Cameron Diaz couldn’t take Tom Cruise seriously when they were shooting new movie Knight and Day.

The pair play June Havens and Roy Miller in the action comedy. Roy is a secret agent, and June becomes caught up in his life after he realises he isn’t supposed to make it through his latest mission.

Cameron loved working with Tom, but found shooting action sequences hard. Although the scenes were supposed to be serious she couldn’t help giggling as she found them so surreal.

“Every day we would come to work and laugh consistently – you know that belly laugh. I mean, I do tend to laugh a lot but when you’re driving a car and you look out the window and there is Tom Cruise on the hood with a gun, that’s pretty funny,” she said. “It was funny for me anyway.”

Cameron has previously praised Tom’s dedication to shooting stunts, explaining he inspired her. She has vowed to be more like him, and take part in dangerous scenes even if they scare her.

“I watched him jumping on top of cars and hanging on to the roof as I’m screaming behind the wheel and all I can think is, ‘How does he do that? I want to do that! I want to fly through the air. I want to fight. Give me some action scenes!” she explained.

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Thanks to her work in the Shrek films Diaz has a nice steady income, but she also gets big bucks to appear in romantic films like the action comedy Knight and Day, costarring Tom Cruise. Diaz also stars with ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake as a foul-mouthed educator in the film Bad Teacher.

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Talk about rivalries!

The Yankees may have been in Los Angeles to play the Dodgers, but the real action happened off the field for a pro slugger and a hot Hollywood actress.

Alex Rodriguez and Cameron Diaz made no attempt at hiding their relationship on Friday night when the couple dined at Soho House with friends, including his manager Guy Oseary, who also happens to be manager and longtime business partner of Madonna, A-Rod’s ex.

“A-Rod and Cameron were very cute and affectionate,” says an eyewitness. “They were cuddling and he had his arm around her. You could tell they really like each other.”

The Yankee third baseman and the Material Mom dated back in 2008. One can’t help but wonder what Madge would say about A-Rod’s new girlfriend hanging out with Oseary, her right-hand man.

This isn’t the first time Diaz and Oseary’s paths have crossed, however. In 2000, Oseary made a cameo in her hit flick Charlie’s Angels.

Joining the late-night dinner were Eva Longoria Parker and two gal-pals.

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Stumped as to what could cause Cameron Diaz to turn bright red? Here’s a hint: She says it’s the key to “staying young.”

But aside from that little bit of info, Diaz and her Knight and Day costar, Tom Cruise, talk about how they’re friends for life, after-hours sightseeing in Austria and why little Suri Cruise loves Cameron:

Turns out, the budding fashionista had her sights set on Diaz’s wardrobe. “She says to me, ‘I like your dress,’” Cameron tells E! movie guy Ben Lyons. “Then she says, ‘I want your dress…’”

We can’t imagine a higher compliment on one’s fashion sense.

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SEVILLE, Spain — Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz were serious about getting the word out about what they do in their movie “Knight and Day.” Instead of just interviews in front of a movie poster in the U.S., the movie studio invited a small group to experience some of the places where the film’s stunts were shot.

Last week I was the guest of 20th Century Fox, ascending some of the rooftops of Salzburg, Austria, where Cruise jumps from building to building. Then, we jetted off to Seville to be part of a high-speed car chase with Cameron Diaz and some of the best stunt drivers in the world.

Q: Why would you both put yourself in such danger when there are perfectly good stunt people available?

Tom Cruise: We just wanted to entertain the audience. You just had to give it your all to get those shots. You really had to be in it full tilt.

Q: Is there a moment when you’re doing the stunts that you ask yourself, “What am I doing?”

TC: Never, but you do feel very much in present time. Everything comes into focus.

Cameron Diaz: It’s so addictive because there are only a few things in life that really bring you into a moment like that, especially in our society. You learn to trust yourself. You learn to trust the people that you’re working with.

TC: And I felt so confident with her. We had loaded guns full of flash blanks, but as she’s going around shooting them, these flash blanks are coming past me, I really just let go and trusted how capable she is.

Q: What’s the feeling afterwards? Do you feel like fainting or is it exhilarating?

TC: No, we were (fist bumps with Diaz), “We did it.”

CD: All day long on set we look at each other and say, “Are you kidding me … look at where we are, look at what we’re doing.” We both have the appreciation and gratitude for what we do every day getting to make movies like this.

Q: Are you taking fewer risks now that you’re a married man with a young child? Does your wife, Katie (Holmes), have veto power in the dangerous things that you do?

