Corbin Bleu nonetheless has his soar roping abilities all these years later.
“Double Dutch in between exhibits exterior of our theatre! My [Off-Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors] household is aware of how one can convey the group collectively!” Bleu, 35, captioned an Instagram video on Sunday, Could 27. “Can’t consider it’s been nearly 20 years since I’ve executed this.”
Within the clip, the star is leaping rope on a New York Metropolis avenue as his 2007 tune “Push It to the Restrict” from the Disney Channel Unique Film Leap In! performs within the background. Bleu starred alongside Keke Palmer within the DCOM, which premiered in January 2007. (Bleu is at present starring as Seymour Krelborn in an Off-Broadway manufacturing of Little Store of Horrors.)
The movie adopted the story of Izzy Daniels (Bleu) a teenage boxing prodigy who finds himself on a Double Dutch staff coached by longtime good friend Mary (Palmer). All through the film, Izzy has to determine if he needs to be a Golden Gloves winner like his father or assist his new buddies win a regional Double Dutch championship.
The movie’s director, Paul Hoen, informed Insider in January 2022 that each Bleu and Palmer, 30, did their very own stunts on the movie’s set.
“What’s simply so wonderful with that group of actors is that they may do all of that soar roping,” Hoen recalled. “It’s amazingly onerous, and all of the methods, they have been fully into these and studying how one can do them.”
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Palmer has additionally regarded again at her time making the film, revealing that she had her first kiss on digital camera with Bleu.
“That was my first kiss in life,” Palmer, 30, mentioned throughout an interview with Cosmopolitan in July 2020. “Regardless that that wasn’t my actual first kiss, it was my precise first kiss … I bear in mind simply feeling excited and it was cool as a result of I had a cool particular person to kiss, Corbin is fairly good wanting.”
Palmer admitted she was “scared” as effectively. “Essentially the most enjoyable half about this film was that I used to be round my friends — individuals my very own age,” she recalled.
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Apart from Bleu and Palmer, Leap In! additionally starred David Reivers, Shanica Knowles, Patrick Johnson Jr., Laivan Greene and Kylee Russell.
Whereas Leap In! was a standalone DCOM, director Hoen revealed that a whole lot of footage was left on the slicing room flooring.
“It took a very long time to type of cull it down,” he informed Insider, explaining that the unique 120 minutes of footage needed to be lower for TV. “I don’t know that we pulled out [full] scenes, however a whole lot of the Double Dutch was simply so thick, and it was simply looking for the rhythm of how we might lower all of it down, particularly in these competitions.”
