Cameron Diaz returns to acting after eight years

Cameron Diaz is officially back. After announcing his retirement in 2018, the crazy about Maria back to acting with Back in actiona film produced by Netflix where he will share a starring role with the winner Jamie Foxx.

The last production she was the actress in was annie, which premiered in 2014. In these more than eight years away from film sets, Diaz has dedicated herself to raising her daughter Raddix and investing in startups in the fields of health and biotechnology. She has also written two books on health, one of which was second on the bestseller list New York Times.

The Californian actress, 49, made her big screen debut in The mask (1994), with Jim Carrey. Since that high-profile premiere, she has been one of the highest paid performers in the world.

Now it will return to the cinema with a new action comedy, as in explosive encounteralongside Tom Cruise, in which he will oppose the character played by Foxx, who won an Oscar for his praised portrayal of Ray Charles in the biopic Ray (2004).

The project brings together Diaz and Foxx, who worked together on the 1999 sports drama every Sunday -directed by Oliver Stone-, and in his own anniethe remake of the musical based on the popular Harold Gray cartoon character.

The details of the argument Back in action they are kept hidden. But it turns out that it will be directed by Seth Gordon (I want to kill my bosse), who wrote the script with Brendan O’Brien (good neighbors), Hollywood specialist sites reported.

A private ad with Tom Brady

Foxx posted a 44-second audio on his Twitter account this morning, in which he has a conversation with Cameron Diaz, who she claims is “excited” and “anxious” to get back into acting.

Diaz then confesses to Foxx that he doesn’t know how to announce this return. So Foxx asks for permission to include a third party in the conversation, “someone who knows these issues”. That someone is nothing more and nothing less than Tom Brady, the NFL star who announced his retirement earlier this year, but joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 40 days later.

“I was talking to Jamie and she told me you needed some advice on how to retire,” says Brady. “I’m relatively successful in not retiring,” jokes the most successful Super Bowl player in history.

Foxx, who is an executive producer on the film – with Datari Turner, O’Brien and Mark McNair – later confirmed through his networks that production on the film will begin this year.

After the announcement, Jamie Foxx, only you could put me back in action! I can’t wait for it to arrive, it will be great! ”Diaz wrote in one of his Instagram stories.

The reason for a surprise decision

Diaz surprised the Hollywood world when she announced her retirement in 2018. Her last role was that of Miss Hannigan, the family comedy villain. anniedirected by Will Gluck and produced by Jay-Z and Will Smith.

In August last year, he explained the reasons for his decision. “When you are doing something at such a high level and for such a long period of time, when you are the person on the screen, the ‘talented one’, everything around you, all the parts of you that are not, it has to be given to other people, “he said in an interview with Kevin Hart.

“It was like ‘Cameron Diaz is a machine’, but on my spiritual side that wasn’t enough,” confessed the actress in an intimate chat broadcast on Peacock TV.

Cameron has worked in many commercially successful films, including comedies. crazy about Maria, Charlie’s angels, My best friend’s Wedding Y Shrek (it’s Fiona’s voice); and similar dramas New York bands, Vanilla sky Y Do you want to be John Malkovich?Moreover.

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