Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights'

00:00:00 You're here now. Face it. Make the best of it.

00:00:14 I'm gonna do something right this time.

00:00:27 ...and immediately called Misha "Mike."

00:00:41 ...to try to do something that carried the narrative forward...

00:00:59 That was the only thing they had.

00:01:14 He was everybody's friend. I was lucky that way.

00:01:30 They knew that there was gonna be something here...

00:01:50 And although he could do all the dancing...

00:02:03 To say that our country has not been racist in its past...

00:02:20 The film came out, it was incredible that three years later...

00:02:38 ...of communism is everybody's equal, we didn't think they had racism...

00:02:52 ...black studs.

00:03:10 You have Gregory Hines doing some of his best work ever.

00:03:31 It's good to see you smiling.

00:03:56 lt's recognized as an egocentric, narcissistic exercise.

00:04:24 And they seemed to be not so frightening to me anymore.

00:04:46 You know, he was approached many, many times about returning...

00:05:13 " As I grow to be older, is there a possible development...

00:05:37 ...who loved the country that she lived in...

00:06:00 We did move around in this film quite a lot.

00:06:23 The vast majority of Russians, even if they didn't...

00:06:48 They were about three or four days late.

00:07:31 ...studying how to film the dance the best.

00:08:28 ...that was originally danced by Jean Babilée.