Interview: Cameron Diaz

‘I want to be a big, fleshy, voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum but I don’t have one. Ageing has made all the difference. I’ve got a better relationship with my body,’ says the impossibly likeable Cameron Diaz.

Nancy Meyers, who directed the thirty-six year old actress in The Holiday, describes Cameon Diaz as ‘a human antidepressant’. And you get it the minute you meet her: there’s something inherently grounded and sincere – despite the hair, the eyes, the model looks. And in recent years, her credibility has risen more academically due to her proactive work as a conservationist.

Daughter of working-class parents, recently deceased Cuban father Emilio and native American mother, Billie, Cameron retains her earthly clutz charisma by keeping close to her roots. She’s the first to explain she came from the wrong side of the tracks and that her break into acting was an accident. She was a Levi’s model who went for a bit part in The Mask [1994] and was given the lead by director Chuck Russell…

Read the full interview in our April 2008 issue.
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