James Maslow: Joey Fatone Convinced Me To Do 'DWTS'

James Maslow suits up for the premiere of Veronica Mars held at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Wednesday night (March 12).

“Hanging with my boy @jason_dohring on the red carpet of his movie premiere. Be sure to see him in @veronicamars!,” the 23-year-old actor wrote on Twitter at the event.

James recently confessed to Parade that he took advice from former boy band-er Joey Fatone on joining the new season of Dancing With The Stars.

” I had talked to [NSYNC's] Joey Fatone before I did and asked about his experience, and his answers are part of the reason I decided to do it….The first thing he said was that ‘it’s a ton of fun, dude I totally recommend doing it, I had a blast, it’s a lot of work.’ And everybody has kind of said that, ‘you know, it’s a lot of work but it’s fun.’ It is a heck of a lot of work, let me tell you,” James shared.

He added, “Just going hours and hours on the same things, the same dance�I’ve put entire tours together in just five days, but you’re doing different songs and you’re never focused on one thing, but it’s movement that I’m used to. This is so different, it’s movement that has to look a certain way because that is the style. It’s not like you can just do what looks good on your body, you have to make your body look good doing something that was invented a long time ago. It’s tough. Three or four hours in I just want to stop and do something else, but I can’t. So I see how it’s going to get even more difficult, but he was right in the first place when he said it’s fun.”

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