Cameron Diaz Saves the World
While Cameron Diaz’s environmental passions were less probed in the recent issue of Vogue, the actress certainly didn’t hold back for this month’s feature in Marie Claire. The magazine not only got some great quotes out of Diaz on her eco-cred, but also tagged along for some filming of her new low-budget documentary on "our relationship to the planet". From the article,
"Inspired by the annual TED conference that she’s attended—a kind of smarty-pants consortium dedicated to the spread of innovative ideas put forth by speakers like Bono, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, and Samantha Power—Diaz felt the urge to start a far-reaching conversation about the environment. ‘I was like, I’m going to get a camera, and I’m going to mobile-home it across the country, and I’m just going to find out what people are thinking. What would it take for the common person to become engaged?’—in the catastrophe that is the state of our natural resources. Most of all, she wants to help raise consciousness. "There’s a lot of great minds out there who are thinking about this,’ she says, who are coming up with solutions. Not to crash anybody’s party, but to actually make the party better.’ She laughs. ‘Really, that’s what it’s about—that’s my participation in it."
There aren’t too many celebrities that take it upon themselves to get out there and get people talking about the environment. Diaz is truly engaged in getting the issues front and center — though she admits it can be a bit of a depressing challenge.
Meanwhile, Leonardo DiCaprio wants Cameron Diaz to be involved in the Green documentary project he’s working on. The Titanic actor — who is currently dating Israeli model Bar Refaeli — and Diaz sent the rumor mill into overdrive last month after they were spotted in an intimate huddle having drinks in LA. But the the pair had only hooked up to discuss their mutual interest in all things Green.
"Leo and Cameron are passionate about the environment," says a source close to DiCaprio. "They have so much in common, and Cameron is keen to involve Leo in a Green documentary project that she is working on."
To view five minutes of Cameron’s documentary, Click here!