WEBVTT - Danielle Dances! (Week 6) 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:19.080 Hello, Danielle with the Stars gang. It's Danielle Fishal podcaster, 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:23.680 TV director, mother of two and to Panga Lawrence, daughter 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:27.200 of Jedediah and Rhianna and Lawrence from the TV show 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:28.200 Boy Meets World. 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:29.680 But if you're listening to. 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.559 Me right now, you are well aware that I am 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.640 also an aspiring ballroom dancer on season thirty four of 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:40.520 Dancing with the Stars and a student of shiz University. 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:45.800 Because it was wicked night, and despite having no prior 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.879 dance experience, I have now completely submitted my body and 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.680 well being to the art form and institution of dance 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:59.320 alongside my partner, the incredible Pasha Pashkov, and included in 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.960 this commitment has been a podcast set in motion to 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:05.199 share my first hand experience with you, and it's called 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.640 Danielle with the Stars. You'll write along as I avoid 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.920 total body breakdown, learn new dances every week, and stare 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.600 longingly at the Len Goodman Mirror Ball Trophy like a 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:19.120 dog at the window of Ruth's. Chris and I am 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:22.480 joining you now fresh off the press line of what 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:29.600 was a jam packed night of action, fancy footwork, incredible sets, 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:35.560 fantastic music, and it was Wicked night, I danced the 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:39.600 Argentine tango to the song No Good Deed, as featured 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.480 in both the musical Wicked and Part two for Good. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:49.040 I was nine out of ten to perform tonight. I 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:57.000 really felt a lot of pressure for tonight's dance last week, 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:02.800 felt like getting that feedback, specifically from Carrie Anne that 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.440 she thought our dances looked the same, and I totally 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.360 knew what she meant, and I really wanted to have 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.120 exactly what she called tonight, which was my breakthrough dance 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.360 and my breakthrough night. I really wanted to have a 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.280 breakthrough week, and I knew that we were getting to 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.800 the point in the competition where if I didn't have one, 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.359 it was possible, it was just never going to happen. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.520 And I knew it was possible, Like I knew it 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:32.720 was possible. I knew I could do it. I knew 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.680 I had it in me. I knew Pasha was capable of, 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.680 you know, doing some fantastic choreography to a number that 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.359 would really help me feel like I had a total breakthrough. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.639 And so I just really wanted it to be this week, 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.040 and I felt a lot of pressure for it to 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.240 be this week. And when I saw Pasha's choreography and 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.160 I saw all the lifts, and I was like, I've 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.760 never done anything like this before. Nobody has ever picked 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.120 me up other than being, you know, a five foot 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.760 one woman who people sometimes will hug and then pick up. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.480 And I'm like, okay, any want to be picked up? 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:09.360 I have never done lifts like that. Like, I didn't 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.640 know what to expect. I didn't know what my role 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.440 in it was supposed to be, Like, how do I 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.680 help you? Help you help me? How do I do that? 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.760 I didn't know. And I felt at the very beginning 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.960 of the week like I was just a sack of 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:26.799 potatoes and it was. None of the moves were looking good, 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:32.120 none of the lifts were looking great and truly full. 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.240 Two days into rehearsing the routine and I was like, 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.160 this doesn't look good. I'm not sure we have a 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.280 dance here. Pasha never gave up on me. He never 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.720 felt like there was something we couldn't do. He just 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.400 kept challenging me, and every day a new body part hurt. 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.640 I have like some very sore ribs and some sore 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.120 skin around my ribs from where he was, you know, 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:58.200 having to grip me for. 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.000 All of the lifts. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:04.160 They realized very quickly that lifts, as much as they 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.560 are on the man to actually pick you up, so 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.760 much of a lift is actually in the woman and 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.280 being able to have your shoulders down and your lats 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.640 engaged and your chest engaged. And when you do that 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.400 and your one solid piece, it makes it significantly easier 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.920 for them to pick you up and move you instead 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.839 of being like a bunch of individual body parts. 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.839 That requires a lot of strength. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:35.680 And I told Jensen, my husband, on one of the 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:39.200 first days of this new week, I said, imagine that 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.480 feeling when you've gone to the gym or you've done 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.760 a really hard workout and one or two parts of 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:49.920 your body are just incredibly sore, like fatigued to one 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:55.000 hundred percent you have maxed them out. Then normally, if 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.760 you are just working out for health and wellness, you 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.800 move on to other body parts. Don't go back to 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.880 those same body parts. You don't do biceps on Wednesday 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.160 and then biceps on Thursday and then biceps on Friday. