Bruce Springsteen and Courteney Cox Reunite at US Open 40+ Years After ‘Dancing in the Dark’ Music Video
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NEED TO KNOW
- Bruce Springsteen and Courteney Cox reunited at the U.S. Open, over 40 years after the “Dancing in the Dark” music video
- Years later, Cox said that she would only do the dance moves she busted in the music video “as a joke”
- The music video won an MTV VMA, and the song earned Springsteen his first Grammy in 1985
Bruce Springsteen and Courteney Cox have us feeling nostalgic at the U.S. Open.
On Sunday, Sept. 7, the “Born to Run” singer and Friends album reunited over 40 years after Cox, 61, starred in the music video for Springsteen’s 1984 song “Dancing in the Dark.”
Cox and Springsteen, 75, were both at the Men’s Singles Final match for the U.S. Open in New Yorkand had interacted at one point during the tennis match between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner.
The actress was photographed as she approached the smiling musician and his daughter, Jessica Rae Springsteen, and said hello briefly before returning to her seat and her longtime partner, Johnny McDaid.
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The music video was directed by Brian De Palma and filmed at a Minnesota concert. Unbeknownst to Springsteen, the Scream star was an actress who had been brought in from New York.
Cox, meanwhile, considered it her biggest role in her career at that point, having only done two days on a soap opera and a New York telephone ad,” she said on Off Camera with Sam Jones in 2017.
“I walked into this big casting room and all these dancers were there,” she said at the time, reflecting on the audition. “And I was like, ‘I don’t think I’m in the right place because I can barely touch my toes.'”
In October 2018, Cox showed her support for Springsteen by attending his Broadway show Springsteen on Broadway.
Speaking with PEOPLE in 2019, she reflected on her dance moves 35 years after shooting the music video. “That was not good dancing on my part,” she said. “I would only do that as a joke.”
In 2024, Cox recreated her iconic dance in an Instagram video, responding to the prompt “asking my mom how she danced in the ’80s.”
At one point after busting a move to Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy,” she takes off her sweatshirt to reveal a Springsteen T-shirt and intercut the clip with the classic music video.
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The “Dancing in the Dark” music video went on to win the MTV VMA for Best Stage Performance. The song won Springsteen his first Grammy: Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male in 1985.
It was also nominated for Record of the Year.
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