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“Dancing With The Stars” darling Julianne Hough recently spoke with Entertainment Tonight about the upcoming film remake of Footloose. The country singer shares that she is, “really excited” about ‘Footloose,’ adding, “we’re still working out the nitty gritty details of scheduling and stuff, but I’m super excited. I feel like we have the best people working on it — Paramount, and Kenny Ortega, and the producers. So I’m getting really excited.”

It had been reported earlier that Julianne Hough had been ordered to take acting classes to secure her role in the upcoming Footloose remake. IMDB has posted news that Hough is set to take some acting lessons in hopes that they improve her acting abilities.

Sources revealed that she will need to show some advancement in that area in order to land the Footloose role. To read the report click here.

Variety reported earlier this month that “Dancing With the Stars” pro dancer and country singer Julianne Hough is set to star opposite Chace Crawford on Paramount’s upcoming remake of “Footloose,” contingent on working out scheduling.

It’s Hough’s first major film role. Crawford signed on a month ago to star after Zac Efron decided in March against taking on another song and dance flick after doing those duties on “High School Musical 3″ and “Hairspray.”

Paramount Pictures officially announced that the “Gossip Girl” star will play the lead role of Ren McCormack in the film “Footloose,” which will be directed by Kenny Ortega. The film will be produced by the highly successful team of Craig Zadan (a producer of the original “Footloose” in 1984) and Neil Meron.

Production on the movie is set to begin shooting in March 2010.