Save the Last Dance

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1. #001

   This was Kerry Washington's first major role. At the time she was working as a substitute teacher, and the film paid so little that she had to go back to that job. As a result, she switched to taking only elementary school positions, since high school students would come just to "watch Chenille teach French."

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2. #002

   Director Thomas Carter cast Julia Stiles as Sara after seeing her "table dance" in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999).

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3. #003

   On The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003), Kerry Washington revealed that she saved the money she earned from this film to buy her first laptop.

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4. #004

   Producers initially wanted to shoot at Mount Assisi Academy, an all-girls Catholic school in Lemont. When they asked the school whether its religious decorations could be removed, the principal refused.

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5. #005

   It earned $27,526,443 in its opening weekend, the biggest opening to date for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.

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6. #006

   During Derek and Sarah's first dance rehearsal in the school cafeteria, the entire scene was completely improvised by Sean Patrick Thomas; the cameras caught him murmuring instructions to Julia Stiles even though she already knew how to dance.

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7. #007

   In the first draft of the screenplay, Sara lived with her mother in Pennsylvania before moving to Baltimore to live with her father. When the film was shot, the locations were Lemont, IL and Chicago, respectively.

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8. #008

   In many scenes (especially the one where Derek first teaches Sara to dance in the cafeteria and the one where Sara is upset while waiting for the bus because Derek tries to talk about his mother), Sara's and Derek's clothes mirror each other's, symbolizing that they are the yin to each other's yang.

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9. #009

   The audition scene at the beginning of the film was shot at the Athenaeum Theatre in Chicago.

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10. #010

    Nicholas Goodman was initially hired to direct but was fired early in production.

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11. #011

    In one scene in the film, Sara's father mentions that she is 17 years old. In fact, Julia Stiles, the actress playing Sara, was 19 when the film was shot. Stiles actually turned 20 two months after the film's premiere.

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