Cameron Diaz is lastly returning to the display screen after a 10-year hiatus — and 6 years after she reportedly retired from appearing.
Diaz, 51, is featured within the upcoming Netflix action-comedy “Again in Motion” reverse Jamie Foxx.
It’s the undertaking Foxx, 56, was engaged on when he was hospitalized final April after a “medical complication” that stored him sidelined for a number of months.
Foxx was changed by Nick Cannon on the sport present “Beat Shazam,” which Foxx hosted together with his daughter, Corinne.
He additionally needed to drop out of internet hosting one other Fox recreation present, “We Are Household” with Corinne. They had been changed by Anthony Anderson and his mom, Doris Bowman.
In December, Diaz addressed among the rumors surrounding the movie, together with that she wished to stop appearing after the “Ray” star had a meltdown on set.
“I actually hate the entire issues that had been being mentioned about our set on the time,” she mentioned on the newest episode of Molly Sims’ “Lipstick on the Rim” podcast. “You simply need to scream on the prime of your lungs, like, ‘What are you speaking about?’
“Jamie is the perfect,” she added. “I really like that man a lot. He’s such a particular particular person and he’s so proficient, a lot enjoyable … the hiccups that occurred all through manufacturing are the pure sorts of issues that occur.”
Foxx made his first public look since his illness in December when he walked onstage, unassisted, on the Critics Selection Affiliation’s Celebration of Cinema and Tv: Honoring Black, Latino and AAPI Achievements.
“I couldn’t try this six months in the past, I couldn’t really stroll to [the stage]. And I’m not a clone, I’m not a clone. I do know lots of people saying that I used to be cloned on the market,” Foxx mentioned in his speech, per the Hollywood Reporter.
Simply final month, Foxx and Diaz had been noticed in Georgia on the “Again in Motion” set, based on Web page Six.
“Again in Motion” marks Diaz’s first look on a display screen huge or small because the 2014 musical comedy film “Annie,” additionally co-starring Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale.
The 2 stars additionally labored collectively on the 1999 film “Any Given Sunday” starring Al Pacino.
Netflix launched a preview from “Again in Motion” that exhibits the celebrities interacting with one another, based on Leisure Weekly.
They play former spies Emily and Matt, who go away their careers within the CIA to start out a household collectively however their cowl is blown and so they’re pressured again into the cloak-and-dagger world of espionage.
The preview begins with the couple’s daughter, performed by McKenna Roberts, asking “What if Mother and Dad are criminals?”
Emily then leaps from one transferring speedboat to a different after punching an enemy.
That scene is adopted by footage of Matt knocking out a nasty man with a gasoline pump and Emily slamming a lady’s head right into a automobile.
“She’s fantastic, it’s not that dangerous,” Emily assures her youngsters.
Diaz has been married to Benji Madden since 2015.
Collectively they’ve a daughter, Raddix, who was born in January 2019.
In 2018, Selma Blair, who co-starred with Diaz within the 2002 film “The Sweetest Factor,” instructed Metro Information that Diaz was by with Hollywood.
“I had lunch with Cameron the opposite day, we had been reminiscing concerning the movie,” Blair, 45, mentioned. “I’d have preferred to do a sequel however Cameron’s retired from appearing. She’s like, ‘I’m carried out.’
“I imply, she doesn’t have to make any extra movies, she has a reasonably nice life, I don’t know what it could take to deliver her again,” Blair added. “She’s completely happy.”