She seemed absolutely the right choice for a California girl."ĥ. So Cameron's really a girl's girl and boys adore her obviously.
I am really only interested with women in my movies that are girl-friendly, I'm probably never going to work with those girls that only the guys like because I just don't get them. "It's really hard I think to be that cute and sexy and that funny and that sort of girl-friendly. "Cameron is a great comedienne and I thought about this before I cast her and once I cast her she continued to thrill me in that area," Meyers said. When it came to her California-based movie trailer editor who never cries, Diaz was an obvious choice for Meyers. What if we don't make them laugh?' You know, very nervous about the whole thing."Ĥ. 'Oh my god, they're going to fire us! They're going to recast. And Jude and I would speak on the telephone a lot before we started shooting. "I was so excited to do something new and also nervous you know? The worry of, 'Can I be funny?' It's a terrible thing to be concerned about. "I've never done a romantic comedy or something that is labelled as that before," Winslet explained to in 2006. While Winslet was the inspiration for Iris, the Titanic star was convinced she was going to be fired from the movie. "If you're writing a 30-year-old woman in England you obviously think of Kate Winslet, she's just one of the great actresses," Meyers explained to ComingSoon.Net.ģ. To be fair, casting Winslet was pretty much a no-brainer. It's natural to start fantasizing about who is going to be in it."Ģ. "I can't imagine it, you know somebody has got to say it and do it. "You know, I think a screenwriter would lie to you if they said, 'I don't think about anybody when I am writing,'" the famed scribe told ComingSoon.Net. Director Nancy Meyers wrote her leading ladies Iris and Amanda with Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz in mind. It was always something I felt badly about."īut thanks to fans reaching out to her on Instagram, especially during the Coronavirus pandemic, Meyers continued, "It has brought so much joy to me because of people's response to it."ġ. "It wasn't that I didn't watch it because I lost faith in it-it was that I felt badly. "So, for many years, I didn't see it, but then audiences found it over the years," Meyers admitted to Vulture last December. While the movie went on to gross over $205 million at the box office and became a Christmas classic, Meyers, who also directed Something's Gotta Give and It's Complicated, was initially devastated when it only made $12 million during its opening weekend and some critics were less than cheerful in their reviews. 8, 2006, with one of the rom-com genre's greatest writers gifting viewers with two love stories to swoon over as two women agree to swap homes for the holidays.
Nancy Meyers' rom-com starring Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jack Blackand Jude Law came out on Dec. Are you looking for corny in your life? Well, put on The Holiday.