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funky_chick
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Great pics 
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Lennie1984
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Yes, exactly - it shocked me as well, i just started to cry i was beyond shocked - i couldnt get my head around it at first, it was something that wouldnt happened but it had 
They do whilst watching the trailer, i also think that Sofia and Abi's Kate/Anna lookswise do resemble Cameron's Sara in the movie, if you just see the movie pics and the poster - like i said before the castings are great
You know when i saw Sofia i seriously thought she was much older then her real age which is 16 i believe right now, i thought she was way older lol
They do whilst watching the trailer, i also think that Sofia and Abi's Kate/Anna lookswise do resemble Cameron's Sara in the movie, if you just see the movie pics and the poster - like i said before the castings are great
You know when i saw Sofia i seriously thought she was much older then her real age which is 16 i believe right now, i thought she was way older lol
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margravine_l
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When I saw the trailer for this movie, I had to go out and buy the book because it looked so amazing and I wanted to read the story before I went to see it. I finished the book in a couple of days and I have to say it was amazing!
The ending totally made me cry and was completely unexpected. [sp]It was bittersweet because you got the impression Anna was going to donate a kidney to Kate and we know that would have put her into remission for ten years. I felt really bad for Sara, a mother who'd been trying for so long to delay the inevitable death of her eldest daughter only to have her youngest taken from her suddenly and unexpectedly. You know she would never have wanted to trade the life of one daughter for another. [/sp]
I was really happy to see Abigail Breslin cast as Anna. She is IMO perfect for the role and a really talented young actress. I love all her films and can't wait to see her performance in this, although no doubt I will cry.
Its great to see Cameron cast as the mother in this film and will be interesting to see her in a more serious role to that which we are used to. I bet that she will be amazing!
Sofia is supposed to be brilliant in this role and I can't wait to see her performance of a character who is constantly under so much scrutiny and the centre of attention.
Although I will probably cry, I can't wait to see it. I am even not surprised that they changed the ending of the movie, although the original would have been devastating to see. I think I can guess the route they've chosen to go and it'll be just as sad
The ending totally made me cry and was completely unexpected. [sp]It was bittersweet because you got the impression Anna was going to donate a kidney to Kate and we know that would have put her into remission for ten years. I felt really bad for Sara, a mother who'd been trying for so long to delay the inevitable death of her eldest daughter only to have her youngest taken from her suddenly and unexpectedly. You know she would never have wanted to trade the life of one daughter for another. [/sp]
I was really happy to see Abigail Breslin cast as Anna. She is IMO perfect for the role and a really talented young actress. I love all her films and can't wait to see her performance in this, although no doubt I will cry.
Its great to see Cameron cast as the mother in this film and will be interesting to see her in a more serious role to that which we are used to. I bet that she will be amazing!
Sofia is supposed to be brilliant in this role and I can't wait to see her performance of a character who is constantly under so much scrutiny and the centre of attention.
Although I will probably cry, I can't wait to see it. I am even not surprised that they changed the ending of the movie, although the original would have been devastating to see. I think I can guess the route they've chosen to go and it'll be just as sad
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Lennie1984
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Dont worry, mostly everyone i know and what i saw in cinema ppl were crying, tears rolling down their faces
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margravine_l
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I really liked the soundtrack as well.
I can kind of see why Jodi wrote the ending she did to the book. I think that she was trying to make a point which her ending did, but I didn't mind the film ending In fact, I always thought that considering the seriousness of Kate's condition and her other medical issues that it was [sp] a little far-fetched that she survived so long at the end of the book.
I always kind of felt that Jodi should have made it so that Anna ended up donating the kidney to Kate and then have the transplant fail anyway because she was so sick. Just my opinion though. In fact, I thought that's what the film would do [/sp]
I can kind of see why Jodi wrote the ending she did to the book. I think that she was trying to make a point which her ending did, but I didn't mind the film ending
In fact, I always thought that considering the seriousness of Kate's condition and her other medical issues that it was [sp] a little far-fetched that she survived so long at the end of the book.I always kind of felt that Jodi should have made it so that Anna ended up donating the kidney to Kate and then have the transplant fail anyway because she was so sick. Just my opinion though. In fact, I thought that's what the film would do [/sp]
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taovande
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I just reread the book and I managed to hold the tears back. So it's looking even more promising that I might have the courage to see the movie in the theatres.
