In the newest edition of Marie Claire magazine, Cameron Diaz shares her feelings on her role in Annie.
Diaz revealed that she was terrified of taking on the role of the film because she had to overcome her fear of singing in front of people for her part as Miss. Hannigan in Will Gluck’s newest adaptation of the musical.
“It’s not very often you get to do a musical. Even though I was terrified of doing it, I kind of had to.
The two things I’m most terrified of are heights and singing in front of people.
I’ve jumped out of airplanes and scaled sides of cliffs – not to get over my fears, but to address them. I just felt like this is something that needed to be addressed. I cried uncontrollably.
She continued:
Everybody was so supportive and having fun with it because I was so pathetic, but the only way to get through scary things is to have a sense of humor about it.”
She went on to discuss appearing fully nude in films, saying:
“People have seen my butt. I’ve shown the top of my butt, the bottom of my butt. I’m not opposed to doing nudity, as long as it’s part of the story. I’ll do whatever has to get done if it’s the right thing.”
The actress also talked about the possibility of having children, saying:
“We live in a society where everyone has kids, so they want other people to have kids. There is this culture that says celebrities are supposed to be just like us, so people think, ‘I have children, why doesn’t she?’ But I’m not going to do something because it’s expected.”
She concluded by saying:
“If a family happens, then it happens. If children come to me, then I would do that, but I’m not someone who feels like she has to do something because it’s expected.”
Diaz appears on the cover of Marie Claire‘s November issue, which is available from October 21.
