Jude Law says cottage from ‘The Holiday’ doesn’t exist: “sorry, just burst the bubble”

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Jude Law has said the cottage from The Holiday doesn’t exist and apologised for “bursting the bubble.”Law appeared in the 2006 film alongside Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz and Jack Black.

The film has became a Christmas classic among fans in recent year and was especially noted for its idyllic countryside location in the UK.The cottage in question was home to Winslet’s character Iris in the film, and later Diaz’s Amanda when they swap homes as part of a holiday arrangement.The actor was speaking to Zoe Ball and comedian Kerry Godliman last Friday (November 22) when Godliman asked “can you Airbnb that cottage?’, to which the Ball replied: “I think so”.

However, Law went on to reveal that this wasn’t the case.Speaking on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on Radio 2, Law confirmed that the cottage wasn’t real and was specially built for the film.“That cottage doesn’t exist,” Law said before admitting he’d “just burst the bubble” and jokingly apologised.He then went on to detail the backstory. “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 was looking for.

So she just hired a field and drew it. And had someone build it.”He added: “But here’s the funny thing: if you watch it so, we were shooting it in the winter here, and every time I’d go in that door [of the cottage], we cut, and we shot the interiors in L.A.