Sure of the meaning, but may be better words

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Mira esta entrevista suya que encontré en donde menciona que para esta película tuvo que cantar, bailar y hacer otras cosas que hacía muchos años que no hacía. Es una actriz principalmente, lo que tuvo que ensayar mucho fue el canto y baile.


On Singing, Dancing and Twirling a Baton: It may look like a lot of fun but getting the moves and songs down wasn’t exactly a breeze. “Well, (laughing) it actually was a lot of hard work. I had to adapt to a new way of singing and the kind of discipline about that that I didn’t have,” admitted Pfeiffer. “And train my voice because my voice had just gone to seed. Then I had to lip-sync and learn the dance in those shoes that were killing my feet. And then we go into the thing and now I have to do the baton, so it was a lot to be thinking about on one day.”

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ya que el tiempo apremiaba, los plazos se acababan.

cramm aprender a la carrera.
Cram implica acciones apuradas, de último minuto.