Summer Glau, Terpsichorean Terminator
I’ve written before about how the real training for an action star should be in dance. The new Batman? Christian Bale, a trained dancer. Jackie Chan? Dancer in the Chinese Opera. And if, like me, you were in love with Joss Whedon’s Firefly, you thrilled to see Serenity, where Summer Glau gave more than a glimpse of the virtuosic control she has of her body.
But all of these examples are not really examples of dancing for the camera; they’re examples of people who have used their dance training to augment the fight choreography of their scenes in movies. Of course, there are also rumors that Joss Whedon is working with Glau on a new movie purely about dance…
Until that happy day, I am thrilled to see the writers for the Sarah Connor Chronicles on FOX come up with a perfectly legitimate reason that the Terminator played by Summer should be a highly-trained ballet dancer…in fact, it uses the act of dancing as a foreshadowing of some impending changes in the robotic killer, and in the end the delightful little pas de chat is more menacing than anything else. Take a look:
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