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      “I didn’t know Latifah has the sense of humor that she has,” said LL during interviews for the movie this past weekend in Los Angeles.  “I knew she was a nice person, because I’ve seen her around many times for years, but I didn’t know she had that type of a sense of humor. I didn’t know she was so laid back and relaxed.”

      At nights during the shoot, LL said his crew spent time with Latifah’s posse tearing up the local bowling alley, “going crazy and sliding down the lane,” laughs the rapper. “Sliding into home base to get strikes.”

      Hopefully, audiences will laugh as much in the theater as the actors did during their free time.  The film is an update of the 1950 film starring Alec Guiness in the title role of  George Bird, an agricultural machinery salesman who find out he hasn’t long to live and embarks on a last holiday. Latifah, as Georgia Bird, is a cookware salesperson for a New Orleans retail outlet who takes a dream vacation to Europe upon finding out that her days are numbered. LL plays Sean Matthews, a shy, soft-spoken man who carries a secret torch for the lady.

     “That’s the thing that made [the role] attractive,” said LL, who turns 38 on Saturday. That was the fun part of the role, the fact that it was an opportunity to play against type, against what people expected me to do. Most of the time, especially in film, people are gonna assume, ‘Oh, it’s a rapper, it’s hip hop.’ So this was an opportunity to do something different.”

      Despite the role being a departure for the New York native, LL says he shares one trait with his character. (Find out what is HERE).

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