Caprice Bourret was told "she couldn't act" because she's a model.
The 53-year-old beauty got to film her first movie last year, her self-produced festive flick 'A European Christmas', and she has revealed she had always dreamed of becoming an actress, but was told she wouldn't make it because of her modelling career.
She told new! magazine: "I've always wanted to act, but nobody would give me a shot, they were like, 'She's a model, she can't act!'
"So I thought, 'Well, I'll do it myself then!'
"I did my first movie last year, which was set in Ibiza, but it was always a dream of mine to do a Christmas movie."
The film was shot in Zlatibor in Serbia and tells the tale of film director Ivy Allen (Caprice) who is told she will be let go if she doesn't have another blockbuster hit on her hands.
The budget was so tight, they couldn't afford fake snow, but fortunately, the white stuff paid a visit during filming.
She said: "I absolutely fell in love with Zlatibor. It's such a gorgeous place. We flew out in January last year and the entire village kept their Christmas decorations up for us.
"With Christmas movies, you have to have snow but with my budget I couldn't afford to make it. I don't know what it was, but something magical happened; they only had three days of snow in Zlatibor the entire season and that's when we were filming.
We moved everything around in the schedule and shot all our outside scenes during those three days. It was crazy - our very own Christmas miracle."
Caprice performed all her own stunts for the Amazon Prime movie and thought the team were joking when they said she would have to ski badly and fall into a tree.
She recalled: "I had to pretend that I couldn't ski down this mountain and crash into a tree. And I only had one take to do it, which is quite tricky to do. I said, 'Excuse me? You want me, in one take, to ski off-piste down this mountain and figure out how I'm going to bump into the tree and fall down?' I thought they were joking. I'm a good skier but even I didn't think I could make it work.
"Luckily, I managed to do it. I did hit the tree, luckily not too hard, and then I fell backwards.
But what I didn't know, when I fell, was that all the snow from the branches would come piling down on to me! I had mascara everywhere, I had eyeliner everywhere and my face froze!
Of course, the whole crew were laughing uncontrollably. They left it all in there. It wasn't part of the script but turned out to be this hilarious - and authentic - moment."
