Jude Law just ruined a million holiday dreams.

During an interview with BBC Radio on Sunday, November 24, the actor revealed a behind-the-scenes secret about his beloved 2006 Christmas film, The holiday, starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet.

Law, who plays Diaz’s love interest and Winslet’s brother in the beloved rom-com, is thrilled that the film has become a holiday classic. “I just think it’s glorious, honestly,” he shares in the interview.

However, things change when one of the hosts asks, “Do you think we can Airbnb that house?” referring to the charming English country home of Winslet’s character, Iris.

“That house doesn’t exist,” Law answers. He is faced with a barrage of sighs and exclamations from the presenters. “Oooh, yeah,” he says.

One of the interviewers complains, “That’s my dream house!” sharing a common feeling among fans of the film, many of whom have long hoped for a day of vacation in the house.

Law then reveals the reason behind the heartbreaking piece of movie magic.

“So the director is a bit of a perfectionist,” he says of rom-com mastermind Nancy Meyers. “She traveled all over the area and couldn’t quite find the chocolate house she was looking for,” he says. “So she just rented a field, drew it and had someone build it.”

And because it was built as a facade for film shoots, the interiors that viewers have admired for so long never existed inside.

“So the funny thing is, when you look at it… We were shooting here in the winter. And every time I went through that door, we shot a shot, and about three months later we shot the interiors in LA, “The law reveals.

He receives further outrage from his interviewers, who take turns chiding him: ‘Oh no, please stop! We don’t want to hear it anymore! You’re ruining it! We can’t bear it.’

“Just bursting the bubble. Sorry!” says Law, who doesn’t look very remorseful in the clip.

News that the fictional house, known in the film as Rosehill Cottage, is not a real place has emerged before, especially amid the rise of the travel trend known as ‘set-jetting’, in which tourists travel to real plan places. where their favorite movies and TV shows were filmed.

However, the house that reportedly inspired it, Honeysuckle Cottage, is real. As recently as 2022, the property was listed on Airbnb as a vacation rental, but it appears to have since been removed from the platform.

PEOPLE previously reported that it was for sale in 2018 for $821,000. However, according to the previous listing, the three-bedroom, one-bathroom property in Surrey appears to have sold for $650,000.