Let’s get physical!
Jamie Lee Curtis was associated with Jimmy Fallon to recreate his legendary Perfect aerobics scene in tonight’s show on Wednesday, nearly 40 years after the Oscar-winning actress and Juan Travolta performed his hip choreography in the 1985 film.
To the tune of Jermaine Jackson and Whitney Houstonfrom the 1985 hit “Shock Me,” the video initially begins with Curtis leading an aerobics class in his trademark striped bathing suit. Fallon, replacing Travolta in the scene, can also be seen sweating and thrusting his hips through his daring routine.
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Things take a wonderfully absurd turn when Fallon decides to send Curtis a video of himself dancing, causing her to pull her phone out of her skintight suit and blow him a kiss. She, in turn, sensually eats a piece of pizza and pours champagne on top while continuing to move her hips.
The pair continue to up the ante with their hilarious antics until the end of the clip, with Fallon releasing a pigeon from the front of his padded shorts and Curtis using a defibrillator to shake a corpse and nudge it with his hip along with the rest of the class. .
Fallon poked fun at the original dance sequence at the beginning of the segment, fanning his face after watching a clip and noting that it had “a lot of oomph.” “That scene went on, I’m not kidding, for about five minutes, right?” asked.
Curtis, laughing, jokingly responded, “No, no, that scene was like seven minutes.”
Directed by James Bridges (The chase for paper), Perfect Travolta played Adam Lawrence, a Rolling Stone reporter who is working on a story about the 1980s gym dating scene. While working on the story, he develops a relationship with distrustful exercise instructor Jessie Wilson (Curtis ).
He last showgirl The star later opened up about her mixed feelings about filming the funny segment amid the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires in an Instagram post on Thursday.
“I got dressed up and showed up for work here in town, with the recreation of the hip and thrust meme from the movie, PERFECT, and was greeted so warmly by @fallontonight @jimmyfallon and @questlove and their team,” she said . wrote. “It was difficult to feel like we were doing comedy in the midst of such profound tragedy across the country, but we did it.”
Curtis, who since then publicly promised $1 million towards wildfire relief efforts, concluded: “The embrace [Fallon] They will always be remembered, and I leave New York City with the hopes, prayers and good thoughts of everyone on the East Coast as I return home to the best coast and to my beloved City of Angels to help get started. to repair and rebuild.”
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