So it makes sense that Hough was a little disappointed that they decided not to recreate the iconic scene where her character Ariel, the wild preacher's daughter, stands on top of two moving cars in the classic 1984 original.
"I was bummed that I couldn't do that because I'm an adrenaline junkie," the 23-year-old actress tells iVillage. But luckily her role in the Footloose remake (in theaters Oct. 14) wasn't completely danger-free. "My thing that we did in this version was hanging out of the racecar -- that was like reckless Ariel. That was amazing, and I got to do that stunt by myself...It was scary!"
But it was more than just the action scenes that made making the movie intimidating. Hough and costar Kenny Wormald recognized that it was risky to remake such a well-known film.
"We understand," Wormald says. "We were huge fans of the original, so we knew it was a daunting task to try to take a new stab at it. But we did it justice."
The star of the new "Footloose" remake reveals that even her relationship with longtime boyfriend, "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest, is going well.
"I'd met Ryan many times over the years, but we got together at the right time," she says.
“I got the movie when it was going to be the original director Kenny Ortega version,” she recalls, “and then when that all fell apart I read Craig Brewer's version and I thought, 'Oh, wow – This is what this movie should be.' He had the option of casting whoever he wanted. I think that he was kind of hoping that he could do that. I went and talked to him and convinced him and fought for it. I did a whole scene for him and I basically cried my way into the role. He hired me then, on the spot.”
Because of her confidence in her dance ability, Hough says she was more intent on nailing her acting footwork, particularly in a dramatic confrontation with her character’s dance-oppressing minister father, played by Dennis Quaid. “The most emotional scene was definitely the one in the church with Dennis, because that was very real for me,” she says. “It came a little bit natural to me to say all those things and to feel all those emotions, definitely. Physically that was an emotional day and you're exhausted, so that was tough.”
Her Hollywood dance card remains full: next up is director Adam Shankman’s film adaptation of the musical “Rock of Ages,” opposite Tom Cruise. “We had so much fun,” she says. “We kept everything that you loved from the play and then took the things that were a little like 'Whoa. How is that going to translate on the big screen?' – We took that out and put some cool other things in there, too. So it's really fun and really crazy. Most of my scenes are with Tom, and with Mary J. Blige and Diego Boneta. Tom’s incredible, he really is. He's so committed to everything he does, and I saw him as a rock star.”
Meanwhile, she’s got a second country album in the bag and awaiting release – “Maybe,” she says. “I mean, it's done. It's been a while since it's been done, and so I'm like, 'Well, I kind of want to rewrite some new things.' I would rather just release it online and just let fans hear the music that I already have, that I can't publish – but my label would get really mad.
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