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Cameron Diaz found a good reason to return to acting after a decade

Cameron Diaz found a good reason to return to acting after a decade
January 17, 2025

(CNN) โ€” Cameron Diaz is, quite literally, โ€œBack In Action.โ€

Thatโ€™s the title of her new Netflix film with Jamie Foxx, her first in ten years.

During a recent appearance on โ€œThe Graham Norton Show,โ€ Diaz and said Foxx is the reason she returned to Hollywood.

โ€œI had 10 years of not paying attention to anything,โ€ she said. โ€œNot accepting any advances and then I got this script and thought that maybe it was time.โ€

She had high praise for her costar.

โ€œIf I was going to leave my family for 10 hours a day, I wanted to do it with the most talented man in the entertainment business,โ€ Diaz said.

The pair are old friends, having costarred together in โ€œAny Given Sundayโ€ in 1999 and โ€œAnnieโ€ in 2014.

Diaz, who began her career as a model and starred in multiple hit movies like โ€œThereโ€™s Something About Mary,โ€ hasnโ€™t been twiddling her thumbs.

In addition to being a wife and mother (she and husband, musician Benji Madden share two children), she is also a successful author and businesswoman.

โ€œI loved those 10 years for me and my family,โ€ she said of her time away from movie sets. โ€œBut I thought, โ€˜If I let this go away, if I donโ€™t engage again, and if I donโ€™t give it chance, I am a fool.โ€™โ€

The actress sounds grateful for the return.

โ€œIt is a privilege to make films, and we are all so lucky to do what we do,โ€ she said on the show. โ€œThat the door was even open for me after a decade was amazing.โ€

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