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Justin Timberlake, Cameron Diaz Interview, Bad Teacher

Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) is a teacher who just doesn’t give an F. She’s foul-mouthed, ruthless, and wildly inappropriate. She drinks, she gets high, and she can’t wait to marry her meal ticket and walk away from her day job teaching middle school. When she’s dumped by her fiancé, she sets her plan in motion to win over a rich, handsome substitute (Justin Timberlake) – competing for his affections with an overly energetic colleague, Amy (Lucy Punch) – but finds herself fighting off the advances of an irreverent gym teacher (Jason Segel). Elizabeth’s outrageous schemes and their wild consequences will shock her students, her co-workers, and even herself.

MoviesOnline sat down with Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Jason Segel, Lucy Punch, Phyllis Smith and director Jake Kasdan to talk about their new movie at a press conference in Los Angeles. They told us what it was like to be part of such a terrific ensemble cast, how fun it was to play fully drawn characters that were so over-the-top outrageous, and why having a woman in the lead role pushing the envelope made the script insanely funny. They also shared their most memorable teacher moments and explained why finding a sugar daddy during an economic downturn is a smart financial strategy that even Susie Orman would approve of.

Q: Cameron, I love how your character was blatantly motivated to get a boob job. Was it fun to have the wrong self-image values?

CAMERON: Completely. Obviously, if I thought that I could get somewhere with having bigger boobies, I would have done it by now. But, for her, it’s everything. It’s called hard economic times. Have you ever heard of this? You can’t find a millionaire the way you could three, four years ago before the Crash. So it’s a lot of work for her now. It’s an investment. Susie Orman would have been like “Girl, 5-Year Plan.” So yeah, she’s working hard for those. She knows that to get what you want you have to have a goal and her goal is to invest in her business and get a pair of tits.

Q: It was blatantly to find a sugar daddy too. That’s not right either.

CAMERON: But I’m not judging, clearly. I’m not judging. But the thing about it is that if we really believed this was the right thing to do, we wouldn’t be making fun of it. Right? So it was really fun to make fun of it because especially living in this town, we all know what it’s like to come up against people who have their priorities a little screwed up and focus on the wrong things. 14-year-old boys, I love it! So it was really fun to be able to go to work every day and have a team of people all on the same wagon going towards complete and utter distaste and throwing everything out the window. It’s fantastic. We had a lot of fun doing that.

Scarlett Johansson & Justin Timberlake are - Celebitchy

Soon after Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds split up, and a few months before Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel split, there was a rumor going around the tabloids that Scarlett and Justin were hooking up on the downlow. This was back in January, although Scar and JT were rumored to be in some kind of casual hookup situation back in 2007, before she got with Ryan and before JT got with Biel. While I think Scarlett could do better, she doesn’t listen to me, and JT might still be good for the occasional night out. According to Page Six

Scarlett Johansson didn’t seem to be mourning her split with Sean Penn during a late night out with Justin Timberlake. The pair headed to Kenmare and partied until 3:30 a.m. yesterday along with Bungalow 8 nightlife queen Amy Sacco and a few other friends.