16 Usually Cool Actors Dancing Like Noone Is Watching

15. Patrick Swayze - Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing Gif Johnny is the epitome of cool, who danced his way into everyone's hearts, despite the fact that dancing is not exactly the coolest thing in the world, and yet even he wasn't free from akwardness. But then, he was overcome with raw sexual desire for an underage girl (not strongly mentioned in the marketing campaign, for obvious reasons) and a man possessed isn't always in control of his thrusting loins or air guitaring. And at least he wasn't anywhere near as awkward as his competition for Baby's affections... Dirty Dancing 2 Gif

14. Robert Carlyle - The Full Monty

Robert Carlyle Gif He was one of the most fearsome Bond villains, made Stargate (briefly) cool again and he was easily the most menacing and iconic part of the Danny Boyle's incredible Trainspotting adaptation, but he also took his clothes off in The Full Monty, and ruined all of his cool credentials by attempting to dance. Combining a mullet that was already outdated by the 1990s with the kind of dance moves that would make Mr Bean blush is not the best way to make yourself look good, but then who actually cares when the resulting feeling is the skin-tingling joy that meets the climactic dance at the end of the uplifting Brit-Mis classic?

13. Jon Favreau - Swingers

Favreau Gif Looking at Jon Favreau these days - the man, remember, who basically made Iron Man a viable and bankable property, and thus set the strong foundation on which The Avengers was built - you wouldn't think that he had it in him to make some killer shapes, but way back before Vince Vaughn had made everyone suspect he wasn't really a great guy, that's precisely what he did in Swingers. Opposite Heather Graham, Favreau starred in the film's crowning dance number, recalling the iconic dance sequence from Pulp Fiction, without the self-conscious irony.
 
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