Miranda Cosgrove Had To Face This Major Fear Filming Mother of the Bride With Brooke Shields

Starring in a film with Brooke Shields and Benjamin Bratt on the other side of the world may be a little daunting. After all, the two are pros in the industry. But for Miranda Cosgrove, who plays Shields’ soon-to-be-wed daughter in Mother of the Bride, another fear started creeping in: having to dance.

“I have an insane fear of dancing in public,” Cosgrove admits to SheKnows. “I’m a horrible dancer.”

Much like Mamma Mia!, Cosgrove’s new Netflix romantic comedy (out today!) has a dance sequence at the end. “Maybe a week into making the movie Mark Waters, the director, came over and was like, ‘We’re going to have this huge like dance sequence and you guys are going to work with choreographers here in Thailand on the weekend and you’re going to like learn this whole dance,'” the iCarly alum remembers.

“I’ve never been more scared in my entire life,” Cosgrove says. “I made a huge deal out of it in my head.”

The reality of it, however, was quite different. “It ended up being the thing that kind of bonded everybody,” she says. “I kept telling Sean [Teale] it was like Silver Linings Playbook. I had to meet [the choreographer] every weekend and we worked on our part of the dance and it was so funny.”

Cosgrove then remembered actually filming the scene, which had quite a few limitations. “We only got to do one take of the dance because it was our very last shot of the movie,” she says. “We were working until like 5 am that night and since it was the very last night and the hotel actually had a rule where you’re not really supposed to film that late, we had to do the whole dance in silence so that we didn’t disturb the hotel guests.”

“It was like a perfect way to finish to wrap the movie,” she adds. Talk about facing your fears!

But, in addition to the dancing, it seems Cosgrove had a blast filming the movie in Phuket, Thailand.

“It was awesome getting to work with [Shields], especially since when I first read the script I loved the whole mother-daughter relationship,” Cosgrove says. “And I feel like in some of those scenes with the two of us, they really hit close to home just because I’m so close with my mom in real life.”

“From the moment I met Brooke, she’s the kind of person that just kind of makes you feel like you’ve known her a million years,” she gushes about her onscreen mom. “She’s just so sweet that it makes everybody it made everyone really comfortable. And with her being the star of the movie, I felt like it set up everybody for a lot of success because we were out in Thailand for almost two months.

“We really spent like pretty much every second of the two months we were there together,” she adds.

In the movie, Shields and Bratt play two exes who reunite decades after their breakup when her daughter and his son (Teale) get married.

One thing the movie didn’t address? How Cosgrove’s and Teale’s characters could become stepsiblings if their parents end up having a relationship.

“We just thought it was funny because we hadn’t really thought about it that much and then one day we were just kind of like sitting at the resort talking and we were like, ‘Wait a minute, like does what not mean?’ Um, but yeah, I mean, I guess if that’s the way your parents find true love,” she says.

Find out to see what really happens in Mother of the Bride on Netflix!

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