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Lennie1984
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Must of taken alot of courage to shave off your head and eyebrows and that being 15 yrs old - big ups to Sofia :clap:
The article is interesting, i am glad they liked it, cant wait for more reviews
The article is interesting, i am glad they liked it, cant wait for more reviews
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Lennie1984
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Director Nick Cassavetes Impressed W/ Cameron Diaz In Movie My Sister's Keeper
Moviemaker Nick Cassavetes has heaped praise on Cameron Diaz for her portrayal as a young mom with a sick daughter - because the actress brought back memories of his own health crisis as a young father.
Cassavetes knew casting Diaz as a mom in hard-hitting drama My Sister's Keeper would be criticized, but he urges those who feel she isn't up for such a tough role to check out the upcoming movie - and weep.
He tells Wenn, "Yes, she's never played a mother and she's playing a mother of three in this movie but that didn't scare me. I knew she was up for it. I'm more proud of her performance in the film than I am proud of things in my life."
Recalling his own daughter's battle with heart problems, the director adds, "When I was a young man my second daughter was diagnosed with congenital heart disease when she was a week old. When I was young the world was wide open before me and I was a happy guy. I didn't know anything about life and this illness from my daughter, Sasha, was temperance on my soul.
"It was a learning experience. It was something I had to go through and she had to go through and we had to go through together, with her mother and the entire family. Cameron felt like who I was at that time."
Director Nick Cassavetes Impressed W/ Cameron Diaz In Movie My Sister's Keeper
Moviemaker Nick Cassavetes has heaped praise on Cameron Diaz for her portrayal as a young mom with a sick daughter - because the actress brought back memories of his own health crisis as a young father.
Cassavetes knew casting Diaz as a mom in hard-hitting drama My Sister's Keeper would be criticized, but he urges those who feel she isn't up for such a tough role to check out the upcoming movie - and weep.
He tells Wenn, "Yes, she's never played a mother and she's playing a mother of three in this movie but that didn't scare me. I knew she was up for it. I'm more proud of her performance in the film than I am proud of things in my life."
Recalling his own daughter's battle with heart problems, the director adds, "When I was a young man my second daughter was diagnosed with congenital heart disease when she was a week old. When I was young the world was wide open before me and I was a happy guy. I didn't know anything about life and this illness from my daughter, Sasha, was temperance on my soul.
"It was a learning experience. It was something I had to go through and she had to go through and we had to go through together, with her mother and the entire family. Cameron felt like who I was at that time."
Director Nick Cassavetes Impressed W/ Cameron Diaz In Movie My Sister's Keeper
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Lennie1984
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Candid Cameron Diaz
You may think that Cameron Diaz's latest role, playing the mother of a dying child, is a blatant Oscar bid – but she denies it. The actress tells Gill Pringle what her real motivation is for taking on such a hard-hitting part
Friday, 12 June 2009
Pressed into promotional duties for her latest film, My Sister's Keeper – in which she plays a wife and mother of three kids, including a terminally ill child – Cameron Diaz can see the inevitable questions a mile off.
As yet unwed, and childless, the 36-year-old actress smiles, turns those bright cornflower-blue eyes up to full wattage, and prepares for battle. "I think it's only normal for people to ask my views on motherhood, especially of someone my age, because it seems like the obvious thing, like 'Why haven't you done it yet?' But it doesn't bother me. It's not the cross I bear. I simply have no idea at this stage in my life. Besides, I'm still young," she says.
"I have one nephew and four nieces, I've seen three births, two vaginal, one C-section... I've been there for the dirty diapers, I've done the bottles... I know what it takes to do it. I think that I have a good sense of what it takes to be a mother and, although I'm not mother, I feel that it's the closest I can get.
"I also understand about loving very deeply and knowing that I would do anything just to save somebody that I love. No, I'm not the mother of a sick child but I can imagine those feelings.
"I also don't know what it's like to be an 18th-century pickpocket, you know what I mean?" she says, in reference to Gangs of New York. "Or to have a mother who killed herself as with In Her Shoes, and have to deal with that. But that's what us actors do," she says.
