The actress was barely 20 years old when she filmed the video, many years before she found fame via the hit sitcom Friends. (UCR)
The then-unknown Cox was selected for “Dancing in the Dark” by the clip’s director, Brian De Palma.
“I thought I was in the wrong place,” the actress recalled during a recent appearance on the Howard Stern Show, noting that most of the other women at the audition were professional dancers. “I was like, ‘I don’t know what they’re doing but I can’t even bend my leg. This is it.’ I went into on Brian De Palma’s office. He put on the music and said, ‘Well, you dance.’ And I thought, ‘Right now? Here? In front of you? Just the two of us?'”
Referring to Springsteen as “incredible,” Cox admitted she still listens to “Dancing in the Dim.” “I enjoy that tune. I get a very little humiliated since I do experience like when I check out the movie, when I see it. I imply, God. Did you see my dance? It was pathetic,” the actress declared. “I’m not a terrible dancer, but that was horrible. I was so nervous.”
Springsteen released his 20th studio album, ‘Letter To You’, last year. A film that accompanied the LP was also released.
Springsteen has appeared at 13 Stand Up for Heroes events, only missing in 2017 due his busy “Springsteen on Broadway” schedule. At a previous show, Springsteen auctioned off a motorcycle and dinner featuring his “mom’s lasagna.”
Meanwhile, the Boss recently became the first artist to have a Top Five album in each of the last six decades.
Springsteen scored two Top Five albums on the Billboard Hot 200 in the 1970s, first with ‘Born To Run’ and later with ‘Darkness On The Edge Of Town’. In the ‘80s, he hit the upper levels of the chart with the Number One album ‘The River’, along with ‘Nebraska’, ‘Born In The USA’, ‘Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 1975-1985’, and ‘Tunnel Of Love’.
The ‘90s, meanwhile, saw him score a Number Two and Number Three album with ‘Human Touch’ and ‘Lucky Town’ respectively, and a Number One with his 1995 ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation. A decade later, ‘The Rising’, ‘Devils & Dust’, ‘We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions’, ‘Magic’ and ‘Working On A Dream’ all charted within the Top Five.
