HI-
Mayte said she was in this new movie "Charlie Wilson's War" and in the trailer there is a shot of a belly dancer, but it is sooo quick it is hard to c who it is...that would be so cool to see her belly dance on the big screen...if they didn't cast her for that role and she is in the moviee...i think that's lame..

i remembered that she was supposed to be the belly dancer but on the trailer, it surely doesn't look like her at all...May-be it's another dancer but she's still in there as another dancer. We'll see

I have to wait to hate on the bellydancer that was suppose to replace Mayte?

Thanks! I guess we will c...I think she is such an amazing dancer, what a treat that would be..cheers!

Mayte said on her fan forum on myspace that she has been cut from the movie "charlie wilsons war"

No it isn't her. Did anyone ever get info on why they decided not to use Mayte?

alwayslate said:

umm .... cuz she SUCKS!!!

p4life said:

Mani, is that you?



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hmm. It still lists that movie as one of her credits on her website.

I wondered why she was replaced as well.

I remember reading some press release that the producer decided that Mayte just wasn't right for the part... and he was looking for a replacement but couldn't find one. Then supposedly there was a plan for reshoots etc with Mayte to see if something could be worked out.
That was 6 months ago and I remembered her saying on her myspace forum that it was a wait and see situation.

I was hoping that she would get the part... but I don't think so. The website still lists her, but the trailer that was available online just before Thanksgiving did not list her in the credits.

Wasn't she cut from another movie this year???
I can't recall the name.. but I thought she was suppose
to be in it.. and they said she was "wrong" for that part too.
Stupid people.. she is a really sweet gal and pretty too.
Probably just as good as an actress as some of these
air heads you see on the big screen.
I've always liked Mayte.. always will...

I asked Mayte on Myspace about being cut and she said that they chose to go with a "white" girl instead of her.

RaspberryWoman said:

hmmm...

RaspberryWoman said:

I don't know what's sadder, Mayte being replaced, or her sounding so bitter about it.

Don't seem that the movie did that well anyway. Especially with that type of high profile casting. I think it did get one nomination, for what I haven't a clue.

Sometimes, it's who you know....link has her photo.

http://www.venturacountys...ns-war-to/

Dancer helps to link 'Charlie Wilson's War' to Texas roots
Cowboys coach's daughter picked for key film role
By Maria Recio, McClatchy Newspapers
Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Photo courtesy of Tracy Phillips / Fort Worth Star-Telegram Tracy Phillips, who plays the belly dancer in the film, is the daughter of Dallas Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips and granddaughter of legendary football coach O.A. "Bum" Phillips.

Oscar-winning director Mike Nichols was looking for just the right dancer this spring for "Charlie Wilson's War," a movie about a former Texas congressman, when he got a tape of a striking brunette with electric-blue eyes.

He decided that she was perfect to play Carol Shannon, the Fort Worth belly dancer who enthralled Wilson and accompanied him on his exploits around the world. It was an inspired bit of casting with a Texas twist: Tracy Phillips, who plays the belly dancer, is the daughter of Dallas Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips and granddaughter of legendary football coach O.A. "Bum" Phillips.

"Mike Nichols liked the tape and that was it," the Los Angeles-based Tracy Phillips said.

It may be a breakout role for the actress, dancer and choreographer, whose family is from Texas but who grew up all over the country as a "coach's kid." Her daring dance balancing a sword and virtual seduction of the Egyptian defense minister is a central scene in the film, which depicts Wilson's clandestine support of the anti-Soviet rebels in Afghanistan in the 1980s. The movie, which stars Oscar winners Tom Hanks as Wilson, Julia Roberts as Houston socialite Joanne Herring and Philip Seymour Hoffman as a rogue CIA agent, has been nominated for four Golden Globe awards and is already generating Oscar buzz.

Tracy Phillips did not know Wilson's story when she was tapped for the belly dancer's role but immediately went out and bought the 2003 book, "Charlie Wilson's War," by the late CBS "60 Minutes" producer George Crile.

"It seems like fiction," Phillips said. "It's amazing that it's a true story."

Wilson, a colorful Democratic congressman who served from 1973 to 1997, took up the cause of the Afghan mujahedeen in the early 1980s after he read of their fierce struggle against the invading Soviet army. Wilson used his position as a member of the House Appropriations Committee to funnel money to the fighters and joined forces with CIA agent Gust Avrakotos and Herring to secretly buy the mujahedeen weapons.

And always, with Wilson, there were women. The divorced Wilson took Shannon, his own belly dancer, to Egypt, Israel and Pakistan. Around the same time he was also engaged to Herring.

"We were in love with the war," Herring said. "I mean by that, with winning the war."

"We were in love with getting rid of the Russians," she said. "We found we were a good team working together. It was a lovely time of my life."

Shannon, whose dancing sealed an arms deal for Wilson, had not seen her former flame in years. She saw him (and his new wife) in May in Los Angeles, when both were on the set to watch Phillips in the belly-dancing scene.

Phillips was excited to meet Shannon, whom she described as "just a spitfire."

"I wanted to do right by her," she said of the belly-dance scene. "It definitely takes a little more liberties than traditional belly dance. I think it works."

This bellydancer claims she was replaced at the real charlie wilson's request! - according to the casting agent who was looking for the replacement.

http://tribes.tribe.net/s...7d5ce72064

A while back a casting agent here on tribe was looking for a bellydancer to replace Mayte Garcia in the movie, "Charlie Wilson's War" (a Tom Hanks & Julia Roberts movie, soon to open). It created quite a stir, and Mayte (Prince's former wife) was indeed replaced at the real-life Charlie Wilson's behest. (He felt the real-life bellydancer was just "so good," and "spectacular." The two were also a couple for awhile). Well, I just saw the trailer to the movie and the clips shown of the dancer (an unknown actress / dancer to me) depict her performing risque movements -- laying on the floor on her side and parting her legs, leaning backward over a table as she slides up to & seductively reaches around a man.... I guess I shouldn't be surprised since it's Hollywood -- they're going to sell sex. I don't even see the real-life dancer's name (Carol Shannon) listed as one the characters any longer (it used to be listed but now it's been changed to just 'dancer' -- I assume to reduce the character's importance). It's just disappointing to see bellydancers depicted as sluts once again. I'm hoping the movie does a little more justice than the trailer, but I'm definitely not hanging veil on that one:
imdb.com/title/tt04720...lay-E35211-314

morningsong said:

Hoffman, Best Supporting Actor.

i just saw the movie and in the context of the story the "white girl" works better, in that its implied that the girl is a trailer-trash-type stripper girl who isn't doing "real belly-dancing". if it had been a proper dancer like mayte they would have lost some of the humor ....


if that matters.