My Sister's Keeper is pure Oscar fodder – Diaz plays a mother who has a genetically engineered test-tube baby to use, essentially, for spare parts for her eldest daughter who is dying of leukaemia. Sofia Vassilieva gives a heart-wrenching performance as a sick teen whose illness is only complicated by her fighting family. Abigail Breslin, already a former Oscar nominee for Little Miss Sunshine, plays the sister whose burden it is to help keep her big sister alive.
Asking an actor if they would like an Oscar is usually like asking a dog if it would like a bone. However, in Diaz's case, her reply is unexpected: "No! Do you know what you have to do to get an Oscar? You have to talk to a lot of you people for like days and months on end. Not you, though. I'll talk to you any day!" she adds, realising that this might not be the wisest remark.
But her response is only partly in jest. The truth is that she is one of the most "papped" actresses, owing to her past relationships with Justin Timberlake, Matt Dillon, Jared Leto, John Mayer and, more recently, British model Paul Sculfor.
High-profile legal battles with US tabloid media over paparazzi photos have left her cautious: "Look, when I meet people I'm happy to say hello. I'm not in a bubble; and I don't go through the world not talking to people. I'm in the world; it's just the way I live my life. But I can't always stop and take pictures or sign autographs because everybody's got a camera these days."
The paparazzi, it seems, won't leave her alone – even suggesting she had shaved her head for a poignant scene in her latest film. "Of course I didn't shave my head! I mean, I would be like a scientific freak right now. They would have me in a lab with my scalp, trying to figure out how I grew my hair back so fast. But the paparazzi will say anything to sell their pictures, believe me," she says, playing with her wispy blonde hair, as we sit together in a Santa Monica hotel room.
One of Hollywood's most successful models-turned-actresses, by her own admission she has no desire to churn out films. She has made only 25 movies – not including her voice work in the Shrek animated series – since she first appeared 15 years ago alongside Jim Carrey in The Mask.
"But awards have never been a motivation to do what I do. I'm not doing this to be 'on top' or whatever. I'm doing this to tell stories, particularly with this one. So when I accepted this role, I wasn't thinking to myself, 'Oh people don't see me as a mother! I'm gonna play a mother and then maybe I'm gonna get these other parts...'," she says, adopting an over-the-top "lovey" voice.
"And it's not like I even view this role as some kind of stretch because it feels as if I haven't played the same character twice or even told the same story. I look at it sort of like, 'OK, I did The Mask, and then I did Last Supper, Feeling Minnesota, My Best Friend's Wedding... and then There's Something About Mary that made everybody look. But then I did Being John Malkovich, Any Given Sunday, Gangs of New York and Vanilla Sky... Oh my God! Why am I going through my career?!" she laughs, as if waking from a personal reverie. "Umm, you know, so I feel like I have done a lot of different things."
It was Diaz's demonstrated versatility which attracted My Sister's Keeper director Nick Cassavetes in the first place: "I've been a fan of Cameron for a long time and, frankly, her dramatic roles are among my favourites. And I understand that she is most often associated with comedy because she's so good at making people laugh. I mean, I wouldn't want Sacha Baron Cohen to make me cry but I think Cameron is equally capable of doing both," he says.
Submerged in her role as a mother forced to watch her family fall apart, Diaz sadly experienced her own loss in the midst of filming My Sister's Keeper. Production came to an abrupt halt last year when her 58-year-old father Emilio Diaz suddenly died of pneumonia. "I was in shock," she whispers. "My dad was a huge part of my life and I think about him every day still. He will be a part of me forever."
However, it's clear that Diaz doesn't like to be sad for too long. She has an infectious laugh and nobody could accuse her of not having a sense of humour. She sent up her former relationship with Timberlake – nine years her junior – in a sketch on US satirical show Saturday Night Live entitled "The Cougars' Den". Co-starring Alec Baldwin, she portrayed a particular lustful "cougar" known as Kiki Damore. "I like to enjoy myself," she says. "If you can't laugh at yourself, then what can you laugh about?"
