated dance movie People.com
"If I had filmed maybe a year or two later after being in the company I would have probably been a lot more loosey-goosey and played with it because I would have been more comfortable with more forms of dance at that point.
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A photo posted by Amanda Schull (@amandaschull) on May 12, 2016 at 9:04am PDT Before Step Up , Save the Last Dance and Honey , there was Center Stage (a.k.a. The film helped launch the acting careers of Amanda Schull and Zoe Saldana, and turned Ethan Stiefel and Sascha Radetsky into certified ballet heartthrobs. So I read the whole script the night before. Radetsky portrayed Jody's classmate, Charlie, who develops a crush on her.It was also a young Saldana's first movie role, where she played Eva Rodriguez, a gifted but short-tempered ballet student.Surprisingly, an iconic scene from the film, Jody's final fouetté sequence during her workshop dance performance, isn't something Schull is happy to look back on. “After my rehearsal I got notice from one of the administrator’s from the company that they wanted me to read a script.
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I think that like any kind of career there are many different people involved in the ballet world,” Schull says. He was a principal with ABT at the time that we filmed and knew that it was a whole new thing for me,” Schull tellsThe trio would eventually perform together in the final workshop.
It is a little bit bittersweet and frustrating because like any performance you watch back and think, 'How can I do this better?' Dimensions: 480x202. He really is a lovely guy.
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Since its 2000 release, the film has earned cult classic status among dance aficionados for its charming portrayal of a young ballerina, Jody Sawyer, and her time at the fictional, but highly-competitive American Ballet Academy, loosely based on New York's School of American Ballet.Schull, who landed the role of Jody, was a student at the San Francisco Ballet School when she was scouted by a casting director.
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Ethan Stiefel and Amanda Schull in Columbia Pictures' Center Stage.
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