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Luna hasn't truly danced on screen since 2004's &34;Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.&34; Diego Luna was anxious to dance in Kiss of the Spider Woman: 'I need many

Luna hasn't truly danced on screen since 2004's "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights."

Diego Luna was anxious to dance in Kiss of the Spider Woman: 'I need many tequilas'

Luna hasn't truly danced on screen since 2004's "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights."

By Maureen Lee Lenker

Maureen Lee Lenker

Maureen Lee Lenker is a senior writer at ** with over nine years of experience. An award-winning journalist, she's written for Turner Classic Movies, *Ms. Magazine*, *The Hollywood Reporter*, and more.

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Diego Luna is the first person to tell you he's not a dancer.

The *Andor *star is known more for intense dramas and action scenes than for tripping the light fantastic. But you'd never know it based on *Kiss of the Spider Woman, *in which Luna stars as political prisoner Valentin Arregui and pulls double duty as Armando, a fictional love interest in the eponymous movie within a movie.

The latter, as conceived here by writer-director Bill Condon, is a cross between song-and-dance man Gene Kelly and classic Hollywood star Ricardo Montalban. But in his regular life, Luna comes nowhere close to that type of fleet-footedness.

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"I need many tequilas to dance," he admits, sheepishly grinning. "I am not a dancer. It was a challenge, but a fun one to take. I flew to New York and I had a session with choreographer Sergio Trujillo, and that's the moment where we were like, 'Okay, I think there's a chance we will get there.'"

Diego Luna in 'Kiss of the Spider Woman'.

"He was very clear to me," Luna continues. "He said, 'This is about bringing layers, and you've got to be patient."

At first, Luna came up against a nuanced difference between career actors and dancers — the necessity of a mirror in one's work. "We don't work with mirrors," he says of actors. "Mirrors are no good to us. There's actors that cannot even see themselves on the monitors. Because it gets ruined, the process gets f---ed basically. Dancers are the opposite. They have to look at themselves all the time to understand what's not perfect. It took me a while to learn to see myself in that mirror without judging myself in a way that made me just run away."

For Luna, there was one key factor that made everything work for him — dancing with Jennifer Lopez. "It doesn't get better than that, you know?" he says with a laugh. "She was a great leader because she has so much rigor. She's always trying to get it better and better and better. It was fascinating to see how hard she works, and then how easy she makes it look."

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Indeed, Luna admits that learning his choreography and trying to perfect it was a rather miserable experience until he started working with Lopez. "I didn't start enjoying the journey until she came in," he says. "I was anxious and suffering. Suddenly, when she came in, Sergio said to me, 'I know you are worried, and you should be, but whatever you don't get right, she's going to make it look right. It's going to look great, because she's bringing that other thing that you are missing.'"

Tonatiuh and Diego Luna in 'Kiss of the Spider Woman'.

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Indeed, though Lopez is primarily known for her hip-hop and contemporary dance styles, she says returning to these more classic Broadway routines was like seeing an old friend. "I started with this style when I was a very little girl," she says. "I learned jazz, I learned ballet, I learned Broadway. So, it was like coming back to something that I had always done. It was a brush-up. It took time, but I was so excited. I had that vocabulary in my body already. So, it was like dusting it off of the shelf and making it shiny and new again."

*Kiss of the Spider Woman *is now playing.**

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