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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, star of Final Destination 3, had not danced professionally for five years when she walked into the rehearsals for Make It Happen.
"The first day, I thought they were going to kill me, that I was never going to be able to walk again," says Winstead, on the line from Los Angeles. "The next day, I couldn't get up or down. I just had to throw myself on to the chair as my legs were so shaky."
For six weeks leading up to the shoot, Winstead rehearsed moves eight hours a day. "It was quite intense and exhausting and they didn't cut me any slack," she says. Winstead plays Lauryn, a girl from the sticks who moves to the city to audition for the Chicago School of Music.
Make It Happen is set in Chicago, which looks almost wholly unlike Winnipeg, Canada, where the film was shot. "It's quite different but we did go to Chicago for a few days and got a few exteriors of all the landmarks," Winstead says. "Because we only had a couple of days, it was like 'There's something over there - shoot it. There's something else - shoot it'."
"The first day, I thought they were going to kill me, that I was never going to be able to walk again," says Winstead, on the line from Los Angeles. "The next day, I couldn't get up or down. I just had to throw myself on to the chair as my legs were so shaky."
For six weeks leading up to the shoot, Winstead rehearsed moves eight hours a day. "It was quite intense and exhausting and they didn't cut me any slack," she says. Winstead plays Lauryn, a girl from the sticks who moves to the city to audition for the Chicago School of Music.
Make It Happen is set in Chicago, which looks almost wholly unlike Winnipeg, Canada, where the film was shot. "It's quite different but we did go to Chicago for a few days and got a few exteriors of all the landmarks," Winstead says. "Because we only had a couple of days, it was like 'There's something over there - shoot it. There's something else - shoot it'."
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