‘Carrie,’ ‘Scarface’ Director Made Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing in the Dark’ Music Video

One of the biggest directors in crime and drama pulled double duty on a music video.

The year 1983 was busy for director Brian De Palma. Following the success of Carrie and Scarface, he spent much of the first half of the year directing Body Double.

The raunchy thriller, starring Craig Wasson and Melanie Griffith, was filmed through mid-April in Los Angeles. It was almost given an X rating before De Palma edited it down to R standards.

Just weeks later, de Palma headed to Saint Paul, Minn. to work on a very different project. A Bruce Springsteen fan himself, he took the opportunity to get a break from his work and give music videos a shot.

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De Palma filmed with The Boss at the Saint Paul Civic Center on June 28 and 29, 1984. While the first night consisted of content purely for the video, the second night was the kick-off to the “Born in the U.S.A.” Tour.

Along with the E Street Band, he performed the song twice during the show in order to get all the footage necessary. Infamously, Springsteen pulled Courteney Cox out of the audience. Unbeknownst to the singer, the Scream star was an actress who had been brought in from New York. She even filmed scenes prior with a group of other actresses, with one considered premise following the group of friends from their time getting ready to enjoying themselves at the show.

“I walked into this big casting room, and all these dancers were there,” she recalled during a 2017 interview on The Off Camera Show with Sam Jones. “And I was like, ‘I don’t think I’m in the right place because I can barely touch my toes.’ ”

“Someone said, ‘Okay, so Bruce is going to pick one of you out of the audience,’ and I was like, no. I did not want to be the one to go. I don’t want to dance for 30,000 people! It was a full concert and we did the song twice, back to back.”

De Palma finished the video, which would debut a few weeks later, then headed back to editing Body Double. The film was polarizing at the time of its release, and he spoke with PEOPLE about the divisive reaction to the film.

“I subscribe to the Aristotelian theory. I believe that movies purge you of these emotions,” he shared, later adding, “We live in a society of free access, free will. We can certainly guide our children about the things we don’t want them to see.”

In both projects, De Palma met his goal, noting, “I’m interested in shaking up the audience’s sense of reality, jolting it out of conventional ways of perceiving things. That’s what excites me.”