Witney Carson

I have something to prove and I want to win.

And you're very much competitive in that way.

So so he was really good to kind of like balance out the mental part of everything and the emotional part of everything.

So that part would be hard because, you know, the celebrities on the show are not usually trying to leave there with a new career as a professional dancer.

Like that's, you know, we go into it for different, everyone comes into it for different reasons, but like-

Best case scenario, you're getting somebody there who just wants to learn and wants to improve week after week and wants to have fun doing it and wants to be out of their comfort zone and wants to, you know, see how far they can take this and is competing with themselves week after week.

But for you guys, especially when this is what you've trained for your whole lives, like this is your career, this is your reputation, this is... So it's hard to separate between...

me, Whitney Carson, wanting to put on my best performance and show people what I'm capable of, but also, oh yeah, this it's called dancing with the stars and I need to make my star look good.

And so, yeah, that would be real.

Like that's a, that's a, that's a learning curve that you have to go through between finding the balance of showcasing what you're capable of and making your star shine.

Yeah, and I think that it takes, honestly, years to do that.

I mean, like I said, I didn't really quite figure that out fully until the last maybe five years.

And with some celebrities, it's just so different.

Like I know for me, some celebrities, I don't dance like my full ability.

Like I'm able to – I almost dance like a notch down just in case –

Something happens and they fall off timing.

And so if they're off timing, I watch them and I go off timing.

So it looks like they're on timing.

We find little tricks that kind of allow them to shine, which in which in turn, honestly, makes makes you beautiful.

like look better as well because you know it's a win-win when you when you do it that way and you really think about their journey and their and what makes them shine and finding those moments to really make them stand out yeah what do you think made him such a perfect contestant for the show