into the mainstream. starring opposite l-‘ricnds star Jennifer Aniston in 5/1er The One and stealing the picture from Julia Roberts in My lies! Friend's
“Pr/dilly. ()h. and performing Bobby Darin's 'Beyond The Sea‘ with liwan .\lc(iregor in Danny Boyle’s :\ Life Less ()rdinmjv.
'We immediately just fit.’ she says of Crieff's own love-god. 'We went straight into a dance rehearsal for four days. so we got very close. very fast.’ Future roles
include playing the part of a bride opposite Christian Slater in Very Bad Things and then she‘s starring with Al Pacino in Any Given Sum/av. an Oliver Stone movie about American football.
All this sophisticated celeb behaviour should. by rights. have turned Diaz into a diet-watching. spirituality-seeking. bland Hollywood health-head by now. but. thankfully. she seems to have
the same crap taste as the rest of
us. 'I love grease.‘ she laughs.
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‘l'm a cheeseburger junkie. And I love heavy metal. Anything softer than Alice In Chains makes my skin crawl.‘
Cameron Diaz is a movie star for the junk food generation. an idler’s idol — she‘s into booze. burgers and big. sweaty bands. Hell. she probably even smokes cigars.
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PHYSICAL JERK
English co-star Lee Evans on getting down to earth with Cameron and Matt.
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Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon and Ben Stiller may bring Hollywood glamour to There’s Something About Mary, but there‘s a small corner of the Farrelly brothers' screwball movie that is forever England — that small corner is Lee Evans.
The leaping, Iolloping. laugh-machine from Southend came to the attention of Pete and Bobby Farrelly through his work on Mousehunt and Funny Bones. They snapped up the oh-so-physical comic for their dumbed-up film in which he plays Mary's friend Tucker, a fraudulent architect who secretly fancies her.
'We wanted to take advantage of Lee's physicality,‘ says Peter Farrelly. ‘We ended up putting him on crutches and he did a couple of hilarious bits with it.’
As for Evans, he's remarkably unphased by all this Tinseltown attentidn. On Matt Dillon, who he has a massive scrap with in the film, he says, ‘Good bloke. Top man. Matt's very down to earth. We went out for a beer, y'know?’
Working with a sex symbol like Diaz, however, caused a bit more of a stir down his local boozer. 'I've still got the same mates I've always had,’ he says. 'And they were going "What was she like? Cameron Diaz — oh, blimey!" But she was actually a really nice person, there was none of this "My trailer's not big enough!" crap. I got on well with her, actually. We had a right Iaugh.’ (Peter Ross)
24 Sep—8 Oct 1998 THE UST9