16.
Iscove
had
to
fight
to
keep
the
now-iconic
prom
scene
in
the
movie,
explaining
to
Cosmo
he
really “wanted
a
big
dance
number”
despite
the
studio’s
reservations.
The
solution:
More
scenes
with
Usher,
who
played
the
school’s
D.J.
(Hey,
it
was
the ’90s!)
“That’s
why
we
went
back
and
shot
more
Usher
stuff
[of
him]
saying ‘Remember
what
I
taught
you
in
dance
class’
or
whatever,”
he
said. “We
went
back
and
shot
more
scenes
with
Usher
in
Chicago,
which
was
where
he
was
doing
an
album,
and
intercut
more.”
17.
One
person
who
was
not
happy
with
the
dance
number
was
Dulé
Hill,
who
was “pissed
that
he
wasn’t
able
to
tap
dance,”
according
to
Prinze.
“Dulé’s
this
world-class
tap-dancer,”
Prinze
told
The
Daily
Beast. “When
we
were
shooting
the
volleyball
sequence
at
the
beach,
I
heard
him
sliding
and
tapping
his
feet
on
the
wood,
and
I
said, ‘Are
you
tap
dancing?’
And
he
said, ‘I’m
a
hoofer,
man.’
And
that’s
how
we
bonded.
We
started
going
to
this
dance
studio
in
Hollywood
and
we’d
tap
dance.
We
did
it
all
the
time.”
18.
The
number
was
choreographed
by
Adam
Shankman,
who
would
go
on
to
direct
A
Walk
to
Remember,
The
Wedding
Planner
and
Hairspray,
among
other
films.
Prinze
and
Shankman
immediately
hit
it
off
while
filming
the
movie,
so
much
so
that
he
played
a
large
role
in
Prinze’s
2002
wedding.
As
he
told
Today, “The
choreographer
from
She’s
All
That
married
my
wife
and
I!”
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