10. Sure, Amanda’s Los Angeles home is gorgeous, but Iris’ cute country cottage was the real swoonworthy location among the crew. After initially finding a charming home, the producers decided to build their own so they could be closer to London.
Calling Meyers “a perfectionist,” Law explained during a November 2024 appearance on BBC Radio 2’s The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, “She toured the 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.”
The production team created Rosehill Cottage in only two weeks, with Meyers saying in a DVD feature, “We built that wall and we put in those trees. It really was just an empty field. It was a real tourist attraction while it was there.”
Unfortunately, the building was torn down after filming and all of the interior scenes were done on a sound stage in Culver City, Calif. Thus, Meyers instructed her cinematographer Dean Cundey not to take any wide shots inside the cottage so it would feel small and cozy.
11. One of the film’s most iconic moments is Law’s Mr. Napkinhead performance, with a majority of the scene being improvised, according to Miffy Englefield, who beat out over 2,500 actresses to play Graham’s daughter, Sophie. Englefield revealed to Vulture that Law came up with the line about smoking being bad for you, while Englefield genuinely told Diaz that the bit was “so funny, you’ll fall off your chair.”
