Naturally! Rumer Willis told Us Weekly and other reporters at week six of Dancing With the Stars on Monday, April 20, that her famous family has become a total “dance family.”
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore‘s eldest daughter, 26, was asked how invested her superstar parents were in the competitive dance reality show. “I mean, I feel like if I was 6 years old, I would be on Dance Moms,” Rumer joked. “It’s awesome. My sisters were texting me the other day and they were like, ‘We have totally become a dance family.’ Every conversation somehow ends up with us talking about either dance clothes or what song I’m dancing to. They are very supportive. It’s awesome!”
Indeed, both Willis and Moore have made their way out to the ballroom to support their daughter. On April 7, Moore (joined randomly by actress Glenn Close) was seen getting emotional during her daughter’s portion of the program.
Moore isn’t your typical stage mother, though. According to Rumer, her famous mom is far from the oftentimes abrasive and pushy “Dance Moms” featured on the Lifetime series. “I have actually never seen the show Dance Moms, but she’s really not like that,” Rumer said of the Striptease actress, 52. “It’s nice to have a family that is so supportive and is so into it and loves coming here.”
In fact, Moore was seen getting mildly annoyed with the judges and their reaction to Rumer’s “raunchy” dance with Val Chmerkovskiy.
“I get it,” Rumer told Us backstage of her mother’s reaction to Len Goodman‘s commentary. (“No, I don’t like all that raunchy stuff!” Goodman told Willis and her partner following their dance on April 20.) “Len is a very traditional guy,” she continued Monday night. “That was racy for me. I was struggling this week to fully get all of that too, so I get it. I like the ballroom dance. I like the lines. I like the foxtrot and the waltz, even though it’s hard, I love that.”
She added that she wished the judges had elaborated on what they wanted from this season’s front-running pair. “My only desire is that I could have had a longer conversation to know exactly what they would have wanted to see, you know?” Rumer explained. “I feel like because we have such a short amount of time to talk to them, I wish I could get more specifics from them because they said they expect a lot of me and I wish I knew exactly what I could improve to have made that dance better.”
While Moore made it out to CBS Studios on Monday night, her ex-husband Willis was there in spirit. His daughter made sure to give a shout-out to her father, too, after a reporter asked Rumer whether she had a celebrity look-alike.
“My dad used to say I looked like Natalie Portman when I was a kid,” she said Monday.
