The following contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy Season 3, now streaming on Netflix

Music has been at the core of The Umbrella Academy since the show first premiered on Netflix, with plenty of iconic moments coming from the contrast between the music and the absurdist superhero show's wild plotlines. The show's newest season (now streaming on Netflix) opens with a new contender for the show's best musical moment, forcing the team into a very choreographed throwdown for the ages.

The Umbrella Academy's third season premiere features one of the show's best-ever needle-drops -- with a tense confrontation between the titular adopted family coming up against the Sparrow Academy turning into a spirited recreation of "Footloose." Even after two ridiculous seasons, the cast was still open about how much of a challenge the entire process really was -- revealing to members of the press (including CBR) what it was like to dive into the sequence.

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The scene kicks off when Jayme, aka Number 6 of the Sparrow Academy, uses her hallucinogenic venom to cause Diego to imagine the confrontation turning into a dance-off set to "Footloose." "There was a lot of thought as to like, why is Diego having this specific dream," Diego's actor David Castañeda explained. "You know, what obsession does he have for Kevin Bacon? Or this, you know, his fantasy? Is this a dream of him maybe wanting [to be a] Broadway star... When they sent us the videos of what steps we had to learn, I didn't open them. I'd never learned these models. It wasn't until we actually met John through the zoom that he kind of, you know, walked us through it. But it was exhilarating. You know, it's exciting to come back after almost a year of not shooting and see your family again and get to play with them [like this]."

The scene is a ridiculous shift in tone and perfectly in tune with the kaleidoscope nature of the show -- something Aidan Gallagher, who plays the sardonic Five, admitted he "Didn't quite know exactly what I was getting into. Once that they sent us a mock-up version of the dance sequence that the dance instructor had done. By that point, it was a bit daunting, but we ran it through like Zoom calls and then in a dance studio until we were all comfortable with it. And we then we just had to do it in the academy."

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Tom Hooper, who plays Luther, felt that the song choice makes perfect sense given the show that's preceded it. "Why would we be surprised? And then that quickly went to fear, when we knew what the dance was going to be... It was a tricky thing because we had a situation in Ontario at the time when there was a rule due to COVID, we weren't allowed to have many actors on set. I think we were limited to six at one point, and then they lifted it. So we were able to do the entire scene with everyone. But at one point, it looked like we'd have to do six or seven at a time and then the other seven. But fortunately, we got around that we got to dance all at the same time."

Due to the nature of the shut-down, the cast and crew had to scramble to work around the limitations -- especially during the periods early in the production stage when pandemic protocols were being taken more seriously. For the dance sequence, Hooper related that "There were weeks of rehearsal beforehand, including Zoom rehearsals when we were in quarantine in Toronto. Then we got into the room with each other and actually got to see what we all look like. That was actually the hardest bit."

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Even for a Broadway veteran like Emmy Raver-Lampman, who plays Allison, the process was a rewarding challenge. "It was pretty intense. You know, we started conversations about the dance in December 2020. And we didn't start filming until mid-February 2021. It was about two and a half months of conversations with [John Heginbotham] the choreographer, just to get everybody comfortable. Once we all traveled to Toronto and were in quarantine, we were doing several rehearsals a week via Zoom. The Dance Company had incredible dancers make a video for all of us to study in our own time. A lot of the Sparrows were working with our stunt and fight coordinating team to work on the fight aspect of it. It was really intense."

Raver Lampman continued, "Once we were all out of quarantine, it was about three weeks of in-person rehearsals, completely masked, [in] two dance studios across the hall from each other. So one was for stunts and fight training. And then the other one was for dancing. We would just go back and forth across the hall all day long, learning and practicing and rehearsing and over and over and over again... I'm so proud of everybody especially, you know, this new cast of Sparrows, they really got thrown into the fire.It took about six days of filming to get because, you know, once we have the fights and the dances, then we also had like camera choreography and how we were going to shoot the whole sequence. And it just was madness. So it took hundreds of people to make that happen. But I think the end result is kind of epic."

The Umbrella Academy Season 3 is currently streaming on Netflix.