Christina Aguilera didn’t want to leave movie set

The 29-year-old singer made her acting debut in the upcoming movie about a small-town girl who moves to Los Angeles in an attempt to become a star and ends up working at a bar called The Burlesque Lounge.

Christina plays lead character Ali Rose in the movie, which also stars music and film icon Cher and Kristen Bell. The star says she forged a fantastic friendship with her co-stars, and they’d all hang out together after shooting was complete.

"There were many times where we were sitting on a couch on the side of the room where they'd be like, 'Okay, enough talking already, we have to get the shot. It's one o'clock in the morning!'" she laughed in an interview with ET.

The action-packed movie features some risqué dance routines, which gave Christina a real work-out every day. The blonde beauty attributes her toned physique in the film to all the calories she shed throwing shapes, although she did try to go to the gym a bit more to prepare too.

"Before starting all the dance rehearsals I tried to hit the gym a little bit extra hard, but it was really the dancing itself that really shed the pounds for me," she added.