TC: Kate is very adventurous. She knows who I am. And it’s not a matter of risk. I’m very calculated. It’s part of who I am and I want my kids to have that kind of spirit. When I was a kid, I would jump on a motorcycle before I really knew how to ride it and do things like that. Now, you just kind of learn from professionals and take your time. You build your skill level and your competency, and that’s the fun of it. I’m always learning a new skill.

Q: This movie will remind people of (Tom’s) “Mission Impossible” or even (Cameron’s) “Charlie’s Angels.” How do you compare this with those?

CD: It was something that we were walking the line with constantly. We wanted it to be funny but we didn’t want it to be slapstick. There were lots of opportunities for more comedy in the movie but rather than going overboard, we kept a balanced tone so you felt these people really were in peril.

TC: And “Mission Impossible” movies are very much about their mission. This is more about the characters. It’s a two hander in the classy vein of a “North by Northwest.” He’s from his world and she’s from her world. The worlds intersect into action and international intrigue.

Q: Who would’ve thought that Tom’s Les Grossman character from “Tropic Thunder” would have taken off the way that he has? From that first cameo, then the MTV movie awards a couple of weeks ago and now a full feature movie that’ll be made about him.

CD: It’s so great because Tom is the nicest man who couldn’t be more communicative and thoughtful about the words that he says to the people that he’s working with. Les is the opposite. He’s like a machete just hacking through people.

Q: Do studio executives ask if the character is based on them?

CD: Oh, they know who they are.

TC: No, everyone goes, “Is he me?… Please say he’s me.”

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Roy Miller is, in his own words, good at what he does.

He isn’t bragging. If anything, the secret agent played by Tom Cruise in the utterly delightful action film/rom-com “Knight and Day” is probably selling himself short. A master of hand-to-hand combat who can put a bullet exactly where he wants it — shooting someone in the leg to immobilize him while avoiding the femoral artery so as not to kill him — he’s also unfailingly polite when, on the rare occasion, he goes too far.

“Sorry,” he tells an innocent bystander he has just decked, with the lightning-quick reflexes of a ninja. “I thought you were making a move.”

It’s no wonder June Havens (Cameron Diaz) falls for him when they meet on her flight from Wichita to Boston. He’s cute, charming, smart, funny and almost freakishly competent. Too bad that trouble, in the form of gun-toting government agents and an arms dealer’s ruthless henchmen, are following him — and now her — all over the globe as Roy tries to protect a nebbishy inventor (Paul Dano), and keep his top-secret invention out of the wrong hands.

But exactly whose are the wrong hands?

According to the feds who are chasing him (led by Peter Sarsgaard and Viola Davis), it’s Roy who’s the bad guy: an unstable, untrustworthy rogue agent. While Cruise was born to play the part — a modern-day MacGyver who, by his own admission, has been trained to dismantle a bomb in the dark “with nothing but a safety pin and some Junior Mints” — it also seems just possible that the guy might be ever so slightly deranged. The actor’s couch-jumping, Scientology-pumping past actually helps here, add a layer of unpredictability to a character who, in almost every other aspect, is a kind of Superman.

Forget Roy’s martial arts expertise. Nobody, particularly at 47, should have abs that look that good when he takes his shirt off (which is often).

But this isn’t just “The Tom Cruise Show.” As an ordinary woman inadvertently caught up in a world of jet-setting espionage, Diaz makes a delicious comedic and romantic foil to Cruise’s Roy. Yes, at first she’s a little freaked out by the number of people who are dropping like flies all around him — Roy’s aim is deadly when he wants it to be — but she soon shows herself to be a capable partner. “You’ve got skills, June,” Roy tells her, admiringly, after she shoots out the tires of a pursuing car.

Compare her performance to that of Katherine Heigl’s ditz in the similarly themed “Killers.” Diaz is no damsel in distress here. And her gumption lends fizz to an already effervescent production.

It helps that the script by Patrick O’Neill is as lively as the action. Roy’s schmoozing patter is a mix of cheesy small talk and spy-movie cliches: “Open the door, June,” he shouts, while clinging to the windshield of the speeding car she’s driving. “Beautiful dress, by the way,” he adds.

Roy’s unflappability is a thing of wonder, but it’s also the source of much of the film’s humor. “Knight and Day,” you see, isn’t just another “romaction” hybrid. It’s both straight-faced spy film and sly spy spoof. That’s a difficult balancing act, but director James Mangold (“3:10 to Yuma”) gets it exactly right. He lets us in on the joke, even as he lets us enjoy every thrill-packed minute of the ride.

Review by: Michael O’Sullivan @ washingtonpost.com


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Although we only get a glimpse of Cameron in a couple of scenes, I’ve added the below movie trailer of ‘The Green Hornet’ to the video archive section. This looks like a blockbuster to me!