You'd think after Trippin', Cameron Diaz would be a world citizen, but she still had to get used to driving on the other side of the road in England. In her new film, The Holiday, Diaz plays Amanda, an American who switches homes with a Brit to get away from her failed relationship.
Interview: Cameron Diaz Talks The Holiday
"The great thing about that was the streets were shut down, blocked off," she said. "Nobody could get on the street that didn’t know I was behind the wheel of the car. Everybody could look over their shoulder and make sure that nothing was happening. But, it’s crazy. Driving on the wrong side of the road, on the wrong side of the car both things. She’s like, ‘I can do this, I can do this.’ Like really I can do it, I can do it. I can barely walk properly in England. It’s crazy because you step off the curb and it says look right. Every time it says to look right, but you always only see that when you look left first."
Her English adventure finds Amanda relating more to animals and children. A scene where she makes faces at a dog taught Diaz the finicky nature of professional animal actors.
"The dog was hilarious. The dog was really old and he was over it. He’s like I’ve been doing this way too long to even be about to make you guys happy. Nancy played the dog a lot. She was off screen, Nancy was barking. It was fun."
The Holiday
The Holiday
The Holiday
Two little girls gave the Hollywood veteran a nice reality check. "They were so sweet. It was a lot of fun. What was so great about them was that they had never done it before. It was really great to watch them grow as actors. It sounds funny, but really they learned so much and we watched them from the first day they were on the set to the last day. It was amazing how what they picked up on, their understanding from the first day to the last day was of what they were doing because they had no idea. They were like, 'We’re making a movie with Cameron Diaz and Jude Law.' They didn’t have any idea of what their responsibilities, what it meant to be doing that. It was a real learning process for them and it was really fun to sort of be there and help guide them through it and give them as much as you can to learn about it. They were so sweet and did such a great job."
Ultimately, the film's parallel stories of romantic discovery are not limited to American and British experiences. Diaz hopes everyone can get something out of The Holiday. "I think that was another thing that I loved about it so much was that it’s highly relatable to everyone. I mean I can relate to Iris (Kate Winslet) and I can relate to Amanda. I think that we’ve all been through these relationships before. That’s life. It’s the journey of love. This lifetime is to try to figure out how to make love work and nurture relationships. There’s definitely something that I think everybody can see a bit themselves, maybe not the exact same experience, but certainly the human aspect of it."
The Holiday opens to theatres on December 8th.
For the trailers, TV spots, posters, synopsis and more movie info, go to The
Holiday Movie Page.
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