Name: Steve Zahn - Starring Alongside His Daughter in "She Dances” | The Daily Show
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I co-wrote it with my partner, Rick Gomez, who directed it.

I'm doing the dog-and-pony show, what we call it.

But here's what I'm most focused on right now.

but you're also a dance dad, which is what this movie looks at, being a dance dad.

Because spoiler alert, your daughter is in this movie.

You get to act with your daughter in this movie.

This is was that tough, taking that creative license?

You know, it's really I mean, yeah, this is a world that I was a part of for years and years and years.

And it's like your kids, like, they get it.

You automatically go into some subculture you never thought you'd be a part of.

And you're, like, hauling horses around the country or, like, at chess tournaments going, "Do it!" You know?

I was, you know, putting sets on stage, and yeah.

Takes his daughter to her last dance competition with her friend.

And yeah, and it's a comedy, but it's also about a family dealing with grief.

Now, when you're actually Steve the father at a dance competition, at what point are you like, "I want to turn this into art," a.k.a., "I want to stop paying attention to the competition and try to utilize this for my own artistic means"?

No, I kept I was at this last competition.

I took my daughter to a national nationals, our last one.

And I kept taking videos and sending, you know, calling my friends, Rick and Kobe.

And they were like, "Dude, this is crazy." It was at the Gaylord Hotel in Nashville.

It's like there's, like, a waterpark, and

there's, like, themed they have, like, their own themed, like, you know, like the moose.

And they have, like, a river that goes through it.

And there was, like, you could have a tour on a fake river.

Anyway, they were like, "That's crazy." Anyway, I want to do a movie about a dance competition.

And then you're like, at what point are you like, "I want to do it with my daughter"?

I mean, once the thought came to our brains, we were like, "Well, this will have to be Audrey." I mean, when we wrote it, there was no one else that could play the part, really.

It's honestly, it's joyful as an audience member to watch it, knowing both the story but knowing you guys together in a scene.

There's just something so heartwarming about seeing that.

But I have to imagine it being kind of a mind to be in a scene with your daughter acting because you're going through some grief at moments, some joy at moments.

I mean, yeah, it's my whole family's in this.

It's a snapshot of my life that'll always be there, you know?

But also, for all the other actors who are looking for work, it's sort of a you to them.

Ethan Hawk, thank God that guy's in a movie.

So glad you're looking out for the little guy in this, Steve.