Ryan Guzman is an actor who dances, not a dancer who acts. And so the toughest part of making his second Step Up movie was getting you to believe he has been dancing since he took his first steps. ... “Acting like I can dance is one thing, but making it believable to the audience is another.

Do the people in Step Up actually dance?

"But I think, if anything, if I had to pick a special thing, one, we do all of our own dancing," Tatum boasts. ... Like Tyler, Tatum knew how he danced when he was out with friends, but it was a very different thing to first meet with Step Up director Anne Fletcher, one of the medium's most successful choreographers.

Did Ryan Guzman know how do you dance before Step Up?

You'd never guess, but prior to filming Guzman had no professional dance training; in fact, he didn't even know how to dance. The 24-year-old actor landed the lead role thanks to his Mixed Martial Arts skills and charisma and he candidly admits the audition process was terrifying.