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LeAnn Rimes is opening up about her 2000 classic, Coyote Ugly.

The 38-year-old country star, who was 17 in the movie, opened up to ET about how the film affected her sexuality.

“I was 17. I was…this little sweet innocent girl and then…I walk on set and they hand me these chicken cutlets to put in my bra and they’re like, ‘Push ‘em up’… That was my introduction into sexuality and being sexualized as a woman,” she said.

“It was interesting. It was quite a shock to the system. I was a kid looking at these women going, ‘I’ll just do what she’s doing.’ Nothing was really embodied,” she continued.

“I was trying to be this sexy singer performing on a bar, and that was so opposite of me. I was really acting at the time ’cause I was still figuring all that out about myself. Now it’s a different story. Now, if you put me on a bar, it’s a different story…now with all of my music, there’s so much more of an embodied experience since I’ve lived these songs. I’m 38 now and it comes from a completely different place…I draw from my own life experiences,” she explains.

“They wanted to keep my image so innocent up until that point. I was kinda like, ‘Ta da’ [at] the chains being broken off of a teenage girl. It was appropriate.”

She recently covered a hit by a current teen singer. Listen!

She also just released a 20th anniversary megamix of her Coyote Ugly songs, including “Can’t Fight the Moonlight” Listen now!

Tyra Banks has some exciting news!

The 46-year-old Dancing With the Stars host made an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Wednesday (October 7).

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During the interview, Tyra revealed she’s in talks to reboot Coyote Ugly.

“I literally was supposed to be on a conference call today about bringing Coyote Ugly back,” she dished. She also said she’s planning to talk to Maria Bello, who played Lil, about the details.

“We were supposed to be on a call today, and I’m talking to you and I can’t talk to them. Yes, we are talking about trying to do Coyote Ugly 2 or a series.”

She also talked about her audition for the movie.

“For my audition for Coyote Ugly, they asked me what song I wanted to play. I was like, ‘OK, I’ll take Prince‘s ‘Kiss.” … They push play. I’m in this huge hotel room, all these casting people lined up looking at me. And I’m dancing. I’m head whipping,” she explained.

“The whole song I ended up dancing. Then after I’m out of breath, and then they all just started laughing. They’re like, ‘We are so sorry, but we were enjoying that so much, we kept the music going,’” she said.

Coyote Ugly made $113 million at the box office 20 years ago in 2000.

The movie followed Violet Sanford (Piper Perabo), who moved to New York to pursue singing and started working at the bar, Coyote Ugly, to make money. The real Coyote Ugly Saloon was founded in NYC in 1993 by Liliana “Lil” Lovell.

“I feel like I do have the dance moves, as long as no one choreographs me and tells me exactly how to dance. I’m kind of tempted to ask [Derek Hough] to choreograph like 16 counts for me to see if I can do it,” Tyra said of whether she still had the moves.

If you haven’t seen it, watch Tyra‘s grand debut on DWTS here…

Coyote Ugly is celebrating its 15th anniversary and the cast and crew are opening up about the cult favorite film to mark the occasion.

Director David McNally has revealed that Piper Perabo wasn’t the original actress in mind for the lead role of Violet. The casting team actually was seeking out several pop stars for the part!

Jessica Simpson was a “contender” and Jewel was also seen for the role.

“We did our due diligence and saw everybody,” David told THR. “Toward the end of the process, Piper walked in… She was actually from New Jersey and seemed to get it.” When “everyone loved” Piper‘s screen test, “that was the end of that.”

It was also revealed in the THR piece that LeAnn Rimes, whose voice replaced Piper‘s singing voice, was a last-minute addition to the team and the actress originally had recorded all of her own vocals.

“[McNally] said, ‘We’re going to dub the songs,’ and I was like, ‘Uh, OK.’ What can I say? I’m like 21. What am I going to say, no?” Piper said, adding that the decision was “disappointing.”