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*NSYNC's Fatone Gets Greek Lessons While Filming 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'
04/10/2002 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Jerry Armor
(4/10/02, 1 p.m. ET) -- *NSYNC singer Joey Fatone has a small role in the upcoming Joel Zwick-directed romantic comedy, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, due in theaters April 19. The movie is about a young Greek girl named Toula (Nia Vardalos) who defies family tradition by falling for a non-Greek high school teacher named Ian (John Corbett), while at the same time trying to come to grips with her heritage and her own cultural identity. Fatone portrays Toula's handsome cousin in the film.
Fatone, who is in fact of Italian heritage, told LAUNCH that his fellow castmembers gave him a few Greek lessons while shooting the movie. "They were actually teaching me all dirty words, believe it or not--some that I probably will not be able to say right now. It was interesting, though, to be able to pick that up," he said. "It's a tough language, though. I mean, the line that I say in the movie is pretty easy, but there was some stuff that they were trying to teach me. . .even some normal stuff that was. . .It was weird. It was hard--very tough."
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