In the new Netflix dance film Work It, actress and singer Sabrina Carpenter plays Quinn, a first-rate student who dreams of going to Duke University. After making his way through an interview at his dream school, Quinn is determined to turn it into a popular dance contest to impress the admissions officer. Liza Koshy, who plays her most productive friend Jasmine in the film, in Work It, co-starring with the still Girl Meets World, Carpenter. Jasmine teaches Quinn, who has two left feet, to dance and significantly improves the film. But what is Carpenter’s authentic dance experience?
In a cosmopolitan profile of Carpenter, the publication noted that his role in Work is “deliciously ironic”. That’s because she’s been dancing for years.
“Sabrina, who dances since before she bets and has the YouTube videos to do it, had to pretend to be a bad dancer for more than a part of the film to make it work,” Cosmo reported. In fact, there are several clips from the Work It star on YouTube that run on their moves from an early age. Although she doesn’t have the corresponding dance gear that delights as co-star Koshy, YouTube videos show that Carpenter’s hip-hop skills exist, and Work It’s sloppy moves were an act.
“Dancing badly may simply be dancing well,” Carpenter admitted to the magazine.
Carpenter is also a successful singer and dances quite a bit when he toured.
However, in a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Carpenter explained that dancing on Work It required a little because he hadn’t danced so much in recent years. As the post reported:
The biggest challenge of betting on Quinn is not only regaining her strength for the choreography (she says she hadn’t stretched well for the dance for seven years), but also being informed about how to dance badly in the first part of the film.
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“[I was] in my body for the end of the movie and … completely out of my body for the first half of it,” Carpenter told Rolling Stone about Netflix’s Work It. “So that was fun.”
In a YouTube video for BuzzFeed Celeb, Carpenter also admitted that she purposely didn’t learn choreography — so that she would look like a worse dancer.
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“But it was on purpose, so [I seem to] I don’t know what I was doing,” explained the Star of Work It. “It was a terrible way of looking.” Carpenter expanded:
“[Like] the audition scene for The Thunderbirds, I literally had no idea what I was doing… The two women who put in front of me were literally what I was doing, so I was an account behind me.