Brooks Nader and Gleb Savchenko chat with THR on the ballroom floor of 'Dancing With the Stars' and dish on having their first "fight" as a dance couple and how that made them better.
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00:00How would you compare this week's performance from last week?
00:04Well, I'm much more pleased with our scores this week.
00:08I think we worked really hard in practice and hopefully that showed on the dance floor.
00:13So I'm really happy with tonight's performance.
00:15Yeah, totally. I think Brooke did very well.
00:19Quick step is not an easy dance. We got a better score.
00:22And as a teacher, I'm so proud of her.
00:24I think she nailed every single step and those steps that we really worked hard on.
00:28She did not miss a one little bit.
00:31I was like, wow. She killed it. So good.
00:35And you said it was really easy with your chemistry on stage.
00:39It's really easy to show that to the audience.
00:41What about this partnership makes it so easy to connect like that?
00:45I don't think you can plan for something like that.
00:48It's just either there or not, you know what I mean?
00:50Connecting with people and friends and colleagues, coworkers, whatever.
00:54And we happened to have that, which is such a bonus
00:57because we don't have to fake anything.
00:59Oscars night, we didn't have to act.
01:01How amazing is that?
01:04And I'm wondering, I mean, it seems like it's been so fun between you two.
01:07I'm wondering, have you guys ever had a spat between each other with like rehearsing?
01:14A what?
01:15A fight.
01:16A fight?
01:17We have actually had a fight.
01:18We did, yeah.
01:19At the very beginning, we had an actual real fight between one another.
01:22And then, you know what? I will say this.
01:24We had a fight, and I was really annoyed, and he was annoyed, and blah, blah, blah.
01:28And then we made up, and it was even better.
01:30The dancing was better.
01:31The partnership was better.
01:33And it was like, it was amazing that we had a fight, actually.
01:36It helped.
01:37It really did, weirdly.
01:38And it was a real fight.
01:39She's such a hot girl.
01:40You heard it in your first Hollywood Reporter.
01:43No, and then we did have a double elimination this week.
01:46I want to know, what was going through both of your minds, I mean,
01:49while you were waiting for your name to be called?
01:53Damn.
01:54It was like, I hate those moments, because you just stand there,
01:57and you never know who's going to go home,
01:59and when they don't call your name, and you're still there on the floor.
02:02Yeah, it's scary, actually.
02:03You're like, okay.
02:04You're looking back and thinking, like, oh, there are only three couples left.
02:07You know, so.
02:08Yeah, I was petrified.
02:10I mean, no one's safe.
02:12Just got to keep working hard.