Looks like Laura Ramsey (She's the Man) is ready to give the "chick flick" genre a goody shimmy.
According to Variety, Ramsey is set to star in Whatever Lola Wants, where she will play a Brooklyn postal worker, who travels to Cairo, Egypt to be with her Egyptian lover, but after being spurned ends up taking belly dancing lessons from legendary-but-disgraced dancer Ismahan (Lebanon's Carmen Lebbos).
This story caught my eye because over the summer I started taking belly dance classes. I figured, I have these hips for a reason, I might as well learn how to use them.
Best. Decision. EVER!
Anyway, Ramsey spent 5 months learning how to belly dance, saying "the role's biggest challenge is the dancing. You need a couple of months to belly dance in your heart and soul." I hear that.
The globe-hopping production shot its NYC exteriors on location in early October, finishing up its interior NYC shots in Casablanca, Morocco of all places. It will head to Cairo for a final 10 days in mid-December.
