You never forget your first few roles \u2014 especially when they involve the Boss!\n<\/p>\n
Four decades after Courteney Cox<\/a> was cast in the music video for Bruce Springsteen<\/a>‘s 1984 smash hit “Dancing In The Dark,” the pair reunited at the U.S. Open men’s singles final on Sunday for a brief, but sweet, moment.<\/p>\n The reunion was caught on camera<\/a> during the final between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner when Cox approached Springsteen, who was seated with his daughter, Jessica. The Scream<\/a> star bent down to share an embrace with the rock icon and exchanged some words. Springsteen introduced his daughter, whom Cox greeted with a handshake before making her way to her own seat.\n<\/p>\n Bruce Springsteen with his daughter Jessica at the 2025 U.S. Open men’s single’s final.<\/p>\n Clive Brunskill\/Getty<\/p>\n Although brief, it was a bright moment during which Springsteen looked happy to be reunited with Cox.\n<\/p>\n The Friends<\/a> star was 20 years old when she answered an ad to dance onstage with Springsteen on the opening night of his “Born in the U.S,A.” tour at the\u00a0Saint Paul Civic Center\u00a0in Saint Paul, Minn., in 1984. The concert was the second night of shooting for the Brian De Palma-directed music video,\n<\/p>\n At the end of the video, Springsteen invites Cox out of the audience to dance along with him on stage. In his memoir, Born to Run, Springsteen shared that he thought Cox was just a pre-selected fan<\/a> and didn’t know that she was a professional actress brought in from New York City until afterward.<\/p>\n In 2017, Cox \u2014\u00a0whose only other credit at the time was As the World Turns \u2014 admitted that she had been secretly hoping to not be picked.\n<\/p>\n Courteney Cox and Johnny McDaid at the 2025 U.S. Open.<\/p>\n XNY\/Star Max\/GC Images<\/p>\n “Someone said, ‘Okay, so Bruce is going to pick one of you out of the audience,’ and I was like, no. I did not want to be the one to go,” she recalled during an interview on <\/a>The Off Camera Show with Sam Jones<\/a>. “I don’t want to dance for 30,000 people! It was a full concert and we did the song twice, back to back.”\n<\/p>\n But as fate would have it, Cox was the girl picked, and she danced her heart out on that stage. Not long after, she was cast on the hit sitcom Family Ties, and her career blossomed.\n<\/p>\n And clearly Cox has accepted her place in the Music Video Dance hall of fame. In 2024, she recreated her unforgettable moves for a TikTok video.\n<\/p>\n No more dancing in the dark for this star!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n And as for Springsteen, his moves will be heading to the big screen when his upcoming biopic comes out next month.\n<\/p>\n The Bear star Jeremy Allen White<\/a> plays the music legend in Scott Cooper’s Soringsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere<\/a>, which the actor described as chronicling the “pivotal moment in Bruce’s life struggling to reconcile the ghosts of his past.”\n<\/p>\n The biopic explores Springsteen’s upbringing in Freehold, N.J., and the recording of his stark and\u00a0soulful 1982 acoustic album Nebraska, which he recorded on a four-track recorder in his New Jersey bedroom.\n<\/p>\n In a June interview with\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/a>, Springsteen shared that he chose to stay away from set<\/a> at times to allow the actors “to feel completely free.”\n<\/p>\n “If there was a scene coming up that was sometimes really deeply personal, I wanted the actors to feel completely free, and I didn\u2019t want to get in the way, and so I would just stay at home,” Springsteen explained. “If Scott Cooper, the director, wanted or needed me there for something, I would try to make it.”\n<\/p>\n That said, Springsteen praised White for being “very, very tolerant of me the days that I would appear on the set.”\n<\/p>\n Jeremy Allen White in ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’.<\/p>\n 20th Century Studios<\/p>\n Want more movie news? Sign up for Entertainment Weekly<\/a>‘s free newsletter<\/a> to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more.<\/p>\n Deliver Me From Nowhere also stars\u00a0Jeremy Strong<\/a>\u00a0as Jon Landau,\u00a0a music critic-turned-Springsteen’s producer and manager;\u00a0Paul Walter Hauser<\/a>\u00a0as Mike Batlan, who helped Springsteen set up a low-tech recording setup in his New Jersey bedroom;\u00a0Marc Maron<\/a>\u00a0as Chuck Plotkin, the producer who mastered the singer’s\u00a0Nebraska\u00a0recordings; and\u00a0Stephen Graham<\/a>\u00a0(Adolescence<\/a>) as Springsteen’s father, Douglas.\n<\/p>\n The film arrives in theaters on Oct. 24.<\/p>\n