Sarah Jessica Parker had a ‘spark’ on ‘Footloose,’ co-star says
nypost.com“Footloose” followed Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon), a Chicago teen who moved to a small town where the local minister (John Lithgow) put a ban on dancing.
Singer starred as Ariel Moore, the minister’s rebellious daughter who was Ren’s love interest. Sarah Jessica Parker, 58 – who was only 18 at the time – played Rusty, Ariel’s friend.
The late Chris Penn, who died in 2006 at age 40, played Willard, who was Ren’s friend, and Rusty’s love interest. “Chris and I were good friends,” Singer, 66, exclusively told the Post. “We were very close.
And Sarah, I just loved from the get go. She had a spark. She was sweet. She was funny. She grabbed the role of being best friends.”“Se played a sidekick, but I thought Sarah was special from the first minute I met her,” she went on. “You can see it in the film.” Parker, of course, would go on to become a household name — as well as Bacon — as she starred as Carrie Bradshaw on “Sex and the City” for six seasons from 1998 to 2004.
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