Mira Sorvino busted out some severe dance strikes in 1997’s Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion — and she’s bringing them along with her into the Dancing With the Stars ballroom.
“When we started working together, there’s so many ideas,” Gleb Savchenko completely informed Us Weekly on Wednesday, September 13, of discovering out he could be paired with Mira, 55, for season 32. “So like, ‘Oh, we can create Romy and Michele theme and what are we doing for Disney Week? What are we doing for Halloween?’ All of those creative moments come together and you’re like, ‘Can’t wait, let’s go.’”
While the Oscar winner will likely be one of many 14 rivals on DWTS this season, she notably portrayed Romy White within the 1997 film reverse Lisa Kudrow’s Michele Weinberger. The movie noticed the 2 BFFs return to their highschool for a category reunion — and even featured a particular efficiency. Romy and Michele shared a highlight interpretative dance with Alan Cumming’s Sandy Frink.
When requested if season 32 will characteristic a tribute to Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Mira pressed that she doesn’t know neither is she “actually allowed to talk about” their dances.
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Gleb, 39, nonetheless, doubled down that they’ll embrace an homage. “There will be for sure, for sure,” he insisted on Wednesday. “People just got to tune in and vote for us [to see it]. Team Miraball.”
The Russia native and Mira’s — whose staff title is a play on the mirrorball trophy — ballroom adventures have been a long-held dream of hers.
Mira Sorvino and Gleb Savchenko. ABC/Andrew Eccles
“I’ve been watching the show for many years and I was like, ‘Oh, that would be so much fun. I’d love to do that.’ And it was just never really the right time and I never had that much time off between jobs,” the actress informed Us. “And now it was like, ‘OK, if I’m not going to do it now, when am I going to do it?’ This is sort of a year of taking chances for me because in June I did a residency at the Cafe Carlisle, singing, and I did a one-woman show, and it went well. It was terrifying and it went well. So this is my second challenge of things I have dreamed of doing for a while but hadn’t tackled. And so this is my great adventure.”
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Mira and Gleb have additionally been having “fun” of their early rehearsals. “It’s been great. I mean, all of the rehearsals, I think it kind of varies,” he informed Us. “Some of the days they’re hard because we’re learning something Mira’s never done before. And some days we would just sit and drink coffee and having a chat.”
DWTS premieres concurrently on ABC and Disney+ on Tuesday, September 26, at 8 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
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