For fans of Nancy Meyers’ romcom classic The Holiday, it might come as a shock to learn that the iconic English cottage featured in the film isn’t real. Jude Law, who plays Graham in the rom-com, broke the news to many last year that the charming countryside home where Cameron Diaz’s heartbroken Hollywood executive, Amanda, retreats at Christmastime was actually filmed on soundstages.
The revelation certainly came as a surprise to Georgia-based home designer Lucy Small. “I assumed it was a real place,” she tells The Independent. “I didn’t realize that they went so far as to build the exterior.”
