Jill Hammond was a sophomore at Payson High School in Payson, Utah, in the spring of 1983 when she learned that juniors and seniors would have the opportunity to be selected as extras for a movie that would be shot at the school. As a cheerleader, Hammond was automatically picked for a choreographed dance number, which took a little more than two weeks to shoot.
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