Three years after the success of the film “Anything Can Happen,” filmmaker Nancy Meyers returned in full force with “The Holiday,” a delicious romantic comedy with a prestigious cast including Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black. In this feature film that has become a holiday must-see, we follow Amanda Woods, an American producer living in Los Angeles, and Iris Simpkins, a British columnist living in Surrey. The first has just broken up with her boyfriend Ethan, who blamed him for his lack of affection after cheating on him, while the second is still madly in love with her ex Jasper Bloom despite him cheating on her. Since they want to spend the end of the year holidays as far away from home as possible, they get to know each other via a house exchange platform on the Internet and then decide to spend their holidays at each other's house for two weeks. Amanda finds herself in a cottage in the English countryside, while Iris has settled in a dream villa in Hollywood. If the two young women thought they would have a peaceful vacation away from the male sex, they were wrong, because Iris will meet Miles, film music composer, and Amanda will meet Graham, Iris's attractive brother and father of two daughters. Sophie and Olivia. But what happened to the actresses who played Jude Law's daughters?
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Miffy Englefield, Sophie's interpreter, became a mother at just 21 years old
Miffy Englefield, who was only six years old at the time of filming, was living with her father in England when filming began. The actress explained a few years ago that her family had just found accommodation “about a month” after auditioning for the role of Sophie Simpkins. “We had just been accommodated. I think it was about a month after our audition before we were moved into permanent housing. We were still getting out of a lot of problems, like debt and so on. So yeah, it was a very unusual time for us to go to auditions with these very eloquent characters, and then we came home and experienced something like that,” she told Vulture. The now 24-year-old actress lives in the county of West Sussex in southeast England and became the happy mother of a little girl in spring 2020. “Frances Rosanna Lee Englefield was born by cesarean section. She weighs 3.17 kg. We greeted her with many tears, joy and more love than can be described. Welcome to our world, my dear Frankie,” we read in the caption of a photo taken with her newborn. Since “The Holiday,” Miffy Englefield has only appeared in the short film “Beautiful Enough” and in two television series, “Casualty” and “The Whistleblowers.” In an Instagram story, the young woman explained that she had difficulty getting roles because of her various tattoos and numerous piercings. “As I grew up, I realized that casting directors weren't looking for people like me for the roles they cast,” she lamented a few years ago. “While this type of body modification is no longer uncommon today, I would like the opportunity to shake things up and discuss it with directors and screenwriters who share my ideas.”
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What happened to Emma Pritchard, Olivia's interpreter in The Holiday?
Unlike her fictional sister, Emma Pritchard had no intention of continuing her acting career afterward The holidays. “Their family life took a slightly different turn. I continued acting after the film, but it was never a career choice for Emma. Originally it was her sister who auditioned, but Emma somehow caught the casting director's attention. “We both took very different paths and we never really spoke after that,” Miffy Englefield told Vulture. “She and her family aren’t really on social media because they didn’t want to be in the spotlight. I can't find her anywhere.” Since The Holiday, Emma Pritchard has not appeared in any other film or television production.
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