00:02Hey guys it's Sophia Carson here. This is Real Talk and I am so happy to be talking to all
00:09of
00:09you guys about my movie with Netflix. Feel the Beat is a beautiful story about hope and a story
00:16of homecoming. It follows my character April who's a small-town girl who runs away from home to run
00:23to the big city to chase her dreams fearlessly and it's just a beautiful heartwarming story
00:29that when you watch it I hope it makes you smile. Taxi! Thank you! This is my taxi! This is
00:36a matter
00:36of life and death. I've got a major audition. Go! Simmer would like to take a look at you. Your
00:42career is over. April and myself are so similar in that we're both dancers and both so incredibly
00:48passionate about our craft and what we do and you know a lot of April's story is her transition from
00:56being almost obsessed with being the best she could possibly be and that kind of consumes her
01:03and in a lot of ways as a performer I can really relate to that. So from now on unless
01:11you're asleep
01:12or at school you will be here practicing day in and day out. There was just something really magical
01:22about this movie and about the connection that we had and they're young girls you know there's a big
01:29age gap between me and them and yet we really we became like a family. I also learned so much
01:36from
01:36them because I feel like you learn so much from kids everything to them is so magical and it made
01:41every day on set even more magical.
01:44Mommy, I already forgot what we wanted to do.
01:46No talking! Oh yeah!
01:48Drop and give me 20 push-ups. Now!
01:50I've been a dancer since I was three years old. So that's why April's story is so close to mine
01:55because
01:56everything that you see her go through from her audition to the competitions, the pressures of it,
02:01the heartbreak when you don't do well. I've been through every single one of those moments.
02:09So it was really incredible to go back into the physicality of being a dancer both physically and
02:16emotionally. It was about almost two months of training before we started shooting. I had like um ballet
02:22intensives every morning for a few hours conditioning and then into choreography.
02:28So it was just like getting me back into the groove of being a professional dancer. My mom would
02:33always say that I looked most at home when I was dancing and when I was on stage and I've
02:39always
02:39stopped at it. It's just like an escape for me, this freedom and you see that in April's story as
02:45well.
02:46I was thinking maybe doing one of these. A dance competition. I want to be on Broadway. How are we
02:52going to do that? I'd say you have a 0.0001% chance of making it. And apart from that,
03:02I also loved the
03:03fact that it was just the story that gave you such hope. You know, it just makes you smile. It
03:11makes you
03:11happy. And I also loved how beautifully inclusive it was. The stories that were told, not only April's
03:19story, but all of her students, all of the girls, each of them are so beautiful and so unique in
03:25their
03:25own way. And we kind of celebrate them in all of their glory and we each have their magical and
03:31special
03:32moments. And that really meant a lot to me.
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