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.120 You do in dance like we're doing these same moves 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.000 over and over again, seven days a week. So whatever 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.600 little sore spots you have, whether it's your ribs or 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.480 it's your hamstrings, or it's your neck or your shoulder. 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:20.240 Guess what. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.200 You get a night's rest and you get to take 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.120 some advil and you get to go to sleep and 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.480 maybe take an ep, some saltpath, maybe do a cold plunge. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.600 But tomorrow you are back at it, hitting that body 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:36.680 part again with those same exact moves for four plus hours. 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:42.320 It is just I did not realize how much I 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.680 did not recognize what dancers put their bodies through. 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:45.919 It is a lot. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:50.400 And we had our share of struggles this week. Pasha's 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.799 his hamstrings were bothering him. We had the quick step 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.680 in the jive the two weeks prior to that, so 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.919 both of us were doing lots of little flicks and 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:03.239 kicks and la of runs, and then we have this stance, 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.479 which is, you know, he's doing a lot of lyfts, 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.320 so he's in a lot of squats, He's doing a 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:11.159 lot of squats, and everything was, everything was hurting, And 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.160 there was at one point on I think it was Sunday, 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.599 we went to do the routine full out one hundred 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:25.640 percent and my left peck muscle hurts so bad that 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.800 I had to stop, and I said, We're going to 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.120 have to be really strategic here, because right. 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.480 Now I'm in so much pain. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.480 The thought of trying to do that move again is 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:40.479 making me shake, Like I'm so scared to feel the 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.200 pain that I'm going to feel. And I don't want 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.680 to do this because it's Sunday, and like I could 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.400 what if I really hurt myself right now and then 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:52.120 Monday camera blocking, I can't do it, or even worse, 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.600 Tuesday show day, I can't do it. And so Pasha said, 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.480 you're right, we need to be smart about this. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:06:59.640 Stop. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.320 Let's stop doing all the tricks. Let's not worry about 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.719 the tricks for the rest of the night. Let's just 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:09.000 clean and focus on everything that isn't a lyft. 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:10.120 Let's do the whole. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.280 Routine top to bottoms, marking as much as you can 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.160 the lifts, and focus on everything else. And so we 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.720 spent the next like hour and a half just doing that, 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.440 and I actually took a leave during that time. It 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.240 took an hour to an hour and a half off 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:25.800 and by the time we got to that hour and 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:27.440 a half, I said, what time is it? And he said, 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.000 it's about eight thirty PM, and our rehearsal was over 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.120 at nine and I said, I think I feel okay 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.720 to try one all the way through with the tricks, 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.720 I think, and he said already sure, and I was like. 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.400 I did some stretches and I was like, yeah, I 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.440 feel significantly better. My anxiety about the end, like about 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.720 hurting myself, is now gone. And when I touched the muscle, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.800 I feel okay, let's try it. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.640 And we were able to do it. 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.560 It was really good. We felt super confident about it 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.640 all of that time. That hour hour and a half 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:01.760 time we spent focusing on the stuff that wasn't the 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.480 lifts did not go to waste. The dance looked so 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.520 great after that one. We still had some things we 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.400 needed to fix, of course, but at least at nine 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.760 pm when we finished, we had done it top to bottom, 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.520 including the lifts, and I was really happy that we 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:21.120 spent all that downtime letting me heal and cleaning everything 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.560 that wasn't a lift. So anyway, this week was not 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.720 an easy week. It was especially not an easy week 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.080 for Pasha, and I'm really very very. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:30.520 Proud of us. 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:35.280 We had our highest scores of the season last week. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:40.960 We had seven seven, seven, eight, and this week. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.600 We had four nines. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:48.440 I did not go into tonight even really thinking about scores. