Cameron Diaz recreated the most hilarious scene of Something About Mary
More than 20 years have passed since the premiere of Loco por María, that hilarious film by the Farelli brothers that ended up invigorating the careers of Ben Stiller and Cameron Díaz. The one in which the most scatological accidents occurred almost one after another and where the absurd took over a love story between two former schoolmates. The life of both actors has changed a lot: while Stiller continues to work in the industry, Diaz decided to retire from acting a while ago to become an entrepreneur and spend time with his daughter. However, memories prevail in popular memory and that is why, on the occasion of the promotion of her canned organic wine, the actress was encouraged to recreate one of the most iconic scenes of the 1998 film: the famous “gel” in her hair. .
In the video shared by Diaz, who is the creator with Katherine Power of avalina, an organic wine, a man is seen driving and in the background a voice is heard saying: "Oh, my God, Terry, let's eat at the Cameron Diaz's house, how do I look? ”, Responds the driver with an unconvinced face: “Fine”. At home, Cameron awaits the arrival of his friends, when he opens the door he finds Terry accompanied by Mary's clone, a man in a red dress, similar to the one she wore in the movie, and with the same hairstyle with straight legs that caused so much Laughter. years ago. Immediately afterwards, Cameron appears with the same dress and hairstyle. Both "Marys" drink from cans of Avaline. "Bringing cans was not the strangest thing about our dinner," the businesswoman wrote next to the video that she uploaded to her Instagram account.
The publication was celebrated by fans of the film on social networks. In this way, Díaz, 49, paid tribute not only to the film but to a scene that both she and Stiller resisted before shooting.
The story behind the scenes
Years ago, to celebrate the anniversary of the film, the Farelly brothers told Variety some details of the shoot. In addition to revealing that Stiller's fly accident was inspired by a true event, other anecdotes emerged. One of them related to the gel scene. Apparently that part was in doubt for a while until the filmmakers made the decision to trust that joke. The Farellys first asked Cameron if you had a problem with that part of the movie [in which he confuses semen with gel and applies it to his hair to generate a jopo effect] and, although at first he said no, then Díaz ended up showing his indecision. It's that she didn't know if shooting that scene in the movie would harm her ascending career. Something that, with the result fixed, it could be said that not only did it not happen but that it made it even more known and coveted in the industry.
“I had a few questions at first, as you never know how something is going to turn out before it's done. I trusted Bobby and Peter [Farelly] because they're obviously a lot of fun, and when we saw the visual side of the gag, I realized how right they were," Cameron Diaz told the aforementioned outlet.
Meanwhile, Stiller has also referred to the scene. “My big problem with that scene, which I discussed with the Farrelly brothers during filming, was the fact that there was no way the character couldn't feel that in his ear. I tried to convince them to put in a little story where he, for some reason, had lost feeling in his ear due to a blow or something," the actor told The New York Times. But he also decided to trust. "They finally told me it didn't matter and to stop thinking about it," he added. And he confessed that he did not know how the public was going to receive the proposal, not only for that fragment but for all the others as well. "I remember thinking that it would either be a lot of fun, a good movie and different, or it would be the worst movie."
Cameron's new life
"I started experiencing fame when I was 22, so it's been over 25 of that... It's a long time. How I see it is that I have given more than half of my life to the public, ”said the actress as she began to say goodbye to the performance. Some time later, his new project reached everyone's ears. The actress decided to create an organic wine, which she called Avalina. Her venture began one afternoon in 2018 in the backyard of her house. Together with her friend and partner, Katherine Power, they reflected on the products they consumed and their composition, the wine came into discussion and they quickly agreed that they were both interested in drinking a "clean" one.
This change was also related to a new moment in her private life: the actress married musician Benjamin Madden in 2015 and decided to focus on her family. She was the mother of two-year-old Raddix Madden, whom she wants to keep out of the media.
"Motherhood and marriage have been the most fulfilling part of my life so far...it's so important. I probably waited to be able to do all these things, to not have any distractions,"
