Let’s move on to the physical!
Jamie Lee Curtis teamed up with Jimmy Fallon to recreate his legendary Perfect aerobics scene on Tonight’s show Wednesday, nearly 40 years after the Oscar-winning actress and John Travolta performed his catchy choreography in the 1985 film.
To the tune of Jermaine Jackson and Whitney Houston1985’s “Shock Me,” the video initially begins with Curtis leading an aerobics class in his iconic striped one-piece. Fallon, replacing Travolta in the scene, can also be seen sweating his way through their risky routine.
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Things take a wonderfully absurd turn when Fallon decides to send Curtis a video of himself dancing, forcing him to take his phone out of his tight outfit and blow him a kiss. She, in turn, sensually eats a piece of pizza and pours herself champagne while continuing to roll her hips.
The pair continue to up the ante with their hilarious hijinks until the clip ends, with Fallon releasing a dove from the front of his padded shorts and Curtis using a defibrillator to propel a corpse into a hip thrust with the rest of the class . .
Fallon mocked the original dance sequence earlier in the segment, fanning his face after watching a clip and noting how there was “a lot of pushing.” “That scene lasted – I’m not kidding – for about five minutes, didn’t it? he asked.
Curtis laughing replied, “No, no, that scene lasted about seven minutes.”
Directed by James Bridges (The paper hunt), Perfect starred Travolta as Adam Lawrence, a Rolling Stone reporter who works on a story about the health club dating scene of the ’80s. While working on the story, he strikes up a relationship with suspicious training instructor Jessie Wilson (Curtis).
THE Last Showgirl The star then opened up about her conflicting feelings about filming the hilarious segment amid the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles. an Instagram post THURSDAY.
“I got dressed up and showed up for work here in town, with the recreation of the hip meme from the movie PERFECT, and was greeted with such warmth from @fallontonight @jimmyfallon and @questlove and their team,” she said. wrote. “It was complicated feeling like we were doing comedy in the middle of such profound tragedy across the country, but we did it.”
Curtis, who since publicly pledged $1 million towards the wildfire relief efforts, concluded: “The hug (Fallon) will always be remembered for supporting my fragile feelings, and I leave New York with the hopes, prayers and good thoughts of everyone on the coast Is when I return home. on the best coast and in my beloved City of Angels to help start repairing and rebuilding.