Before they were your favorite superheroes, Oscar-winners and Hollywood heartthrobs, did you know that these actorsactuallygot their start shaking what their mamas gave them? These videos of your favorite male celebs dancing must be seen to be believed. What are you waiting for? A-five, six, seven, eight!

Tom Holland

Channing Tatum

TheMagic Mikestar got his start exotic dancing at a Miami club, Male Encounters. Tatum"doesn’t regret a thing"about his dancing beginnings, and who can blame him: his breakout role in the dance movieStep Upmade him a household name andintroduced him to his (now ex-) wife and mother of his child, Jenna Dewan.

Colin Farrell

Would you have ever guessed that Colin Farrell used to teach line dancing in Dublin, Ireland before he was famous? This clip (though not in English) shows Farrell in a cut off shirt, cowboy hat and boots, giving off some major yee-haw energy.

Christopher Walken

Jamie Bell

TheRocketmanactor got his start at 14 years old, when he played the titular character in the film version ofBilly Elliot. He studied ballet after deciding to tag along to his sister’s ballet class … and the rest is history for the British actor.

Christian Bale

Before he was Batman, Christian Bale was the star ofNewsies– and while he may now call the role “embarrassing,” we invite you to seize the day and watch him do some interpretive fancy footwork. He picked up some moves asthe only boy in his ballet class in Walesbefore he became a child star.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

The action star and martial artist studied ballet for five years, saying in an interview with theChicago Tribunein 1993, “I was always attracted to ballet because of the dexterity, the stretching, the grace, and the fact that you are able to control without showing any pain in your face. People think ballet is, like, usual, but it’s not. It’s very hard to do. It’s very hard to be able to put your shoulders down and keep your hips straight and your legs spread like this, and hold somebody in one hand on one feet. So I mixed the grace and the movement with the power of karate. It’s been a big help in my movies.”

He says that he could have gone pro with his dancing prowess. “I was about 16, 17 when I started. Then they wanted me to go with a professional company in Paris, because they needed so much good male dancers,” he explains, “They’re not easy to find. Americans, of course, think ballet is for sissies. But they are very wrong.”

Tupac

Tupac attended the Baltimore School of The Arts in 1986, where he studied acting, poetry, jazz and, yes, ballet! He even played the role of the Mouse King in the school’s production ofThe Nutcracker.

Chris Messina

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Thank you, Mindy Kaling, for making Chris Messina dance onThe Mindy Project.But before he played Danny Castellano, he was a kid who dreamed of winning Mr. Dance of the United States. That’s not an exaggeration. As Messinatells it, “It was a modern dance. I remember I was barefoot. I wanted to be Baryshnikov, I loved dance so much. But I lost, and looking back, I should have, because I was terrible. I still love dance.”

Nev Schulman

Shulman danced for much of his young adult life, even majoring in photography and dance at Sarah Lawrence College from 2004-2006.

Alfonso Ribeiro

Before “The Carlton” became a thing onTheFresh Prince of Bel-Air,Alfonso Ribeiro showed off his moves on Broadway at age eight inThe Tap Dance Kid. He also landed a spot in a Pepsi commercial that featured Michael Jackson in 1984andhad his own dance instruction book,Alfonso’s Breakin' & Poppin' Book.

Taylor Lautner

Before there wasTwilight, Lautner loved karate and hip hop dancing. Please see the above video of pre-teen Lautner for evidence!

If anyone evertells you that men don’t dance, turn around and show them these videos as proof that they do–theysodo.

source: people.com