Celebrity Interview - In The Shoes of Cameron Diaz
In The Shoes of Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz admits to being "like every other woman: a closet full of clothes but nothing to wear, so I wear jeans". Referring to the 2005 film In Her Shoes, she also reveals an obsession for shoes. "I adore wearing sandals and flip-flops. I love collecting lots of different tones of the same model, and I think that\'s where I\'m dangerous when shopping." Self-described as "adventurous, independent and a tough kid", she is a vegetarian, one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood and planning to marry singer Justin Timberlake - eight years younger than her.
Interview supplied courtesy of Home Entertainment. The DVD for In Her Shoes is now available in Spain, or order online at: www.foxhome.com
When Jessica Simpson was filming Dukes of Hazzard, she covered herself up with a sarong between takes because she felt uncomfortable being scantily-clad. In In Her Shoes, you\'re constantly walking around in your underwear and other revealing outfits. Did you cover up on set?
I wear a bikini all the time. I grew up on the beach and I surf so I wear a bikini. I don\'t have any discomfort. There is no shame associated with my body. I try not to be too over-conscious of my body image. I don\'t like to go around going, "Does my butt look fat? Oh my God!" I try not to have that aspect. It\'s just too much energy and a bore. All the people around you don\'t want to be going, \'Your ass looks good, don\'t worry." And I really don\'t want to be surrounded by those people.
But there were a lot of scenes in In Her Shoes when you are just in a bikini...
Sometimes I\'m in a swimsuit and sometimes there might be a creepy guy on set or an extra I don\'t know who keeps looking at me in a way that makes me uncomfortable. It\'s not about my body, it\'s just about him. I might cover up. But it was important for me to exploit that aspect of Maggie because that was really who she was. Her body was her tool, it was her instrument. It was how she got through the world. We could have gone further with Maggie. I mean I could have actually been naked. I could have really worn skimpy stuff. Other than the cleavage and the bikini I didn\'t think that anything was really inappropriate.
There\'s a scene in the film when Toni Collette\'s character says to you that your looks will fade in 10 years and you won\'t have anything else. Do you think about how your looks will have faded in 10 years?
I don\'t really worry about it. I really look forward to growing older. I love getting older. I love being my age now. I just turned 33 and I love being 33. I look forward to being in a retirement village with active seniors at some point. I think it would be awesome. But at this point in my life I feel like I want to move through that aging process gracefully. I hope I get all the great attributes of a healthy, happy lifestyle.
Are you as disorganised as Maggie in real life?
It really depends on the day and the situation, and the people who are involved. I can be incredibly on top of things or I can be completely un-organised and let everything go to the way side...I can get things done if I have to and I can let things go. Oh God. It\'s terrible. I can procrastinate with the best of them.
You work a lot less these days: are you recharging your batteries?
Yes, for 10 years I just worked one film after the other. In the last four to five years, I have just thought I want to enjoy my life. I love making movies, but at a certain point you just go, "OK, where do I live? What do I have?" You grow tired of having to try to make everywhere you go your home. You just want a place to put your stuff. I just decided that I need to make my home because I can go as long as I know where my shit is. That made it easier and I just slowed it down a little bit. I started picking up more things that I like doing.
Would you consider doing English theater?
No, no, I could never do theatre. I can\'t remember my lines.
A Star Is Born
- Born in San Diego on 30 August 1972, the daughter of a Cuban-American father and mother of Italian, German and Native American descent.
- At 16, she was allowed by her parents to spend five years traveling the world to purse a modeling career.
- She was reportedly discovered by a photographer at a Hollywood party who - within a week . helped her land a contact at the Elite modeling agency.
- Her first major movie break came, as a 21-year-old, in The Mask; and she achieved star status, and a $2 million pay cheque, for There\'s Something About Mary (1998).
- In 2003 she became only the second actress after Julia Roberts to be paid $20 million for a film, Charlie\'s Angels: Full Throttle.
The Real Cameron
- Growing up I was the plain one. I had not style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair."
- My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I\'m blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren\'t Hispanic can\'t believe I am. And people who are Hispanic always think I\'m not, because I don\'t look like them. Being Latin is part of whom I am and I bring that part to every role."
- I didn\'t realise (The Mask) was a fairly large film that I was a part of. Halfway through I was going, \'Is there any place that my mom and dad can see this film?\' And they\'re going, \'Cameron, at the theatres!\' I ahd no idea. Durrrrrr. I\'m blonde; I\'m, allowed."
- "I\'d love to start a family. I\'m at an age when your desire for a child is at its peak. I\'m especially in favour of the idea of adopting a homeless child."
- "Whenever I don\'t have to use make-up, for me that\'s a good day."
