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\nAlix Earle’s dance on Tuesday night’s episode of Dancing with the Stars almost took a different tone, the influencer revealedWhile getting ready in her trailer for the night, the social media mogul posted a video explaining the thought process behind her and partner Val Chmerkovskiy’s dance to “Once Upon a Dream” by Lana Del Rey from the movie MaleficentShe also shared the other Disney character that she and Chmerkovskiy considered for Dancing with the Stars’ Disney Night<\/p>\n
Alix Earle<\/a> almost went a different route for her dance on Tuesday night’s Dancing with the Stars episode.<\/p>\n The influencer, 24, brought the house down during the fourth episode of the show’s 34th season, performing a Viennese waltz to “Once Upon a Dream” by Lana Del Rey from the movie Maleficent<\/a>. <\/p>\n Alongside her partner Val Chmerkovskiy<\/a>, the pair dressed up as Maleficent, who is the villain in the Disney version of the classic fairytale Sleeping Beauty, and Stefan, who is the father of Princess Aurora in the film.\n<\/p>\n Alix Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy.<\/p>\n Eric McCandless\/Disney<\/p>\n However, Earle revealed that the couple’s dance almost took a much different tone, sharing one of the other Disney characters that she and Chmerkovskiy considered before landing on the evil fairy.<\/p>\n In a video posted to her Instagram before the show aired, Earle can be seen getting all glammed up in her trailer.<\/p>\n Speaking to the camera, Earle said, “Originally for Disney night, we wanted to do either like a princess, or like Rapunzel and Flynn Ryder,” the social media mogul shared, as makeup artists added prosthetic cheekbones to her face \u00e1 la Angelina Jolie<\/a>,\u00a0who originally played Maleficent in the movie.\n<\/p>\n However, upon listening to songs from Tangled’s soundtrack, Earle said she decided that she wanted to go a separate way.<\/p>\n “I loved Tangled, but the songs are very happy, and I feel like we’ve been pretty happy the past few weeks, and I wanted to show a different character,” Earle shared. “That I can take on a different role for the dance.”\n<\/p>\n “I think I listened to every Disney song ever,” Earle said in the video.\n<\/p>\n Earle said she couldn’t stop listening to “Once Upon a Dream” in the car, which is when she knew she wanted to dance to the song.\n<\/p>\n Alix Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy on the Sept. 30 episode of ‘Dancing with the Stars.’.<\/p>\n Disney\/Eric McCandless<\/p>\n “At first I wanted to do Sleeping Beauty and then Val would be Maleficent,” she joked.<\/p>\n Going on, Earle described her dance with Chmerkovskiy as a “toxic back-and-forth” similar to the characters of Maleficent and her once-lover Stefan in the movie.<\/p>\n The pair earned a score of 24, with 8’s across the board from judges Carrie Anna Inaba<\/a>, Derek Hough<\/a> and Bruno Toniolo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Last evening’s episode<\/a> was Disney Night in honor of Disneyland Resort’s 70th Celebration and ended with the surprising elimination of wellness influencer Hilaria Baldwin<\/a> and her partner, Gleb Savchenko<\/a>.<\/p>\n