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Jude Law joked that he felt “guilty” about telling fans about it one particular aspect of recording The Holiday.
Romcom from 2006 that follows Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz like two women in love who change houses at Christmas time a festive classicand fans visit it every year.
Law plays Diaz’s romantic interest, and most of his scenes are set in a quaint, snow-covered country cottage in Surrey.
In a new interview in The Observer Magazinethe caller told Law they heard the cottage “never existed,” to which he replied, “I know, and the interiors were in a studio in Los Angeles. Because of this devotion [from fans]I actually feel guilty telling people, breaking the dream… Listen, it’s real in the movie, that’s all that matters.”
He also admitted that he had no idea that the film would become so popular. “It leaves me speechless, but I find it quite moving,” Law said.
“I mean, it was really just another job. It was a lot of fun, we had fun making it and I knew I was in the hands of someone who knew how to pull off something like that. Then, yes, wave after wave of revisits started happening. You can’t plan for it, but it’s really wonderful.”
The film was directed by Nancy Meyers, who wrote and directed The parent trap, what women want, something has to give and Intern.
The law recently made headlines seems to be teasing a sequelwhile in conversation with Meyers.
And last month he explained that the cottage in the film only exists because Meyers couldn’t find a house she liked. “So the director, she’s a bit of a perfectionist,” he said.
“She went all over the area and didn’t quite find the candy house she was looking for. So she just [rented] field, drew it and had someone build it.”
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Only the exterior of the house was built, which means that the scenes inside the house were filmed elsewhere.
“So here’s the funny thing, if you look… We shot here in the winter. And every time I walked in that door, we would cut and shoot the inside [Los Angeles] about three months later.”