If you’ve seen Lost In Translation, you’ll not only understand this story, you’ll enjoy it too. For those of you who haven’t seen the film, these are the basics you need to know: Scarlett Johansson’s character (based on Sofia Coppola) has traveled to Japan with her husband, played by Giovanni Ribisi (based on Sofia’s then-husband Spike Jonze). In the movie, the husband runs into an actress he worked with, played by Anna Faris. Faris’ character is ditzy, a little crazy and all over the husband character. Faris did such an uncanny impression of Cameron Diaz, it’s not even funny. Jonze and Diaz had worked together on Being John Malkovich, and many people simply thought, “Wow, Sofia hates Camy Diaz.” It was almost like Sofia Coppola – who wrote and directed Lost In Translation – told Anna Faris, “Do an impression of Cameron”. I should say that the blonde actress character comes across as an a—hole. Faris doesn’t play her as vindictive or villainous, but the character seems self-absorbed, too cutesy and annoying.

After that, there were stories over the years that Cameron and Sofia didn’t get along. There was said to be something like a Cold War between them, no “shots fired” per se, but there was resentment on Cameron’s part. Well now Radar claims that Sofia and Cameron are close to burying the hatchet:

Lost in Translation was released more than ten years ago, but the film is still having an effect on Hollywood — specifically, on Cameron Diaz. At the time, Anna Faris‘ ditzy blonde character in director Sofia Coppola‘s film was widely interpreted as being based on Diaz, as a kind of retaliation for her alleged flirtation with Coppola’s husband, Spike Jonze. It’s only now, RadarOnline.com has learned, that Diaz has forgiven her former friend Coppola for the supposed slight!

“Sofia and Cameron have had an incredibly difficult relationship since 1999, the year Sofia married Spike,” a source close to Diaz says. “It only got worse when the film came out and it became pretty well-known that part of the movie was based on their real-life feud.”

In the movie, Faris plays a dumb blonde actress who flirts with the husband of the intellectual lead character, portrayed by Scarlett Johansson and based on Coppola herself.

Coppola has insisted that Diaz wasn’t her muse, telling the Daily Beast ”The actress was based on a bunch of people, just that type. I could probably name eight people that she was based on, just that bubbly, extroverted blonde that you see on talk shows…It wasn’t a slight at anyone in particular.”

But it still made things tense between her and Diaz, says the source — until now.

“There has been a thaw in the relationship between Sofia and Cameron in recent months,” the insider says. “They had drinks this summer and cleared the air, possibly even paving the way for a future collaboration.”

Oddly enough, the source says that it was the pair’s mutual friend, Kirsten Dunst, who got them talking again. Says the source, Dunst, who starred in Coppola’s Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette, “felt that after all these years, it was time they buried the hatchet.”

Probably helping the situation, Coppola has since split with Jonze and is happily married to rock star Thomas Mars of Phoenix.

But despite her truce with Coppola, for Diaz, the scene still seems to sting, according to the source.

“Cameron still refuses to talk to Anna,” the insider says. “And she has never publicly addressed the movie scenes in question. It’s an off-limits topic.”

[From Radar]

Is it true that Cameron has never spoken about it? Probably – I can’t find anything. But Faris has had to answer questions about it in several interviews, and Faris always denies that her performance is in any way mocking Cameron. If Camy and Sofia are burying the hatchet, then good for them. But I kind of doubt it. I have my doubts whether Sofia even cares if Cameron is mad at her. She probably enjoys the fact that she got under Cameron’s skin so much, especially if Cameron really did have a close relationship with Spike Jonze.

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