16 Iscove needed to combat to keep the now-iconic senior prom scene in the film, describing to Cosmo he actually “wanted a big dance number” in spite of the studio’s appointments. The service: More scenes with Usher, who played the school’s D.J. (Hey, it was the ’90 s!)
“That’s why we returned and shot more Usher things [of him] stating ‘Remember what I taught you in dance class’ or whatever,” he stated. “We went back and shot more scenes with Usher in Chicago, which was where he was doing an album, and intercut more.”
17 One individual who was not delighted with the dance number was Dul é Hill, who was “pissed that he wasn’t able to tap dance,” according to Prinze.
“Dulé’s this world-class tap-dancer,” Prinze informed The DailyBeast “When we were shooting the volleyball sequence at the beach, I heard him sliding and tapping his feet on the wood, and I said, ‘Are you tap dancing?’ And he said, ‘I’m a hoofer, man.’ And that’s how we bonded. We started going to this dance studio in Hollywood and we’d tap dance. We did it all the time.”
18 The number was choreographed by Adam Shankman, who would go on to direct A Walk to Remember, The Wedding Planner and Hairspray, to name a few movies. Prinze and Shankman right away struck it off while shooting the film, a lot so that he played a big function in Prinze’s 2002 wedding event. As he informed Today, “The choreographer from She’s All That married my better half and I!”