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.400 I really just went in thinking about feedback and like 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.000 what I wanted the feedback to be. And the one 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.840 thing that I feel like I really kept saying to 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:01.240 myself was like my goal was that I wanted someone 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.439 to say or to feel like this was a breakthrough dance, 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.960 because I had that in my mind and I had 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.120 that pressure on me all week. And so the minute 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.600 Carrie Anne said that she felt like this was a 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:17.880 breakthrough dance for me, I felt really very touched. And 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.840 then at the end of the night, something nobody got 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.760 to see is while we were standing on the floors 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:27.280 right before elimination, the judges were all standing at their tables, 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.840 and Carrie Anne looked at me and she smiled. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.520 At me, and she said, I'm really proud of you. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:37.720 And it really meant a lot, Like it really really 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.800 really meant a lot, and I just want to keep 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.680 getting better every week. So the fact that she gave 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.959 me that note last week and then recognized how hard 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.680 we worked to get to this point is like just 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.720 the most satisfying feeling when people recognize your hard work 0:09:52.760 --> 0:10:09.679 for what it is. This week, with hair, makeup, wardrobe, 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:15.800 everything was a sharp departure. We had completely slicked back hair, 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:17.920 tight bun. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:19.320 Oh my gosh. 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:24.560 You know they actually sew our hair into itself. This 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.240 is not an exaggeration. And there's like a hook. It 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.640 looks like a fishing hook and you put the thread 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.199 in it and they just like curve it into your 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.880 bun and then into your scalp and out and they 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.240 sew it down so that it doesn't go anywhere. That's 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.000 how I'm able to be upside down and in the 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.520 splits and swung around in the air without that hair moving. Also, 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.600 as you can tell by my glorious look here, the 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.600 hair spray they use is not quite hair spray as 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.720 much as it is glue, just straight up glue, so 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.520 your hair is basically shellacked and glued to your head. 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.679 I thought the makeup this week was just I mean, 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.360 my makeup every week is so great. My makeup artist 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.600 is a woman named Lois on the show, and she 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.760 also works on Electric Bloom. She does some of the 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:12.880 makeup on Electric Bloom. So that's really fun because I 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:14.480 know her and I work with her she's used to 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.160 seeing me as a director. I think she killed it 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.920 this week. Kimmy is who did my hair, and she 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.360 did an upside down braid. So she started with me 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.160 in the chair. I tipped my head upside down. She 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.760 braided my hair upside down. Then they put that into 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.160 a ponytail. They had separated the crown of my hair 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.760 into a bunch of little sections, and then just like 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.440 peace at a time, they comb it back and spray 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.800 it down and make sure it's super sleek. I never 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.120 wear my hair like that. I never wear all my 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.440 hair pulled back, as you guys know because you see 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:46.280 me all the time. But I got so many compliments 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:50.280 on the hair and makeup and wardrobe tonight. Daniella the 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:55.480 head costumer here at Dancing with the Stars, Oh my gosh, 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.160 they are so amazing, and a thought who does the tailoring? 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:00.080 Ever? 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.600 Here in Nadej who does the body makeup. It is 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:08.040 a full hands on effort to make us look like 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:12.360 we look on Dancing with the Stars. It is all 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.000 hands on deck and it's so cool and it's so 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.880 fun and the process is great. Tonight, I wore fish 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:23.040 nets in my dance. Fish Nets were a last literally 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.840 a last second edition. I was going to be bare legged. 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:31.839 And then we did our dress rehearsal and Danny suggested 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.720 to Pasha that I wear fish nets. And also I 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.040 got a suggestion of fish nets from an executive on 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.319 the show, and the executive said, would you be open 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:46.480 to trying it for the dress rehearsal and I said, yeah, 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.080 why not, I'd love it. And so we put on 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.040 the fish nets that have like the seam down the back, 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.000 and it just really added to the whole look. And 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.000 I knew after then watching the dress rehearsal and seeing 0:12:58.000 --> 0:12:59.559 what it looked like, I was like, Yeah, the fish 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.600 nets were the way to go. And I asked Danny tonight, 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:04.920 I said, I gotta be honest, I was a little 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:09.560 insecure when I heard that you also suggested that I. 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:10.839 Should wear fish nets. 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.160 Did you just think that my legs didn't look good? 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:18.040 And she goes, no, I know from myself that if 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.640 I'm having to do a lot of lifts and splits 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:26.960 and i feel like I'm showing too much skin, I 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:30.240 will hold back. And she said, and I didn't want 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:34.360 you to be holding anything back tonight, And She's right. 