Almost 20 years ago, Corbin Bleu starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Jump In! Today, the Broadway star is showing us he's still got his double dutch skills. #jumpin #disney
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The star posted a clip of himself jumping rope on a New York City street with his 2007 single "Push It to the Limit" from the DCOM playing in the background. Bleu starred alongside Keke Palmer in the movie, which premiered in January 2007. He's currently starring as Seymour Krelborn in an Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors.
"Double Dutch in between shows outside of our theatre! My Little Shop of Horrors family knows how to bring the community together!” Bleu, 35, captioned an Instagram video on Sunday, May 27. “Can’t believe it’s been almost 20 years since I’ve done this.”
The film followed the story of teenage Izzy Daniels (Bleu) a boxing prodigy who finds himself on a double dutch team coached by longtime friend Mary (Palmer). Throughout the movie, Izzy has to decide if he wants to be a Golden Gloves winner like his father or help his new friends win a regional Double Dutch championship.
Jump In! director Paul Hoen told Business Insider in a 2022 interview that Bleu and Palmer were some "of the most talented physical actors."
"What's just so amazing with that group of actors is that they could do all of that jump roping, It's amazingly hard, and all the tricks, they were completely into those and learning how to do them," said Hoen.
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Palmer has also reflected on her time making the movie, noting that she had her first kiss on camera with Bleu. “That was my first kiss in life,” Palmer expressed during an interview with Cosmopolitan in July 2020. “Even though that wasn’t my real first kiss, it was my actual first kiss … I remember just feeling excited and it was cool because I had a cool person to kiss...Corbin is pretty good looking.”
Palmer admitted she was “scared” as well. “The most fun part about this movie was that I was around my peers — people my own age,” she recalled.
While Jump In! was a standalone DCOM, director Hoen revealed that a lot of footage was left on the cutting room floor. “It took a long time to kind of cull it down,” he told Insider, explaining that the original 120 minutes of footage had to be cut for TV. “I don’t know that we pulled out full scenes, but a lot of the Double Dutch was just so thick, and it was just trying to find the rhythm of how we could cut all of it down, especially in those competitions.”
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