The Holiday cottage.
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Jude Law Admits ‘The Holiday’ Cottage “Doesn’t Exist”
For fans of The Holiday movie hoping to someday Airbnb the cottage from the film, Jude Law has some disappointing news.
In an interview with BBC Radio on Sunday, the actor, who starred in the 2006 film alongside Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jack Black, made a big reveal about the film’s Rosehill cottage after the hosts asked him if they could “Airbnb that cottage.”
“That cottage doesn’t exist,” Law tells them. “Oooh, yeah,” he adds as they all shared shocked reactions.
“So the director, she’s a bit of a perfectionist,” he said of Nancy Meyers. “She toured that whole area and didn’t quite find the chocolate box cottage she’s looking for. So she just hired a field and drew it and had someone build it.”
He continued to explain how filming at the cottage worked: “So here’s the funny thing, if you watch it … We were shooting in the winter here. And every time I’d go in that door, we’d cut, and we shot the interiors in L.A. about three months later.”
When the hosts told him to stop given he was telling them something about the film they couldn’t “bear” and found “upsetting” Law quipped, “Just burst the bubble. Sorry!”
As for how he feels about fans rewatching the film every holiday season, Law called it “glorious.”
Despite not being an actual home, the film’s Rosehill cottage was reportedly inspired by an English cottage located in Surrey Hills in the United Kingdom known as the Honeysuckle Cottage.
Law starred in the rom-com as Diaz’s love interest and Winslet’s brother. The film centers on Diaz and Winslet’s characters swapping homes for the holidays where they have their own adventures and find love in unexpected places.