Together with Leonardo DiCaprio, Diaz was one of Hollywood's first "green advocates", both driving Priuses and appearing on platforms promoting sustainable living. And, proving that it's not just lip-service, today she sips from a huge aluminum water bottle and a thermal coffee mug.
"What's wonderful right now is that there's more and more opportunities to incorporate this sustainability into your life," she says, eagerly indicating her one-and-a-half-litre water bottle. "I have 10 of these at home, and then just fill one or two with water before I leave for the day and keep them with me. I think right now is a critical time; it's time for us to learn more and I want to be part of helping people to learn more.
"I can't always be perfect but you try to balance it out; it's not a perfect world. Unfortunately, I can't transport myself to a world where we can do everything perfectly all the time but every day we're moving forward to create that world and that's what I'm trying to do."
'My Sister's Keeper' opens on 26 June
Candid Cameron Diaz - Features, Films - The Independent
You may think that Cameron Diaz's latest role, playing the mother of a dying child, is a blatant Oscar bid – but she denies it. The actress tells Gill Pringle what her real motivation is for taking on such a hard-hitting part
Friday, 12 June 2009
Pressed into promotional duties for her latest film, My Sister's Keeper – in which she plays a wife and mother of three kids, including a terminally ill child – Cameron Diaz can see the inevitable questions a mile off.
As yet unwed, and childless, the 36-year-old actress smiles, turns those bright cornflower-blue eyes up to full wattage, and prepares for battle. "I think it's only normal for people to ask my views on motherhood, especially of someone my age, because it seems like the obvious thing, like 'Why haven't you done it yet?' But it doesn't bother me. It's not the cross I bear. I simply have no idea at this stage in my life. Besides, I'm still young," she says.
"I have one nephew and four nieces, I've seen three births, two vaginal, one C-section... I've been there for the dirty diapers, I've done the bottles... I know what it takes to do it. I think that I have a good sense of what it takes to be a mother and, although I'm not mother, I feel that it's the closest I can get.
"I also understand about loving very deeply and knowing that I would do anything just to save somebody that I love. No, I'm not the mother of a sick child but I can imagine those feelings.
"I also don't know what it's like to be an 18th-century pickpocket, you know what I mean?" she says, in reference to Gangs of New York. "Or to have a mother who killed herself as with In Her Shoes, and have to deal with that. But that's what us actors do," she says.
My Sister's Keeper is pure Oscar fodder – Diaz plays a mother who has a genetically engineered test-tube baby to use, essentially, for spare parts for her eldest daughter who is dying of leukaemia. Sofia Vassilieva gives a heart-wrenching performance as a sick teen whose illness is only complicated by her fighting family. Abigail Breslin, already a former Oscar nominee for Little Miss Sunshine, plays the sister whose burden it is to help keep her big sister alive.
Asking an actor if they would like an Oscar is usually like asking a dog if it would like a bone. However, in Diaz's case, her reply is unexpected: "No! Do you know what you have to do to get an Oscar? You have to talk to a lot of you people for like days and months on end. Not you, though. I'll talk to you any day!" she adds, realising that this might not be the wisest remark.
But her response is only partly in jest. The truth is that she is one of the most "papped" actresses, owing to her past relationships with Justin Timberlake, Matt Dillon, Jared Leto, John Mayer and, more recently, British model Paul Sculfor.
High-profile legal battles with US tabloid media over paparazzi photos have left her cautious: "Look, when I meet people I'm happy to say hello. I'm not in a bubble; and I don't go through the world not talking to people. I'm in the world; it's just the way I live my life. But I can't always stop and take pictures or sign autographs because everybody's got a camera these days."
The paparazzi, it seems, won't leave her alone – even suggesting she had shaved her head for a poignant scene in her latest film. "Of course I didn't shave my head! I mean, I would be like a scientific freak right now. They would have me in a lab with my scalp, trying to figure out how I grew my hair back so fast. But the paparazzi will say anything to sell their pictures, believe me," she says, playing with her wispy blonde hair, as we sit together in a Santa Monica hotel room.
One of Hollywood's most successful models-turned-actresses, by her own admission she has no desire to churn out films. She has made only 25 movies – not including her voice work in the Shrek animated series – since she first appeared 15 years ago alongside Jim Carrey in The Mask.
