Anna Faris has addressed the long-standing rumor that she based her character on Lost in translation about Cameron Diaz, and made it clear that she was never happy with the speculation in the first place.
Talking about the Happy Sad Confused On the Thursday, June 4, podcast, Faris, 49, rejected the idea that her portrayal of a cheerful, self-absorbed actress in Sofia Coppola’s 2003 film was a deliberate dig at the Charlie’s Angels star.
“I was always a little bothered by that accusation,” he said.
“I felt like it took away from my enjoyment a little bit, and because I had auditioned and earned it for that performance, I always thought, ‘No, I’m not part of some big weird sabotage.'”
Faris explained that his inspiration came from a completely different source.
Having recently moved to Los Angeles from Seattle, he encountered a type of person he had never encountered before, someone he describes as “a self-described author.”
“A person who says, ‘I am this and I’m spiritual and I’m really creative and my aura is this,'” she said.
That was the energy he harnessed when he auditioned for the role, and Díaz did not enter his thoughts at any time.
The rumors apparently reached Díaz and affected her.
Faris said he had read that Diaz’s feelings were hurt and that he had wanted to reach out, but had struggled to find the right way to do it. The closest he came to clearing things up was when Diaz appeared on his own podcast. Anna Faris is not qualifiedin 2021.
“Maybe we should clear things up in this podcast?” he joked Thursday.
“I only had 25 minutes with her. I didn’t know if I should jump right in until I said, ‘I’m so sorry. I wasn’t doing that.’ Anyway, I don’t know if I handled it right.”
He also noted that he never felt able to ask director Sofia Coppola to set the record straight publicly.
What he could do, however, was offer Diaz a genuine compliment, and he did.
“She does something I call the ‘Cameron Diaz Effect,’ which is a scene in Charlie’s Angels when she is dancing The baby came backMan, he’s having so much fun. The audience is having a lot of fun. You’re loving it,” Faris said.
“I was able to give him that compliment.”
It is, by Faris’s own admission, an imperfect resolution to a two-decade-old misunderstanding, but a sincere one.
