Chris Pine Reveals He's Taking Ballet Classes: 'I Wish I'd Done It Years Ago'

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The Contractor and Amazon Prime's All The Old Knives — opens up about his dance classes and why he became interested in the first place.

 I just find it so beautiful because you have to be so strong and kind of masculine, so to speak, but also very gentle and feminine with your arms and your hands. 

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"A couple things," he says. "One, it's artistic, but a lot of vanity. I had watched this video of this great Russian dancer dancing to Hozier in this church. 

 I was like, 'Who is this guy?' I was like, 'I want to look like that.' He's a ballet dancer. And I was like, 'I should take ballet.'"

When he's not learning his new skill, he has no problem keeping his hands full with multiple projects.

First, Pine stars in the upcoming action-thriller The Contractor as Special Forces Sergeant James Harper, "who is involuntarily discharged from the Army and cut-off from his pension,

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