Cameron Michelle Diaz is an American actress and former model. She became famous during the 1990s with roles in the movies The Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding, and There's Something About Mary. Other high profile movie credits include the two Charlie's Angels movies and voicing the character Princess Fiona for the Shrek series. Cameron Diaz, a gorgeous Hollywood actress with a reputation for being a great sport when it comes to doing physical comedy. "Bad Teacher" is exactly the one joke movie that you probably expect it to be, but there are enough variations and shadings of that one joke to sustain its brief running time just barely. Cameron Diaz plays a bad teacher. She secretly sips airline size booze bottles during class, doesn't bother to learn her students' names and figures that showing them movies about education like "Stand and Deliver" and "Dangerous Minds" is just as good as educating them herself. Because you see, she's not teaching English at a suburban Chicago middle school for the deeply rewarding experience of shaping young minds. She just needs enough cash for a boob job, which she thinks will help her land a rich husband. In "Bad Teacher," Diaz plays a self absorbed middle school teacher killing time until she finds herself a rich husband. Diaz's real life ex boyfriend Justin Timberlake plays Scott, the quirky substitute teacher with family money on whom Elizabeth preys. Lucy Punch plays Amy, her perky nemesis, a fellow teacher who catches the eye of Timberlake's character, while Phyllis Smith portrays Lynn, a shy co worker eager to be Elizabeth's friend and Jason Segel plays Russell, the gym teacher who sees Elizabeth the gold digger for who she is but still wants to date her.
"I was reading the script and 30 pages in, I was like: 'I can't do this. This woman is so horrible, there is no way to redeem her,'" Diaz recalled. "And I was going on the assumption it was like every other Hollywood script. You do horrible things for the first half of the movie and then you spend the second half of the movie trying to apologize for it and make her a good person everybody likes. Nope. Got to the end and it was like she's still a bitch and she doesn't apologize for nothing and I was like, 'I have to play her.' She really was just so much fun to play. I really wanted her to be blunt. I didn't want any charm or charisma or maybe a woman trying not to hurt somebody's feelings. I wanted her to be like an unmovable rock."
Asked about an awkward, but hilarious sex scene Diaz has with Timberlake, in which both of their characters are fully clothed, Diaz joked: "Our objective was to create the least sexy sex scene ever put on film to show the total lack of chemistry between these two people. And I think we succeeded." Despite the fact they broke up in 2006, Diaz said she and Timberlake remain friends and share a similar sense of humor. of course, there's Justin Timberlake, Diaz's real life ex boyfriend. He plays a proper and preppy substitute who comes from old money but teaches because he truly believes in all that stuff about the children being our future. He may not get a chance to let loose with the kind of charisma he's shown on "Saturday Night Live" or in movies like "The Social Network," but it's always a pleasure seeing him toy with his pop star image.
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