A decade earlier than Monica Geller got here into our residing rooms, Courteney Cox was simply Bruce Springsteen‘s largest fan.
The Associates alum threw it again to her look in Bruce Springsteen’s 1984 music video for ‘Dancing within the Darkish’ as she jumped on a TikTok pattern that asks mother and father how they danced throughout the decade.
“1980’s dancing…in the dead of night,” Cox captioned the video.
Within the clip, she begins dancing to the 1984 synth-pop hit ‘Smalltown Boy’ by Bronski Beat, which is often used with the social pattern.
Trying uncomfortable throughout her dance, Cox then strips off her hoodie to disclose the identical Springsteen t-shirt she wore within the “Dancing within the Darkish” video because the observe modifications and she or he recreates her dance.
Cox was 20 years outdated when she was chosen by director Brian De Palma from a casting name for the video, which was filmed on the opening evening of Springsteen’s Born within the USA Tour in Saint Paul, Minnesota and featured The Boss pulling her out of the group to bop on stage with him.
Though Cox beforehand mentioned the video “obtained me within the door to so many locations,” she admitted on Off Digicam in 2017 that she “didn’t need to be the one” picked to go onstage.
The Shining Veil actress defined that she initially filmed one other sequence along with her character’s associates, preparing earlier than the live performance, which didn’t make it into the ultimate reduce. The actresses had been informed that one among them could be picked to go onstage, however not which one.
Courteney Cox and Bruce Springsteen movie the video for ‘Dancing within the Darkish’ on June 27, 1984 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. (Photograph by Paul Natkin / WireImage)
“I don’t not need to be the one to should go,” mentioned Cox. “I didn’t need to dance in entrance of 30,000 folks. It was a full live performance, and we did the music twice, again to again.”
Cox, who had solely completed two days of labor on Because the World Turns on the time, later went on to her star-making position in Associates from 1994 to 2004.
