One which, when you consider some of her later roles, kind of makes sense. The real work that Glau was dedicating her early life to was dancing whilst she always had an interest in acting, to begin with, it was all about the ballet. She still keeps up her dance training, albeit a few times a week as opposed to the intensive amount she did when she was younger, and her experience almost landed her a part in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan until that particular character was written out of the script. Which is disappointing, because Glau has a lot more experience in ballet than anybody else in that movie. I was a very shy girl, but I love the way dancers express their feelings through movement instead of with words, she's since said of her decision to take on that most punishing of dance styles. Whilst she never made it big in the world of ballet, she did teach classes for a while. In fact Glau trained so much and was so good that she got to the level of prima ballerina, but had to stop because of an injury. An injury caused because she leapt over a camel saddle her family kept in their living room for some reason, an bust her foot on the fireplace. How did she not realise it was there? Because she was preocuppied with a script for a play she had in her hands. It's like it was fate or something.
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