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.400 I didn't even think about it. But after I put 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:41.880 the fish nets on, I just felt more contained and 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.600 confident in what I was wearing, and I didn't feel 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.959 like I had to be concerned about any of the 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:47.840 tricks we were doing. 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.679 So that was really great. I will say that. 0:13:53.600 --> 0:14:03.679 During dress rehearsal, my nose in that last trick came millimeters. 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.040 Away from the ballroom floor. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.120 There was something about the momentum that we did during 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.280 dress rehearsal of the spin where I was up in 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.360 the air above, you know, on Pasha's shoulder, and he's 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:15.079 spinning around and. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.600 He had all that momentum. He didn't slow down at all. 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:22.480 He went from full momentum to just rolling me forward 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:28.320 down toward my nose, and he did not have a 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:32.280 great grip on me. And I saw my life flash 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.760 before my eyes as the hardwood floor came, I'm not 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:40.200 kidding you, this close to my face. And at the 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.400 very last second when I was like, oh, I'm still 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.280 moving in my head because we've been practicing this move 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.960 all week and normally there's like a very hard stop, 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:49.440 and today I was like. 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.400 Oh gosh, Oh my gosh, I'm still getting closed to 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:51.680 the book. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.440 Then the floor was like right here, at the very 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.080 last second, I put my hand down like this, and 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.200 then I realized I wasn't moving anymore so and then I 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:05.160 went back into position. And afterward Pashua I was like, 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.280 what happened? And Pasha was like, I'm sorry. Your back 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:08.840 wasn't as much to me as it needed to be 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.240 and I barely had a grip on you. And he's like, 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:16.120 but I promise you I will not drop you. So 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.440 no matter what happens tonight during the live show, do 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.560 not put your hands down, stick your landing, and I 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.960 will not drop you. And I said, I know you 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.160 won't drop me. I completely trust you. And he said, good, 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:34.480 worst case scenario, I'll pay for your nose job. And 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.720 I was like, well, nothing has filled me with more 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:42.520 confidence than that. So we got out there and we 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.240 did it. I'm really happy. I haven't been able to 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.440 read any comments, I haven't been able to watch to 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:50.160 watch our dance. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:51.680 I don't even know what it looked like. I know 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:52.360 what it felt like. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.760 I can tell you I have never felt more present 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.320 in my body than I did tonight. I would say 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.360 tonight is the first time I actually felt like a dancer, 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.040 like I really felt like a dance tonight. I felt 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.600 like a dancer who knew what she was doing and 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.400 who was in a place that I was supposed to be. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.320 And that was very exciting and it was thrilling and 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.880 makes me just want to be even better week after 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:23.080 week after week. Having John m Two there Wicked, the 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.680 director of Wicked and Crazy Rich Asians. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.880 I'm such a fan of his as a director. He 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.080 was so nice. I thought his. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.720 Commentary and his critiques were so smart. His one of 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.840 his first comments being about transitions, and I was like, 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:45.200 oh my gosh, like, yes, he really knows what he's 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:49.480 talking about. That's super exciting. He's really smart. He was 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.000 really great guest judge. I thought he gave he tied 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.120 in the storyline of the movie really well into his critiques. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:57.560 I just thought he added so much. 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.560 I really think tonight, as the themes go, you could 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.560 tell how excited everyone was for the Wicked theme. You 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.000 could tell that people from the moment they knew that 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.560 this was on the menu for a list of things 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.080 to do, people were thinking like, Oh, I just really 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.720 want to make it to Wicked night. I thought all 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.600 the dances were amazing. I thought everybody really leveled up. 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.440 I didn't get to see a ton of other dances 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.600 this week before leading up to ours. I had seen 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.920 bits and pieces of Ezra and Jordan's, which I knew 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:32.120 was great, and I'm so happy that they got tends tonight. 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.880 Jordan just really killed that rumba, and I know how 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.240 hard that dance is, and I know that she was 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:43.520 feeling nervous about that dance, and she and Ezra just 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.720 knocked it out of the park, and so I'm really 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:52.199 happy for them. I saw Robert's dance right before I 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.280 saw it during dress rehearsal, and then I saw him 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:56.959 right before we went out, and I said, how are 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:57.959 you feeling about tonight? 