I reckon the Venn diagram of people that insist that motion film Die Exhausting is a Christmas film and people who love telling you a tomato is a fruit is a circle.

They’re each technically proper, however come on ― it’s not just like the Bruce Willis hit is as festive as, say, basic seasonal flick The Vacation.

Besides that apparently, the film’s author and director Nancy Myers actually didn’t suppose the 2006 movie was meant to be watched round, nicely, the vacations.

Talking on the Hollywood Gold podcast, the thoughts behind the Jude Legislation, Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, and Jack Black basic admitted she “by no means ever noticed it as a vacation film ever in my life”.

“I do know it’s referred to as The Vacation as a result of they’re taking a vacation, nevertheless it may have been referred to as that if it was in the summertime,” she mentioned, seemingly forgetting the snowy, chocolate field English cottage Cameron Diaz’s character visits (or the “alone at Christmas” last-minute reasoning for each principal characters travels).

Certainly she admitted she “was slightly shocked at how a lot Christmas was in it” after re-watching the movie not too long ago.

“I by no means thought it will be, , a film that you just watched in the course of the holidays,” she continued, sharing she “didn’t consider it that method”.

“I simply actually needed to inform the story about these folks… I set it at Christmas as a result of that may be lonely,” she revealed.

“And the vacations seem to be a very good time to take care of these points… so it was that, not, ‘Hey, I feel I’ll make a festive vacation film.’ By no means.”

Hats off to a Refinery29 author who referred to as it in 2020. “It’s not a Christmas film, it’s a vacation film,” they wrote on the time.

You actually and actually may have fooled me.