Save the Last Dance turns 20.The two actors, who played Sara and Derek respectively, spoke for the first time in 15 years to mark the occasion.Reflecting on the fact that the film’s success endures, Thomas told Entertainment Tonight: “I never would have expected that, to have people still talking about it 20 years later.”“I’m really proud,” Stiles said of the film, in which she plays the mid-western girl who moves to Chicago and falls in love with Thomas’ character, a Black teenager from the South Side.“When we made the film, I was like, ‘Really?
This is still an issue? People don’t approve of a Black guy and a white girl together?’ It opened my eyes.”Kerry Washington, who also starred in the film, posted a tribute for the anniversary last.
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