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:01.600 And he said, you know, I'm really nervous. I said more. 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.400 Nervous tonight, and He's like, yeah, I'm more nervous tonight 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.480 than usual. And I said why, what is it? And 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.040 he said, I just I'm not used to dealing with props. 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.600 And I said, but you did it so well. It 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.080 looked so seamless, and I knew that he was nervous 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:18.399 specifically about those props. So when John said it is 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.879 not easy for actors to work with props, they can 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.600 get lost in them. I know that note meant so 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.639 much to Robert because he had been nervous about it 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:31.000 and he'd been working on it so much. So I'm 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:35.359 really proud of him. He just did such a phenomenal job. 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:41.440 Of course, my alliance partner, Dylan and Danny, I thought 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:46.680 they did a fantastic, fantastic job tonight. I know somebody, 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:48.919 I think maybe Carrie Anne mentioned that Dylan's foot had 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:50.840 gotten a little stuck, and then sure enough, when Dylan 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:52.400 came off the dance water, he was like, yeah. 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:53.760 My foot got a little stuck over there. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.800 But I thought that dance was beautiful. Apparently a rumba 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:00.800 is very very hard. I don't know if we're even 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:02.240 gonna I don't even know if we get to do 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.760 it this season, but apparently it's a very hard dance. 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.040 But I thought the two of them tonight, both of 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:24.680 them were incredible rumbas. Ah Man, the elimination part of 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.720 the night, the part where we all lined up on 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.080 the dance floor, and I looked at Pasha and I said, man, 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:31.040 this part sucks. 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:33.200 It just you know all night. 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.480 Somehow you're really able to kind of put the fact 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.080 that there was an elimination behind you. Because I'm only 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.520 gonna speak for myself, I'm assuming it's the same for everybody, 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.880 But I cannot believe how in the moment I am 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:50.520 watching everybody else dance, I'm so excited genuinely to see 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:54.280 what they have been working on all week, because I 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:59.600 know now firsthand how hard what our days are like, 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.240 and how so little time we have for anything else, 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:04.800 for our families, for any sort of social life. 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:06.399 There's just there's very little. 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.520 Time, and I know how difficult it is. And so 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:13.760 then to watch my friends, my new friends, completely come 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:19.200 to life in the most beautiful ballroom with incredible sets 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:23.760 and pyrotechnics and these incredible professional dancers. Can we talk 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:27.520 about Troop for a second. Can we talk about Hayley 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:35.600 and Anne and Jackson and Carter. I. I am mesmerized 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.040 by each and every one of them. Every week they 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:44.240 come out and they are pouring their souls out on 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:48.199 the dance floor. And here's a little BTS thing. We 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:51.359 have to film a wide which is like our full 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:55.439 dance from beginning to end, one hundred percent by Thursday. 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.879 The week starts on Wednesday, so within forty eight hours 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:00.879 they want us to be at a one hundred percent 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:04.199 both performance and the steps and the dance, so that 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.000 the director can start fill the director of Dancing with 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:09.280 the Stars can start working on his shots and figuring 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:12.320 out how he's going to shoot every person's dance. A 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.639 lot of times the celebrities are not at one hundred percent. 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.520 Forty eight hours later, we're just not. We may know 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:20.440 some of the steps, but we can't perform all of them, 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:22.520 and you don't get a lot of opportunities. You don't 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:24.719 get to shoot your wide a bunch of times. You 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:25.720 really need to be able to. 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.880 Pretty much maybe two times max. 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.360 Be able to go beginning to end on your first 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:35.679 or second take, and that's pretty much it. So because 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:38.280 of that, because I may not be ready to shoot 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:41.320 my wide, Pasha will say I'm going to go teach 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:43.880 the dance to Anye or I'm going to go teach 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:46.720 the dance to Haley, and then they're going to record 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:48.560 a wide for the director, and then I just get 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:50.840 to go back into my rehearsal. When I tell you, 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:56.120 it takes them like thirty minutes to learn the entire routine, 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:58.800 to learn the entire dance, and then I get to 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:01.320 have that video on my phone and I just get 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:06.080 to watch them and they're beautiful dancer bodies and the 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:08.000 things that they do, and I get to go. 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:09.640 Oh, I should be doing more of that. 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:14.280 I have learned so much from all these pros and 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:18.320 this troop. I just can't say enough wonderful things about them. 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:22.200