Jude Law’s daughter from The Holidays is a mum – and we’re feeling old

10. Yes, Amanda’s home in Los Angeles is beautiful, but Iris’ cute cottage was the real swoon-worthy location among the crew. After finding a charming home, the producers decided to build their own so they could be closer to London.

He called Meyers “a perfectionist,” Law explained in November 2024 appearance on BBC Radio 2’s The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show“She toured the whole area and didn’t quite find the chocolate box house she was looking for. So she just hired a field and designed it and got someone to build it.”

The production team created Rosehill Cottage in just two weeks, with Meyers saying in a DVD feature: “We built that wall and we put those trees in. It was really just an empty field. It was a real tourist attraction while it was there. “

Unfortunately, the building was demolished after filming, and all of the interior scenes were performed on a sound stage in Culver City, California. Thus Meyers instructed his cinematographer Dean Cundey not to take any wide pictures inside the cottage, so it would feel small and cosy.

11. One of the film’s most iconic moments is Law’s Mr. Napkinhead performance, where the majority of the scene is improvised according to Miffy Englefieldwho beat out over 2,500 actresses to play Graham’s daughter, Sophie. Englefield revealed to Vulture that Law delivered the line about smoking being bad for you, while Englefield earnestly told Diaz that it was “so funny you’ll fall off your chair.”