What a feeling! ‘Flashdance’ cast look back on 40 years of the ‘80s classic

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“Flashdance … What a Feeling” performed by the late Irene Cara.“People would come out of that movie and be leaping and dancing and laughing and, you know, their cares would have been taken away for a couple of hours,” said Durga McBroom, who played Heels, one of Alex’s stripper besties at the fictional Mawby’s Bar. “It’s just a real feel-good movie [that] makes no sense,” she continued. “Let’s face it — the story is stupid.

A welder by day and a stripper at night?? Come on now!”Although “Flashdance” (which will return to theaters for 40th anniversary screenings on April 26 and 30) may have been far-fetched — and dating your much older boss as an 18-year-old certainly wouldn’t fly in today’s post-MeToo era — it was the perfect ’80s film fantasy.

Here, cast and crew remember some behind-the-scenes moments. Leading man Michael Nouri beat out the likes of Kevin Costner and Mickey Rourke for the part of Nick Hurley, Alex’s boss.

He was cast without even doing a chemistry test with Beals. “Adrian really fought for us,” he said.And McBroom originally auditioned for the starring role of Alex that turned Beals into an overnight sensation. “I saw an ad for an open casting call for a dance audition for the lead part of Alex, and I knew I wasn’t gonna get it, but I was really studying dance at the time, so I went,” said McBroom, who ended up getting the supporting role of Heels.For Kyle T.