The film looks at the competitive world of stepdancing.
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A Humber graduate is hitting it big with his leading role in How She Move, a step dancing movie to be released in theatres this March.
Dwain Murphy, 21, graduated from the acting program in 2005 and has his first lead role as a step dancer named Bishop. The film was shot in Toronto and Hamilton by director Ian Iqbal Rashid.
Murphy started acting in Grade 11 when he decided to pursue it as a career.
“I kind of said, ‘If this is what I want to do, if this is what makes me happy, then I’m going to have to put 100 per cent in it,’” he said. “That’s what I did, so luckily it worked out for me.”
Murphy has appeared in four movies as well as three TV appearances in Degrassi, G-Spot and The Wait, which he recently finished filming for HBO.
Murphy said his success was really surprising at first. “You don’t really expect to do good right out of the gates. You think it might happen over time, but everything just sort of sky-rocketed right after school.”  
Murphy said entering the acting industry was intimidating at first but said it gets easier with time.
“It was kind of scary and overwhelming. I would be in my dressing room, about to go on set and do lines for a TV show that I used to be watching four months ago.”

“He could put himself in other people’s shoes and see the world from another’s view – and that’s what acting is.” –John Bourgeois, acting program coordinator

Program coordinator John Bourgeois said although success so early in an acting career is unusual, he is not surprised Murphy has done so well for himself.
“Dwain is highly focused, instinctual, has an excellent work ethic and he takes his craft very seriously,” Bourgeois said. “He’s uncommonly mature for his age, very centred and poised for someone so young, which is uncommon to see in a relatively green age.”
Bourgeois said while Murphy was attending Humber he showed his ability to be empathetic. “He could put himself in other people’s shoes and see the world from another’s view – and that’s what acting is.”
Bourgeois said Humber’s focus for the acting program is to teach students to be as versatile as possible for various roles.
Second-year film and television student Danielle Petite said Murphy’s success boosts her confidence in succeeding after Humber.
“It shows how useful the things we’re taught become post-graduation and how talented the Humber faculty are if one of the grads gets a lead role in a movie,” she said.
“Having faculty in the business gives the students an opportunity to learn from someone who has first-hand experience in what the students want to become.”
Murphy said he hopes to someday “be somewhere on the level of the Will Smiths and the Denzel Washingtons of the world, or maybe even surpass them.”