Rob Lowe recently said in an interview that he injured himself when he auditioned to star in the original “Footloose” movie. “It’s a dance audition. By the way I think it was to a Styx song of all things. And the end of the dance was a knee slide across the floor. And I hit my knees and slide across the floor into a lineup of [former Paramount Pictures CEO] Sherry Lansing, [screenwriter] Dean Pitchford, [producer] Craig Zadan’ – with the star adding director Herbert Ross was also in attendance. And my knee explodes. Explodes! Pop. And they take me out of the soundstage on a stretcher. Craig Zadan and the producers, who were friends of mine and were very pro-me doing this movie go up to me and go, “Hey man, it’s cool. At the end of the day, we really decided, we’re just going to hire a dancer for the part”‘. Kevin Bacon got the role instead.
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