Kate Winslet “devastates” “The Holiday” fans with cottage news—”a façade”

One of Kate Winslet‘s most-popular movies, beloved by fans, has some secrets, and the actress has just revealed an especially juicy fact.

The Oscar winner starred as Iris in 2006’s The Holiday alongside Cameron Diaz, who played Amanda. Their characters swap houses for the Christmas holidays at the last minute. Amanda gets to stay in Iris’ idyllic English cottage in the countryside, while the Briton soaks up the sunshine from Amanda’s Californian abode. The Holiday would go on to gross more than $205 million at the global box office.

While visiting the foreign homes, the women find romance: Jude Law woos Amanda; and Iris falls in love with Jack Black’s music-composer character.

One of the other main characters in The Holiday is Iris’ charming home, but Winslet shas revealed that it was all a sham.

“I will tell you that all of the interiors of that beautiful English country cottage were studios built in Los Angeles, which is devastating to everyone who hears that about the cottage, that picture-postcard, perfect cottage,” Winslet said during a Vanity Fair YouTube video. “It was just a shell. It was just a façade.”

Winslet added: “It was just the sides, the front and the roof, and every time I’d go through that door into the cottage, I’d be standing in a bunch of rubble surrounded by scaffolding, old cans of Coke on the ground, and bits of old chewing-gum wrapper.”

Fans of The Holiday have long hoped for a sequel to the popular Christmas movie. but director and writer Nancy Meyers shut down any speculation in 2022.

She took to social media after an article was published saying that a sequel was in the works. “So many DM’s [direct messages] about this,” Meyers wrote on her official Instagram account. “Sorry but it’s not true.”

However, Law has recently addressed the potential of making another The Holiday movie.

“I love the idea. Why not?” Law told E! News on June 11, but he said that those keen for a sequel would have to ask Meyers if it was going ahead.

Even though Iris’ house was purpose-built for the movie, fans can still visit key locations, including Amanda’s home in San Marino, California.

Iris’ village is Shere, Surrey, in the south of England. It was also a filming location for other iconic movies, chiefly Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.