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Amanda Schull isn’t tap dancing around what “Center Stage” fans need to know.
The 2000 American teen drama quickly became a cult classic, with a sequel released in 2008.
Now, 16 years later, Schull is getting candid on if fans can expect “Center Stage” to turn into a trilogy.
“There is a world,” the “One Tree Hill” alum exclusively teased to The Post at the Alzheimer’s Association’s Dance Party to End ALZ on Sunday. “There is a world, yes.”
“Center Stage” follows a group of young ballet dancers as they enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York and deal with the ups and downs of life, dance and relationships.
The movie also starred Ethan Stiefel, Zoe Saldana, Sascha Radetsky and Susan May Pratt. Schull, who played Jody Sawyer, had two on-screen love interests in the film: Stiefel, who played the cocky bad boy ballet dancer Cooper Nielsen, and Sascha Radetsky, who was a sweet, kind ballet student named Charlie Sims.
Schull paid homage to “Center Stage” in a touching Instagram post in September.
“25 years ago I was in the right place at the right time. I was in my favorite city, San Francisco, I was about to become an apprentice with one of the world’s best ballet companies, @sfballet, and I was given the opportunity to audition for and then portray the role of #jodysawyer in the movie #Centerstage,” she reflected at the time.
“Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that this movie would have the impact that it has. It shaped the course of my life. And I learned this past weekend that it has moved more people than I realized. Almost 25 years to the exact last day of filming Center Stage I had the absolute honor to attend @sfdancefilmfest screening of the film at the Herbst theater in San Francisco co-presented by my former company, @sfballet.”
Schull added that everyone who attended the event “was there to celebrate not just the movie, but also dance and the power of art.”
The Hallmark star concluded, “We make art hoping that someone somewhere will see it and feel a stir within themselves that validates the countless hours of anguish in our pursuit. But to still feel the ripples of that affirmation 25 years later is astounding. I will carry the flutters you all gave me on the stage of the Herbst theater in my pocket for the rest of my life.”
Schull was also part of another fan favorite: The law drama “Suits” that ran from 2011 to 2019.
The nine season series hit Netflix and has gotten a new life on the streaming platform. So much so, that a spinoff is in the works.
“Suits” also starred Patrick J. Adams, Gabriel Macht, Sarah Rafferty, Rick Hoffman, Gina Torres and Meghan Markle. The Duchess of Sussex appeared on the USA Network show for seven seasons but left ahead of her 2018 nuptials to Prince Harry.
Schull, for her part, played recurring character Katrina Bennett for six seasons before becoming a series regular for the eighth and ninth seasons.
“It came out of nowhere,” Schull said of the show’s Netflix resurgence. “And it came in this weird vacuum where we were striking at the time so we didn’t really get together to discuss it because that was against what the union rules were of the strike.”
“I was hearing about it but we didn’t actually celebrate it until recently at the Austin Television Festival,” she explained. “And it was just a beautiful opportunity with fans with my ‘Suits’ family and ‘Suits LA’ is going to be coming out soon too, so that’s exciting.”
These days, Schull has her hands full with her Hallmark series “Family Practice Mysteries” alongside Brendan Penny.
“We shot in a real, live operating morgue,” Schull revealed. “Like cremations were happening while we were there. This sounds terribly morbid but they were beautiful people and they were very respectful of everyone, of all the souls that had come through and we got to hear a lot of stories of what they do and that’s part of what my character understand, so that was really interesting research that I never sought out myself.”