![]() ![]() ![]() “And then I went into the ballet world and it was like I just started to blossom. I was just like this weird little thing that like kind of was stunted in my growth,” she admitted. Being one of six kids and being such an introvert and not really being nurtured in a way that like I didn’t have communication skills. “She is so much more confident than I was at that age and I tell her that all the time. Misty grew up to be an iconic dancer, but she wasn’t always as confident. “We actually met when she was 11-years-old and I’ve been mentoring her on and off since then and now she’s in the company. It’s incredible to be able to lend my experiences and help to guide this next generation and hopefully not have the same troubles that I had or make the same mistakes or just know how to navigate,” she shared. It’s amazing to have someone with me, I was alone for so long. “There’s a young girl at American Ballet Theater, Erica Loll. Misty currently mentors a Black girl at the American ballet. We’re going to the beach and that’s become our tradition.” “My holiday traditions with my husband is, ‘Let’s get out of the city.’ I don’t want to be in the snow or the cold. Misty’s holiday tradition looks a little different these days. When I first moved to New York City, everyone would come to my place for Thanksgiving and Christmas and like I would make everything,” she gushed. ![]() “I’ve always been someone that really enjoyed the holidays. The nutcracker is a tradition among many families and Misty knows a thing or two about that since she’s created her own traditions over the years. “It’s a small part of the film, but it links everything together and then there’s like a fun little bit that we have at the end of the credits.” And then there’s like the dark fourth real,” she explained. So, you know, the land of the sweets and the flowers and the snow. there is almost no dancing in the film aside from the dance sequences involving ballerina Misty Copeland. The Nutcracker and Drosselmeyer are played by black actors for the first time in any filmed version of the story. “It’s Keira Knightley and Mackenzie Foy and they’re all sitting there watching me perform a ballet within the movie and through my movement of the ballet, I’m telling the stories of the realms. The 33-year-old will star in The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, to be directed by Lasse Hallstrom Misty made the announcement on Instagram, sharing a photo of a copy of the film's script. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) Trivia on IMDb: Cameos, Mistakes. Misty’s character, the Ballerina, was added into the film to incorporate the integral dance sequence through which we learn about the four realms. “People can look at that and be like, that’s what a ballerina looks like.” “There’s a brown ballerina in the nutcracker film and that’s going to live on forever,” she said during a candid chat at a Nutcracker And The Four Realms pop-up in NYC. ![]()
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