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Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'

Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.

I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water.

Some of the styles of dance in 'La La Land' I wish I had spent time on when I was a kid.

I've been doing African dance all my life.

I've danced hula since I was 5. My mom danced hula as well. It's been in my family from far back and really connected me to my ancestors.