THE MAKING OF THE PERFECT ENGLISH COUNTRY COTTAGE
THE GUEST HOUSE MOVIE BATHROOM SCENE MOVIE
Here’s a screenshot from the movie in which we can spot the White Horse Tavern on the left as Amanda arrives into town in a black sedan: James Church and down the road from the 16th century White Horse Tavern.” “Once we found the perfect site, production (for Iris’s house) began just up the hill from St. “We came upon Shere in Surrey (which is in the south of England) almost by chance,” says Jon Hutman, production designer. The village’s location and charms have lured many filming productions to shoot there, among those were Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reasons (2004), and The Wedding Date (2005). So filming there made much financial and geographical sense. Not only is Shere a beautiful, quintessential English country village, it is also just about an hour away from London, where the film cast and crew were based. In the Director’s Commentary section of The Holiday DVD, Nancy Meyers shared the reason why she decided to use Shere as the film location for The Holiday. Shere is so charming and scenic, it is easily the most photographed Surrey town of all. Home for Iris is a lovely English cottage in Shere, a pretty, idylic village with a population of under 4,000 in the Guildford district of Surrey, south-west of London. SHERE: THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED TOWN IN SURREY, ENGLAND Iris is devastated and comes home with a broken heart. At an office Christmas party, Iris finds out that Jasper is engaged to another colleague. She’s a smart, beautiful and compassionate young woman who, unfortunately, has been forever in (unrequited) love with her colleague Jasper Bloom ( Rufus Sewell). To give you a bit of background (but not to give too much away if you haven’t seen the movie), Iris (played by the wonderful and radiant Kate Winslet) is a wedding column writer for The Daily Telegraph, a London newspaper. Now that we’ve had a chance to visit Amanda’s spacious contemporary California house, let’s pop in on Iris’s idylic English country world.
Here’s a screenshot from the movie as the gate opens to reveal the exterior of Amanda’s California Tuscan-style home: The two women impulsively swap houses for a holiday away from home.Īmanda’s Los Angeles house, it turns out, is a “slightly” bigger exchange than Iris’s English cottage. By chance, she comes across an ad for Iris’s cottage on. She recently broke up with her unfaithful boyfriend and is looking to escape from her life in L.A. Amanda’s sprawling California house is modern, sophisticated, and sports a clean, neutral palette.Īmanda Woods, portrayed by the very funny and charming Cameron Diaz, owns a Los Angeles company that produces movie trailers. Iris’s English cottage is small, cozy and warm with lots of colors and mismatched furniture. The inside of their worlds are just as different. Iris’s hometown is old, snow-covered, and dotted with bare trees.
On the outside, Amanda’s Los Angeles world is contemporary, green and lush. Nancy Meyers purposely wanted to show the two locations as being polar opposite of each other.
In between, the production set up camp in England to shoot for a month. Filming for The Holiday began and ended in the Los Angeles region.
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