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Julia Stiles joining Dancing with the Stars came with one very obvious question: Would she bring Save The Last Dance to the ballroom<\/a>? <\/p>\n The answer is yes and it happened in Week 5 \u2014 her former co-star even joined Stiles for a literal nod to the 2001 film.<\/p>\n During Tuesday’s live show \u2014 themed Super Bowl night \u2014 the actor and her partner, Ezra Sosa, performed a hip-hop ballet combo to Jennifer Lopez’s Jenny from the Block.<\/p>\n It was a clear homage to the 2001 hit film, when Stiles played Sara Johnson, a ballet dancer who dreamed of getting into Juilliard and fell in love with hip-hop dancer Derek Reynolds, played by Sean Patrick Thomas.<\/p>\n Here’s how it went down<\/p>\n Roughly halfway through the routine, Sosa stepped aside to give Stiles a solo moment to perform her iconic choreography straight from the film. <\/p>\n As Stiles took centre stage, the camera panned over to reveal Thomas on the sidelines re-enacting another classic film moment: nodding along to the performance with his jacket slung over his shoulder, alongside Sosa.<\/p>\n “I’ve been wanting to do that for 25 years,” Stiles told co-host Julianne Hough after the performance. <\/p>\n And as you can imagine, the crowd erupted in cheers.\u00a0<\/p>\n WATCH | Julia Stiles recreates Save the Last Dance moments on DWTS:<\/p>\n In the rehearsal video that played ahead of the performance, Sosa told the audience: “This one is for the millennials.”<\/p>\n “This is my chance for the do-over I’ve always wanted, so I have to just go out there and own it. I have no other choice,” Stiles said.\u00a0<\/p>\n And it paid off. The routine won over the judges, scoring the duo their first 8s and 9s of the season. They were also safe from elimination.<\/p>\n Sean Patrick Thomas and Sosa recreate a moment from the 2001 film Save the Last Dance on Dancing with the Stars, cheering on Stiles. (YouTube\/Dancing with the Stars\/Disney)<\/p>\n Social media is filled with fans and fellow stars reacting to the moment, even J.Lo herself.<\/p>\n “Crushed it!!” she wrote on the show’s Instagram post, alongside a comment from Jersey Shore star Snooki, who wrote, “Anyone else cry????”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “I wouldn’t call this jazz… BUTTTTT IT WAS DEFINITELY AN AMAZING PERFORMANCE BY JULIA & EZRA!!!! This is Julia Stiles fully letting loose,” one fan wrote on X.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"two](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792001896_868_default.jpg\")
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