A decade earlier than Monica Geller got here into our dwelling rooms, Courteney Cox was simply Bruce Springsteen‘s greatest fan.
The Pals 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.
Wanting 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 monitor modifications and he or she recreates her dance.
Cox was 20 years previous when she was chosen by director Brian De Palma from a casting name for the video, which was filmed on the opening night time of Springsteen’s Born within the USA Tour in Saint Paul, Minnesota and featured The Boss pulling her out of the gang to bop on stage with him.
Though Cox beforehand mentioned the video “acquired me within the door to so many locations,” she admitted on Off Digicam in 2017 that she “didn’t wish 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 lower. The actresses had been instructed that considered one of them can 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 wish to be the one to should go,” mentioned Cox. “I didn’t wish to dance in entrance of 30,000 folks. It was a full live performance, and we did the tune twice, again to again.”
Cox, who had solely accomplished two days of labor on Because the World Turns on the time, later went on to her star-making function in Pals from 1994 to 2004.