Cameron Diaz

The star officially quit making movies in 2018 but will now be re-united on-screen with Jamie Foxx.

I felt the need to make myself whole." Had to call in the GOAT to bring back another GOAT.— Jamie Foxx (@iamjamiefoxx) @CameronDiazand I are BACK IN ACTION - our new movie with @NetflixFilm. Production starting later this year!! In 2016, she released a second book, called The Longevity Book: The Science of Aging, the Biology of Strength, and the Privilege of Time. Cameron I hope you aren’t mad I recorded this, but no turning back now. Foxx noted in the written caption to his post how he had had to employ the help of "another Goat" [greatest of all-time] to help Diaz to return. Cameron Diaz is to come out of acting retirement to star in a new movie, the suitably-titled Back in Action, alongside Jamie Foxx.

Inside the actor's eight-year retirement, and why she's ending it for a Netflix film with Jamie Foxx.

Diaz wouldn’t confirm that she had “actually retired” from acting until 2018, while celebrating the anniversary of her 2002 comedy, The Sweetest Thing. After that, the actor began speaking about why she stepped away. In 2015, Diaz married Benji Madden after seven months of dating, and they welcomed their daughter, Raddix, in December 2019. She starred in three studio movies—The Other Woman, Sex Tape, and Annie. While promoting said projects, Diaz experienced the industry’s fickle highs and lows. Professionally, she pivoted to wellness—releasing 2013’s The Body Book and its 2016 follow-up, The Longevity Book, both of which center on health and aging. Back in Action reunites Diaz and Foxx, who first worked together on Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday in 1999. Foxx revealed the news on Twitter, sharing audio from his phone call with an “anxious” Diaz. “I don’t know how to do this, you know?” she told him.

The Charlie's Angels star previously said she found her film career prevented her from managing other parts of her life.

Foxx captioned the post: “Cameron I hope you aren’t mad I recorded this, but no turning back now. She said: “When you do something at a really high level for a long period of time, when you’re the person that is delivering one thing, you’re the person on the screen, all parts of you that isn’t that has to sort of be handed off to other people.” The actress – who is married to Good Charlotte star Benji Madden, with whom she welcomed daughter Raddix in December 2019 – explained that she came to the conclusion when she was around 40 that her film career prevented her from managing other parts of her life.