ON LOCATION: Jenna Dewan’s ‘Virgin’ Films at the University of Michigan

On a biting cold Tuesday morning, around the fountain on the Ingalls Mall on the University of Michigan’s Central Campus, a 20-person crew for the new Rob Schneider film “The Virgin on Bourbon Street” faced a somewhat unexpected task.

In addition to setting up cameras and hooking up other equipment, the bundled-up crew found themselves using brooms to clear snow from the bushes that flank an entrance to the Michigan League.

“It’s supposed to be fall, not winter,” explained producer Jason Price.

Won’t the actors’ breath be visible?

A University of Michigan sign is temporarily covered up with a Pennington College sign for the movie filming.”That’s OK,” said Price. “It’s an early, cold fall. We just don’t want the snow yet.”
Though the crew has filmed in different Detroit locations over the last few weeks, Tuesday was their first shooting day in Ann Arbor, and they’ll likely shoot locally for one or two more days.

The scene shot on the mall involves actress Jenna Dewan (”Step Up”), who’s arriving at college.

“She’s kind of a fish out of water,” said Price. “She’s from a small town in the middle of nowhere, and she arrives, and she sees the beautiful architecture of this college, the buildings - it’s a really nice campus.”

Dewan plays a good-girl student, Priscilla, who’s earned a college scholarship from an abstinence group called “Can’t Hurry Love.” When her wild-girl roommate Naz (Brianne Davis of “Prom Night”) leads her into a night of debauchery, which includes an appearance in a “Girls Gone Wild”-like video, Priscilla must track down the man behind the tawdry series (played by Schneider).