Yara Shahidi To Star In & Produce New Movie 'Sitting In Bars With Cake'

Yara Shahidi has found her next movie role!

The 22-year-old actress is set to star in and executive produce the film Sitting In Bars With Cake, according to THR.

The upcoming feature will be for Amazon Studios, and it’s based on a true story.

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Sitting In Bars With Cake “centers on a quiet young woman unlucky in love who discovers an unlikely guy magnet when she bakes a cake for her best friend’s birthday and brings it to a bar, only to be swarmed by men. She believes it’s a fluke, but her friend convinces her to commit to a year of baking cakes and bringing them to bars, with the goal of finding true love. The young woman’s life proceeds to open up in ways she couldn’t have imagined. The project hopes to balance laughs, heart and bittersweetness in a story of love and friendship.”

The movie is based off of a blog and subsequent book by Audrey Shulman, who also wrote the screenplay.

Also on Yara‘s upcoming slate is the movie Players for Netflix, as well as the upcoming Disney film Peter Pan & Wendy, where she will portray Tinker Bell!