Cameron Diaz pays tribute to her father
Cameron Diaz paid tribute to her late father, Emilio, at a special screening of her star-making turn in There’s Something About Mary, pointing out a cameo by her dad in the 1998 film.
She said that her father appeared in the movie for two seconds. The 36 year-old actress told this to the audience while introducing the film at the Target Presents AFI Night at the Movies event at Hollywood’s ArcLight Cinemas.
“My father just passed away recently,” she explained, recalling Emilio Diaz’s death from pneumonia in April. “He’s the dude when Ben Stiller is leaving the jail and all the guys run afterwards – my dad has the long black-silver hair down to here who’s hamming it up in the front.”
After this she playfully imitated her father’s performance with a zesty “Yeeeeaaah!” that prompted applause from the crowd. “That’s my dad, so would you all just say hi to him, because it’s one of the few moments that we have of him immortalized on film.”
Diaz left the theater before her father’s on-screen appearance, but the audience members spotted the scene that she emphasized earlier about.
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