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Cameron Diaz is featured in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times. She talks about playing Bad Teacher‘s Elizabeth Halsey as well as her old and upcoming characters. I have included a sample of the interview below, just click here to read the whole piece.
After 17 years of winning over moviegoers with her mile-long legs, breezy confidence and wide, almost goofy smile, one of Hollywood’s consummate charmers has had enough. Cut the charisma and cue the contempt: It’s time, finally, to loathe Cameron Diaz.
As an unrepentant moral scourge in her new film “Bad Teacher,” Diaz plays Elizabeth Halsey — an educator who steals, cheats, lies, sleeps in class, smokes pot in the school parking lot and swears like a trucker, often in red pen remarks scrawled on the work of her middle-school students. Dumped by her sugar daddy, Elizabeth’s goal is to make enough money for a pair of breast implants that she thinks will help earn her the affections of another meal ticket, a teacher with a trust fund (Justin Timberlake) who’s as mild as she is wild.
Thirty pages into reading the script, Diaz says she thought she’d pass on the role. Instead, she made a conscious decision to try something new.
“I’m trained as an actor to look for a character to be someone at the end who people like. Reading this script, I was thinking, there’s no way out of this for this girl,” Diaz says, twirling her hair and sipping a soy milk latte at a Beverly Hills restaurant. “She does so many things that are so selfish and narcissistic and closed off. How can she be redeemed?”
In person Diaz, 38, is perky but guarded, and fond of the word “amazing.” The script? Amazing. Her costars? Amazing. The set? Amazing. That soy milk latte? Also apparently pretty darn good. But the indefatigably cheerful actress confesses she found a certain liberation in Elizabeth’s dismal disposition.
“Her disdain for life is one that I relished playing,” Diaz says. “I’m such a cheerleader, it’s kind of fun to play a character who thinks everything sucks.”
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