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Meet the stunning Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, who train all year round and star in behind-the-scene Netflix show
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DALLAS Cowboys cheerleaders are preparing to take the world by storm.
The NFL's most iconic dance team high-kicks their way onto your TV screen in new Netflix documentary America’s Sweethearts.
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Netflix cameras were given exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the troop during the 2023 season.
It proved to be a rollercoaster campaign on the field for the Cowboys, who saw their Super Bowl drought extended to 29 years.
America’s Sweethearts chronicles the lives of cheerleaders past and present on the squad, including rookies, veterans, and retired dancers.
"There are certain people that you feel compelled to focus on," director Greg Whiteley explained, via Netflix.
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"You have to trust that instinct and be open to wherever their story is going to go.
"We were fully prepared to just keep filming with somebody that didn't make the team."
Hundreds of dancers apply for a role in the squad each year, with the show following several rookies on their cheerleading journey.
One is Charly Barby, a trained ballet dancer who graduated from Arizona State shortly before filming began.
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While Bollywood dancer Anisha Kay - an orthodontist in the real world - turned heads with a stunning audition tape.
"If I know I have five minutes between patients, I try to run one or two full routines. It’s tough, but worth it," Anisha said.
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Rookie Kelly Villares is another rookie hopeful and claims she has dreamed of becoming a Dallas cheerleader her "whole life."
"I just didn’t think it was in the cards for me, considering I live in New Jersey," Kelly revealed.
"I want to make my parents proud, because they know how bad I want it, and they’ve sacrificed so much.
"I just want to show them what I did, [and say] you didn’t sacrifice all this for nothing."
The show also follows a number of DCC veterans, looking into what it means to become a cheerleader in the modern-day NFL.
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Fifth-year dancer Kelcey Wetterberg balances the role with her high-pressure full-time job as a pediatric nurse.
"You learn to expedite your meals when you’re busy like me 18 hours a day. DCC is more of a part-time job," she told Netflix.
"A lot of us work full-time jobs and come to DCC at night, so it can be really exhausting.
"But there are moments here that are so special, I’ll cherish them for the rest of my life."
Fourth-year dancer Victoria Kalina has family ties with the organization, with her mom Tina a Dallas cheerleader during the 1980s.
"I get some comments saying y’all are too close, that’s unhealthy," Victoria says of her relationship with her mom.
"But I wouldn’t have it any other way. She’s my rock, my person, my biggest supporter ever."
Elsewhere on the team, there is another family connection, with rookie Anna Kate Sundvold replacing her sister Caroline after she retired due to injury.
"We’ve had a few arguments, but for the most part it was a blessing for me that as I was leaving DCC she was coming in," Caroline explained.
"It sort of lightened the blow a bit, so I didn’t feel so isolated from everything I’d been around for the last five years."
"The kind of access and creative freedom we need to make the kind of work we want to make is not easy to come by - especially when dealing with a brand as large as the Dallas Cowboys," Whiteley continued ahead of the show's premiere on June 20.
"To their infinite credit, the Cowboys offered unfettered access for the year we filmed the DCC and left us alone.
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"The result is an authentic portrait of one of the most storied and beloved institutions we have in American pop culture."
You can stream America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on Netflix from June 20.
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