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- Only 22 years old when the film hit theaters in 2000, the actress made her feature film debut as talented but hard-nosed dancer Eva Rodriguez.
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Center Stage is a 2000 American teen drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner about a group of young ballet dancers from various backgrounds who enroll at the fictitious American Ballet Academy in New York City. The film explores the issues and difficulties in the world of professional dance, and how each individual copes with the stresses.
- $26.3 million
- George Fenton
- May 12, 2000
- Laurence Mark
- Center Stage's producers wanted to cast a high-profile actor for the role of Jody Sawyer. Director Nicholas Hytner, a knowledgeable ballet fan himself, was committed to making Center Stage as authentic as possible, and that meant casting professional dancers.
- Amanda Schull had a lot in common with her Center Stage character. Schull’s story of being cast as Jody Sawyer is loosely reminiscent of Jody’s own storyline in the film, and the similarities don’t end there.
- The motorcycle was added after Ethan Stiefel was cast in Center Stage. Ethan Stiefel is a motorcycle aficionado in real life, a detail that filmmakers quickly co-opted for the leather jacket-wearing, rule-breaking character of Cooper Nielson after casting Stiefel—he even got to ride his own bike in the film.
- Sascha Radetsky originally auditioned for the role of Sergei in Center Stage. Sascha Radetsky, then a member of American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT) corps de ballet, had trained briefly at the Bolshoi Academy in Moscow and even spoke Russian.
May 12, 2015 · Amanda Schull (who played Jody Sawyer), Sascha Radetsky (Charlie), Ethan Stiefel (Cooper Nielson), and Julie Kent (Juliet) are all professional ballet dancers. Even Zoe Saldana, who played...
May 13, 2020 · Center Stage was Saldana’s first film role—a perfect fit for the former dancer. “I had danced for close to 10 years of my life, so to get to play Eva in my very first huge, studio...
- Ilana Kaplan
May 12, 2000 · Center Stage. A group of teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
- Nicholas Hytner
- 32 sec
Jul 15, 2023 · Saldana's first role was in a dance movie called Center Stage. It was our intro to her and her most compelling part. What Is Center Stage? Columbia Pictures.
May 12, 2020 · Photo: Columbia/Photofest. Zoe Saldana may have been one of the only non-dancers in the main cast of Center Stage, but the sheer power of her performance made her its most unforgettable character....
