Jenna Dewan has said that being one of pop icon Janet Jackson's backup dancers did not come with the "hierarchy" often apparent with touring musicians.
The 45-year-old actor recounted the experience on an episode of the podcast Dinner's on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson, reports people.com.
"Janet taught me a lot of things about just life, but also being in this business, she remembers everyone's name that she's worked with," Dewan, who began touring with Jackson at age 18, recalled.
Dewan added, "She remembers every dancer - where we're from. She knows our life. I mean, she brings us into her life and not many artists are like that with dancers, you know, there is a real sometimes feeling of: you're the dancer."
She continued: "You're at a different hotel than we are at, or you're not as good as the singers or the backup singers... there was like a hierarchy, but she did not have that." Dewan said that Jackson treated her dancers like "family," adding: "If you are on her team, you were on the tour, you were part of her family. We had spa nights. We were always at the same hotel as her. I mean, it was just like really little things that, as you get older in this business, you start seeing, well, not everyone's that graceful."