"But awards have never been a motivation to do what I do. I'm not doing this to be 'on top' or whatever. I'm doing this to tell stories, particularly with this one. So when I accepted this role, I wasn't thinking to myself, 'Oh people don't see me as a mother! I'm gonna play a mother and then maybe I'm gonna get these other parts...'," she says, adopting an over-the-top "lovey" voice.
"And it's not like I even view this role as some kind of stretch because it feels as if I haven't played the same character twice or even told the same story. I look at it sort of like, 'OK, I did The Mask, and then I did Last Supper, Feeling Minnesota, My Best Friend's Wedding... and then There's Something About Mary that made everybody look. But then I did Being John Malkovich, Any Given Sunday, Gangs of New York and Vanilla Sky... Oh my God! Why am I going through my career?!" she laughs, as if waking from a personal reverie. "Umm, you know, so I feel like I have done a lot of different things."
It was Diaz's demonstrated versatility which attracted My Sister's Keeper director Nick Cassavetes in the first place: "I've been a fan of Cameron for a long time and, frankly, her dramatic roles are among my favourites. And I understand that she is most often associated with comedy because she's so good at making people laugh. I mean, I wouldn't want Sacha Baron Cohen to make me cry but I think Cameron is equally capable of doing both," he says.
Submerged in her role as a mother forced to watch her family fall apart, Diaz sadly experienced her own loss in the midst of filming My Sister's Keeper. Production came to an abrupt halt last year when her 58-year-old father Emilio Diaz suddenly died of pneumonia. "I was in shock," she whispers. "My dad was a huge part of my life and I think about him every day still. He will be a part of me forever."
However, it's clear that Diaz doesn't like to be sad for too long. She has an infectious laugh and nobody could accuse her of not having a sense of humour. She sent up her former relationship with Timberlake – nine years her junior – in a sketch on US satirical show Saturday Night Live entitled "The Cougars' Den". Co-starring Alec Baldwin, she portrayed a particular lustful "cougar" known as Kiki Damore. "I like to enjoy myself," she says. "If you can't laugh at yourself, then what can you laugh about?"
Together with Leonardo DiCaprio, Diaz was one of Hollywood's first "green advocates", both driving Priuses and appearing on platforms promoting sustainable living. And, proving that it's not just lip-service, today she sips from a huge aluminum water bottle and a thermal coffee mug.
"What's wonderful right now is that there's more and more opportunities to incorporate this sustainability into your life," she says, eagerly indicating her one-and-a-half-litre water bottle. "I have 10 of these at home, and then just fill one or two with water before I leave for the day and keep them with me. I think right now is a critical time; it's time for us to learn more and I want to be part of helping people to learn more.
"I can't always be perfect but you try to balance it out; it's not a perfect world. Unfortunately, I can't transport myself to a world where we can do everything perfectly all the time but every day we're moving forward to create that world and that's what I'm trying to do."
'My Sister's Keeper' opens on 26 June
Candid Cameron Diaz - Features, Films - The Independent
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lynnashley
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I know nothing about this movie, but it looks intense..
I heard Cameron Diaz really did shave her head for this movie.
I heard Cameron Diaz really did shave her head for this movie.
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Lennie1984
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Me too, and i also get sad as i watch the trailers
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keep the starlight
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I saw this tonight, and cried like a baby, of course. I actually preferred the film's ending. I was a fan of the book and Picoult's writing, but her ending felt soapy and kind of cheap. Just my opinion.
I loved the addition of Taylor. Kate/Taylor were all kinds of sweet. And I loved, loved the music. I'm totally going to buy the soundtrack. Jeff Buckley, Priscilla Ann, and Pete Yorn? WIN.
I loved the addition of Taylor. Kate/Taylor were all kinds of sweet. And I loved, loved the music. I'm totally going to buy the soundtrack. Jeff Buckley, Priscilla Ann, and Pete Yorn? WIN.
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margravine_l
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Oh wow, production is starting that soon? I hope we get to see some pictures of filming etc That would be great!
I know right? It really is impressive! I
Joan Cusack so I was glad to see they'd worked together a few times before.
