Tall, blonde, beautiful — what could possibly go wrong? If you’re Cameron Diaz disfigured feet, illiteracy and bad afro hair are just the beginning of what’s she suffered on film. But it’s all in a day’s work, as the star of Richard Kelly’s The Box told Drew Turney.

The breakout work of the genre, 1980’s Airplane/Flying High, was the mother lode of parody comedies, with both visual and scripting jokes flying at a pace you could hardly keep pace with.

I’m not a survivalist, although I am very frightened about what’s going on about in the world these days. But I’m not a weapons guy and I probably never would’ve had the strength or ability or bravado to be a fireman or a police officer. A lot of my roles are like that but I’m a lover not a fighter.