I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.

I'm surprised by how many people have not seen 'Footloose.'

I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive political climate, an emotional climate to explore a town that has experienced a trauma and a shock, and starts overreacting.

I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.

There's something really special for a young person to sit in an audience and discover somebody, and it's rare to do because so much of a movie's economics are based on pre-existing actors or actresses.

I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.