Cameron Diaz to star with Jamie Foxx in a Netflix feature aptly titled ‘Back in action’, is coming out from her self-proclaimed retirement from acting career.
Foxx has posted audio of him, Diaz and NFL star Tom Brady talking, on his social media “I was talking to Jamie, and he said you needed a few tips on how to unretire. And I am relatively successful at unretiring,” Brady is heard saying. (Earlier this year, Brady made an announcement he would retire from the NFL, only to unretire two months later to play the upcoming season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.)
Diaz who appeared last time on screen was in the film adaptation of Annie, which also starred Foxx. The duo also appeared together in Oliver Stone film Any Given Sunday.
Seth Gordon, filmmaker of Horrible Bosses, will direct the movie from a script he wrote with Neighbors screenwriter Brendan O’Brien. The film is an action-comedy, storyline is being kept under wraps but production is due to start later this year.
Beau Bauman (Central Intelligence) will produce for Good One Productions, along with Gordon for his Exhibit A banner. Foxx, Datari Turner, O’Brien and Mark McNair will executive produce.
Diaz first talked about her retirement in 2018 after her last onscreen appearance, and has explained the reason behind in an interview. She said “When you’re making a movie, it’s a perfect excuse. They own you”. She said in a conversation with Gwenyth Paltrow that was posted online by Paltrow’s Goop. “You’re there for 12 hours a day. For months on end, you have no time for anything else. I realized I handed off parts of my life to all these other people, and they took it”.
Diaz’s long list of screen credits include Something About Mary, The Mask, the Shrek animated franchise and the Charlie’s Angels films.
