SUBMITTED BY Timbo

February 25, 2004 — You'd think a precondition for appearing in a dance movie would be the ability to dance. (How quaint -- Ed.) Not for "Dirty Dancing 2".

Not too long ago Garai's dancing experience was limited to a stint in kiddie ballet. "I was a flower pot when I was, like, 5," says Garai, 21, a Hollywood newcomer best known for arty films, such as I Capture the Castle, made in her native Britain.

Once upon a time, if her co-star wanted to dance, "I had to be drunk, and I had to really like a woman that was over there," on the other side of the club, says Luna, 24, who seduced audiences as one half of the peripatetic duo in the 2001 film Y Tu Mama Tambiin, shot in his native Mexico.

"The only reason to dance was to get close to someone you couldn't approach with words," he says.

So the pair went to the equivalent of boot camp -- 6 1/2 hours a day, every day, for eight weeks -- to get to the point where they'd make a believable Katey Miller and Javier Suarez.

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