SUBMITTED BY Fred Hill
December 11, 2006 — Jack Black sat down with MoviesOnline to talk about his recent role in The Holiday that hit theaters on December 8th. The interview is in typical Jack Black fashion with a humorous overtone.
MoviesOnline recently caught up with Jack Black at the Los Angeles Press Day for his new movie, "The Holiday," written and directed by Nancy Meyers. Black plays Miles, a surprisingly cool guy and film composer with an enthusiasm for movies and music. After catching his girlfriend two-timing him, he becomes romantically involved with Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) who is renting his friends home over the Christmas holidays.
Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz), the owner of a prospering advertising firm that creates movie trailers, lives in Southern California and wants to get out of town for the holidays. She stumbles across an internet site that specializes in home exchanges and finds a charming cottage in the English countryside that turns out to be the perfect antidote to her troubles.
Simpkins (Winslet), the owner of the cottage, writes the popular wedding column for London's Daily Telegraph. Though Iris and Amanda live 6,000 miles apart, they are in exactly the same place. Just before Christmas, Iris and Amanda decide to take a needed break from the men in their lives (played by Edward Burns and Rufus Sewell) and on impulse, they crisscross continents and move into each other's homes for two weeks.
Iris lands in Los Angeles on a spectacularly clear day warmed by the gusts of the seasonal Santa Ana winds. Not long after she arrives at Amanda's Brentwood home, she is befriended by next door neighbor Arthur (Eli Wallach), a noted screenwriter from Hollywood's Golden Era, and Miles (Black), a film composer who works with Amanda's ex-boyfriend.
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