| Yes, but that's the fear; fear is the major factor. The realisation that whatever you do on film is going to be there for a while: it's a good motivator, as good as you can get. The Director, Peter Chelsom was actually there at the very first lesson I had and we were all kind of worried. It was horrible and it was horrible for a long time! We actually took a lot of things from that first lesson and put it in the movie. The bit with the stick? My first teacher in my first lesson was trying to tell me how to keep my arms up in this peculiar way and she grabbed this piece of two by four from the corner and it of course led to my utter humiliation. In actual fact, the first rehearsal was in a studio half the size of this room. At the back was a glass wall and there was this extraordinary beautiful Argentine girl doing the tango on the other side. I was dancing so badly and I really couldn't believe it because I so wanted to look good in front of this beautiful girl. But it was so much like the movie that we ended up actually designing the room in the film exactly like that rehearsal studio in New York |