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Mar 1, 2019 · March 1, 2019. Sofia Boutella started off as a dancer, and as an actor she has given some of the coolest, most charismatic genre-movie performances of recent years, with roles in Star Trek...
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In 2014, after 12 years as a dancer, Boutella sought a career in acting. Initially, she purposefully avoided auditioning for lead roles, wishing to play supporting characters so as to learn from more experienced actors. [3]
Mar 3, 2019 · Before she played a leaping assassin in 2015’s Kingsman: The Secret Service and an alien warrior in 2016’s Star Trek Beyond, French-Algerian actor Sofia Boutella was a dancer who went from...
Mar 4, 2019 · Boutella convinced Noé that he would need a choreographer and introduced the director to McNeely, who is based in L.A. and known for her unique style of movement fusing contemporary, hip-hop and...
- She was director Alex Kurtzman’s first and only choice to play The Mummy. “There was nobody else for me,” Kurtzman tells us. “I had seen her in Kingsman — which I love — and what she did as a dancer in the Nike ads, so I knew she obviously had the physicality to play this part.
- She initially said no to playing The Mummy. Having just played Jaylah in Star Trek Beyond — where she was buried in tons of alien make-up — Boutella wasn’t keen to do another prosthetics-heavy role.
- Yes, the Mummy make-up process was a pain in the arse. “The longest session lasted six hours and the shortest, four. We did 24 screen-tests for the look, which was hard but essential for The Mummy to work, because these images will stay forever.
- She never forgot the lessons she learnt from her 12 years as a dancer, including a stint as Madonna’s backup dancer during the singer’s Confessions tour.
Jul 27, 2021 · After years of training in nearly every style of dance, her big break came when she was discovered by Madonna, who made Boutella a backup dancer on one of her tours and eventually cast her in a couple of the performer's videos.
Jun 8, 2017 · Her understanding of the character, too, was rooted in Boutella’s own past. She originally started out life as a dancer, joining Madonna and Rihanna on tour before her breakout role in ...
