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A Look Inside Starz's "Flesh and Bone"

It's Center Stage meets Breaking Bad.

Released on 08/11/2015


If I call your number, step forward,

one, one, five,

one, two, seven,

and one, two, two.

We start the series with Claire,

leaving home and coming to New York City

to try to become part of a major ballet company.

It says here you were an apprentice

at the Pittsburgh Ballet and took a leave of absence

and nothing since, I'm confused.

Claire is very complicated.

She's suffered a lot of adversity.

You a ballerina?


Got any Vicodin, Oxy, Percosset?

[Moira] And now she's making one last kinetic thrust

out of her life and into a future.

Please let me dance.

Just two minutes of your time.

Impress me.

The Artistic Director, Paul,

is priest, king, father, lover,

he doesn't have any boundaries.

I'd like you

to get out of my sight.

He wants his company to be

the most successful company that it can be

and Claire is very special.

The moment this jewel lands in his lap

he will exploit that as far as he can.

She's brilliant, I can make her.

She can make us.

What did I tell you?


Every character has a really unique backstory

and it takes the series

in really sensational gripping directions.

Can you keep a secret?

I'm good at secrets.

It's a show showing the gritty underbelly

of the ballet world.

It asks you to really go to places

that most people don't let themselves go to.

This is really a show about people

trying to figure out their place

and struggling with very human, dark impulses we all have.

Fuck you.

Flesh and Bone is extreme.

It gets right into the dirty corners of the human psyche.

Is it the right thing to do?

The right thing is everything.

And then on the other hand it's incredibly beautiful.

It's spectacular.

Each of you need to look deep inside

and ask yourselves if this is where you belong.

Starring: Sarah Hay, Ben Daniels, Sascha Radetsky, Raychel Diane Weiner

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