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2. Of course that wasn't the only experience she brought to the gig. "I've been dancing since I was little," she shared on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn while promoting the movie in 2001. Still, to play a teenage ballerina with a realistic shot at attending Juilliard, her years of modern dance experience weren't going to cut it. "I had to do, like, a month and a half of four hours a day dancing my tush off," she said. While that left the 19-year-old in what she called "the best shape of my life," her feet were destroyed: "Oh my god, I had the nastiest feet….They'd bleed, they'd get calluses, blisters, bunions, all that stuff." 

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