Jude Law ‘ruins’ The Holiday with behind-the-scenes secret: ‘Just burst the bubble’

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Jude Law appears to have burst The Holiday bubble just before Christmas.

The British actor, who starred in the beloved Nancy Meyers hit in 2006 alongside Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz, addressed the upcoming holiday season in a recent BBC Radio interview.

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Jude Law reveals behind-the-scenes secret of The Holiday.

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The film involves Amanda (Diaz) and Iris (Winslet) swapping homes to get away from their relationship issues.

When Amanda arrives in the UK and Iris in Los Angeles, both their lives change when they unexpectedly meet and fall in love with local men.

The beloved Rosehill Cottage in the UK part of the story is the romantic setting in which Law’s character Graham falls in love with Diaz’s Amanda.

The beloved Rosehill Cottage based in the UK is the romantic setting where Law’s chracter of Graham and Diaz’s Amanda fall in love.

Addressing the house, interviewer Zoe Ball asks Law, “You think we could Airbnb that cottage?”

“That cottage doesn’t exist,” Law replies.

The room appeared to gasp in response, prompting Law to double down, “Oooh, yeah”.

“That’s my dream home!” one of the team stated, expressing the thoughts of many fans.

“So the director, she’s a bit of a perfectionist,” he says of the film’s director Nancy Meyers.

“She toured that whole area and didn’t quite find the chocolate box cottage she’s looking for.

“So she just (rented) a field, and drew it and had someone build it.”

As the house was constructed as a facade, inside scenes were shot in Los Angeles.

Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Kate Winslet during The Holiday London Premiere.

“So here’s the funny thing, if you watch it . . . We were shooting in the winter here,” he said.

“And every time I’d go in that door, we’d cut, and we shot the interiors in LA about three months later.”

Someone else cuts in: “Oh no, please stop! We don’t want to hear anymore! You’re ruining it!

“We can’t bear it.”

“Just burst the bubble. Sorry!” Law said.

Law’s character Graham had two daughters Sophie and Olivia, who are now both adults.

Child actor Miffy Englefield played Jude Law’s six-year-old daughter Sophie in the film, an older sister to Olivia, played by Emma Pritchard.

Now aged 25, Englefield is a mother to four-year-old daughter, Frankie.

Last year she decided to recreate the plot of The Holiday and do a home exchange, just like Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet’s characters do in the film.

She said, via TikTok, she wanted to “live out our Holiday fantasy”.

Using a website called Home Exchange, Englefield, her daughter and her partner travelled to the English countryside.

“Back in 2006 I played Sophie in The Holiday, a film where two people swap houses via a website called Home Exchange — which I didn’t know was real until very recently,” she said in the video.

“We’re using the website and going on holiday in someone else’s house.”

Taking her audience through the “farmhouse” style location they chose, she showed off the interiors and the sweet country town in which they were staying.

Just like Diaz’s character in the film, the family went to a local farm shop — with Englefield joking that she restrained herself from opening a bottle of wine at the cash register, as is seen in the film.

“This is really so much like The Holiday!” one viewer responded.

“It’s almost like a perfect reflection of the film,” another said.