Cameron Diaz sparks TikTok trend with sound bite from decade-old interview
Cameron Diaz boasted about her connection to the Philippines in the viral TikTok trend
Cameron Diaz has made it to the headlines for some hilarious reasons.
A clip from the actress’ nearly a decade-old interview surfaced on the internet, which featured Diaz boasting about her connection to the Philippines, and has become a viral sound bite on TikTok.
Speaking to a Filipino journalist while promoting her film, The Other Woman, alongside co-stars Kate Upton and Leslie Mann in the South Asian country in 2014, the Bad Teacher star revealed how she "grew up with a lot of Filipinos," despite not having been in the country before.
"I haven’t been to the Philippines, but I grew up with a lot of Filipinos," Diaz, who is half Cuban, said in a futile attempt at a Filipino accent. "My best friend who I grew up next door to, her mother was from the Philippines. Lumpia, adobo, I ate it every single day. . . . Rice, all the time, her mom made the best rice."
TikTik content creators are drawing on the awkward interaction and using it as a sound bite in different whimsical contexts.
A girl named Shana Mafnas, who resides in Hawaii, used it with a cheeky caption, reading: "Trying to convince my family in the Philippines that I’m in touch with that side even though I wasn’t raised in PI."
"About the extent of my Filipino knowledge too," quipped a user under the video.
"Me when someone tries to guess what asian i am and they say filipino," wrote TikTok creator Tina.
