25 Years After
When Jennifer Beals got the call in 1982 to fly to New York and audition for canada goose coats on sale a movie called Canada Goose Coats On Sale Flashdance, her agent described it as “kind of like Saturday Night Fever.” So it canada goose was only fitting that Beals, then 18, spent most of the trip simply stayin’ alive: The airline lost her luggage, and she was so low on cash that she had to bunk at a YMCA and eat only pine nuts and blueberries for two days. Despite all canada goose store that, “I remember just being blown away,” says Flashdance director Adrian Lyne. “She wasn’t the best dancer, but she had a very sweet cheap Canada Goose quality.”
Or, as Irene Cara canada goose black friday sale sings in the film’s famous Oscar winning song, Beals took Canada Goose Jackets her passion and made it happen. The married mom is still doing the same thing 25 years later as the star of Showtime’s drama The L Word. But the canada goose clearance sale actress, now Canada Goose Outlet 44, remains a heroine to fans of the 1983 film that made canada goose replica her a pop culture icon and inspired girls everywhere canadian goose jacket to wreak havoc on their sweatshirts with scissors. “I got hundreds of letters from people telling me how they’d changed the course of their life because of Flashdance,” says Beals, who played canada goose clearance Alex canada goose deals Owens, a buy canada goose jacket steel welder Canada Goose sale by day and exotic dancer by night. “The film has helped so many people follow their dreams.”
Before she won the https://www.cagooseclearance.com role, the Chicago native’s biggest dream had been to attend Yale University, where she was preparing to start her freshman year. Beals deferred her fall semester Canada Goose Online and set off for Flashdance’s Pittsburgh shoot. Filming “was hard, hard, hard,” she says (Lyne used stunt dancers for many of the film’s routines). “No one believed in us.” Beals returned to Yale, where she kept her head down even as the film exploded the following year. “Jodie Foster was already there at school,” she says, “so I wasn’t the first actor to be walking around campus.”
Beals went on to star in such movies buy canada goose jacket cheap as 1995’s Devil in a Blue Dress and 2003’s Runaway Jury before winning a loyal following as art curator Bette on The L Word. And while Flashdance “feels like another Cheap Canada Goose Parka lifetime” to her, the actress knows that for many, she’ll always be the girl in the torn top. with her Canadian entrepreneur husband, Ken Dixon, and their Canada Goose online 2 year old daughter (motherhood “is the best thing,” she says), has kept her Flashdance figure with running and yoga. She’s filming the French chess drama Joueuse (Queen to Play) with Kevin Kline before starting work on The L Word’s final season. And don’t look for her to pop in a DVD and relive her Flashdance days. “Maybe on my Canada Goose Parka 50th birthday,” she says with canada goose coats a laugh, adding that her life, a quarter century since Flashdance, “is very good.”.