Johanna Colón is dishing on her new movie Feel The Beat!
The young actress plays Lucia, a sweet but clumsy firecracker, who gets strange looks from the other dancers because of her size, but to her that makes her more confident and she doesn’t care; she still loves to dance!
Johanna dished that she actually auditioned for another role but, the producers “fell in love with her during casting and decided they wanted her in the movie so they created the part of Lucia for her.“ They even asked her ethnicity and made sure that her character would also be Latina so that she could represent her culture.
She also shared a moment during her audition that they included in the movie!
“There was actually a part in my audition where my glasses feel off, I picked them up and just started dancing with them. The producers loved this so much that they actually added this as a scene in the movie,” Johanna told JJJ.
“There is a scene where I have to stand in the rain to get my part of the scene. I remember it being really cold and glasses kept having to be fixed. In between takes Sofia would come over and hug me so tight with my blanket. She is one of the sweetest people I have ever met,” she gushed about her co-star Sofia Carson. Check out a photo in the gallery!
“I’m living my dream! I hope to give girls who look like me who are told they can’t be movie stars a chance to see. We are fierce, we are bold, we are stars,” Johanna said.
Be sure to check out Feel The Beat on Netflix right now. It’s currently (at the time this was posted) the number five movie in the US on the streaming service!
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We are exactly ONE WEEK away from Sofia Carson‘s brand new movie Feel The Beat!
The trailer for the movie was just released, where the 27-year-old actress and singer plays the talented, self-centered dancer April, who is banished from Broadway, and grudgingly moves back in with her dad (Enrico Colantoni) in her small Wisconsin hometown.
Trying her best to avoid everyone in her tight-knit community, including her first love Nick (Wolfgang Novogratz), April is reluctantly recruited by her former dance teacher (Donna Lynne Champlin) to coach the town’s misfit group of young dancers.
Initially believing she’s found the path back to Broadway, April gains so much more. A love letter to small towns, Feel The Beat is a heartwarming comedy about chasing your dreams.
McKenna Grace shows off her dress while attending the premiere of her new movie Troop Zeroheld at Pacific Theatres at The Grove on Monday (January 13) in Los Angeles.
Troop Zero is set in rural 1977 Georgia, where a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a national competition offers her a chance at her dream, to be recorded on NASA’s Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troop of Birdie Scouts, forging friendships that last a lifetime and beyond. Check out the trailer below!