I wonder if Cameron and the cast will be promoting the film over in the UK soon? I've seen clips of them promoting it in the U.S but not here. Would be good to see some new interviews etc
That would be great!I know right? It really is impressive! I
Joan Cusack so I was glad to see they'd worked together a few times before. I wonder if Cameron and the cast will be promoting the film over in the UK soon? I've seen clips of them promoting it in the U.S but not here. Would be good to see some new interviews etc
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margravine_l
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Oh really? The premiere is the 24th? That's awesome! I can't wait to see who turns up. Hopefully we'll get some reviews to read then as well
Thanks for the interview!
Thanks for the interview!
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Parkway
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I really want to see this after seeing Cameron Diaz on some of the talk shows. Maybe I'll get the chance to read the book too.
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Lennie1984
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I so agree, waiting so patiently for this movie - you know i wasnt too sure about Jason Patric playing the father, but he seems good on the trailers
I hope it blows everyone away and i hope the premiere is huge with loads of stars attending
I hope it blows everyone away and i hope the premiere is huge with loads of stars attending
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margravine_l
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Cameron Diaz taught her 13-year-old co-star to swear.
The 'My Sister's Keeper' actress decided it was time Abigail Breslin - who plays her daughter in the new movie - knew some bad words, so decided to widen her vocabulary.
Cameron explained: "I did teach Abby how to say the f-word. I taught her how to drop the f-bomb in every way possible.
"I said, 'You're a child in an adult's world. I can't be a child for you.' When she didn't swear, I said, 'You're starting to offend me, Abby. If you don't start swearing every three words then I will fine you.'
"I even told her mother that I was teaching her to swear and she said, 'It's about time.' "
Cameron plays Sara Fitzgerald, whose daughter Kate - played by Sofia Vassilieva - has terminal cancer.
Abigail stars as Sara's other daughter Anna, who was a designer baby born to help keep Kate alive.
During the film, Anna decides she wants the right to make her own medical decisions.
Cameron's father Emilio Diaz died after developing pneumonia while she was working on the film, and she claims starring in the movie helped her deal with her grief.
She added to the Chicago Sun Times newspaper: "Being able to go back to this group of people was a blessing. Literally these girls in my new movie helped me.
"We're not living or dying. We're not happy or sad. It's all happening at the same time. Sometimes when you're at your happiest, you're also at your saddest.
"Life is bittersweet. You can be celebrating and having the best day of your life and someone is dying."
Cameron Diaz teaches Abigail Breslin salty language - Monsters and Critics
The 'My Sister's Keeper' actress decided it was time Abigail Breslin - who plays her daughter in the new movie - knew some bad words, so decided to widen her vocabulary.
Cameron explained: "I did teach Abby how to say the f-word. I taught her how to drop the f-bomb in every way possible.
"I said, 'You're a child in an adult's world. I can't be a child for you.' When she didn't swear, I said, 'You're starting to offend me, Abby. If you don't start swearing every three words then I will fine you.'
"I even told her mother that I was teaching her to swear and she said, 'It's about time.' "
Cameron plays Sara Fitzgerald, whose daughter Kate - played by Sofia Vassilieva - has terminal cancer.
Abigail stars as Sara's other daughter Anna, who was a designer baby born to help keep Kate alive.
During the film, Anna decides she wants the right to make her own medical decisions.
Cameron's father Emilio Diaz died after developing pneumonia while she was working on the film, and she claims starring in the movie helped her deal with her grief.
She added to the Chicago Sun Times newspaper: "Being able to go back to this group of people was a blessing. Literally these girls in my new movie helped me.
"We're not living or dying. We're not happy or sad. It's all happening at the same time. Sometimes when you're at your happiest, you're also at your saddest.
"Life is bittersweet. You can be celebrating and having the best day of your life and someone is dying."
Cameron Diaz teaches Abigail Breslin salty language - Monsters and Critics
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nikki009
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I can't wait to see this movie!!! It's going to be amazing!
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funky_chick
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Thank you :hug: I've been wondering when someone was going to open a thread for her :nod:
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Lennie1984
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Dont worry, mostly everyone i know and what i saw in cinema ppl were crying, tears rolling down their faces