Actor Kate Walsh, or Addison to fans of Greys Anatomy and Private Practice, isnt the inspiration for The Sweetest Thing. A remark she made on the movies DVD extras led people to believe her adventures with screenwriter Nancy Pimental inspired it. But thats not true.

A few years after playing the title character in Theres Something About Mary, Cameron Diaz signed on for The Sweetest Thing. The 2002 film follows her character, Christina Walters, as she meets a guy named Peter (Thomas Jane) who could be the one. She sets about tracking him down.

Soon she finds herself on a road trip with her best friend Courtney (Christina Applegate) to what they believe is the wedding of Peters brother, Roger (Jason Bateman).Finding Christinas potential soulmate isnt the only thing she and Courtney are doing. At the time they are on their road trip, theyre trying to encourage their friend Jane (Selma Blair) to start dating again after a breakup.

The Sweetest Thing opened to less than stellar reviews. But in the years since its developed cult status. Its considered by some to be the precursor to women-focused films such as Bridesmaids and Bad Moms.

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Pimental told Entertainment Weekly in 2018 how it came to be general knowledge that her friendship with Walsh served a the inspiration for The Sweetest Thing.

A camera crew came to her house to film a feature for the DVD. She chose a very tongue-in-cheek and ironic video about a day in the life of a bigshot screenwriter. Pimental called all of her actor friends over to help, including Walsh.

Kate had said in this thing that we were best friends and the movie was based on our friendship, Pimental said, noting they improvised everything.

Its so funny how people just said, Oh, well the part that Kate said must be true, she added. Now she and Walsh just laugh about it.

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Pimental set the record straight on the true inspiration. Before she wrote the movie shed been working at a restaurant with a tight-knit group of women.

We just ran in this pack where we were these waitresses, and there was always these write-ups about us in magazines, because the place was really popular and a lot of Saudi princes would go there, she said.

Pimental continued, saying they were owning their womanhood.

There was this group of girls and we were running around town and partying at these different clubs and just owning our womanhood, I guess, she said.

And thats where the inspiration for The Sweetest Thing came in.

I just thought, God, theres not an example of this sort of girl posse where were more like guys. Yeah, we decide if we want to give you a fake number or not kind of thing. There wasnt this empowerment, I guess, or this example of it, she said before adding, Thats really how it started.

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