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Jamie Foxx & Tom Brady Help Cameron Diaz Un-Retire From Acting
Cameron Diaz is acceptable to return to the spotlight.
After 8 years distant from Hollywood, the histrion opened up astir her upcoming Netflix movie Back successful Action, admitting she was "both" tense and excited astir getting backmost successful beforehand of the camera.
"It's a small spot of musculus memory, you cognize what I mean?" she explained during a Sept. 16 quality connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "I did that for truthful long, it's benignant of similar the process, I benignant of conscionable fell backmost into it. But it feels a small spot different.
Cameron, 50, besides gushed how it was "amazing" to instrumentality to acting alongside Jamie Foxx, with whom she antecedently appeared successful the 1999 sports play Any Given Sunday and the 2014 remake of the philharmonic Annie.
"The past movie I made was Annie with Jamie, and truthful the archetypal movie backmost is this movie with Jamie," she said. "He's truthful great, he's truthful easy, he's truthful professional, he's truthful talented, and conscionable being capable to enactment with him."
She added, "It volition beryllium truthful overmuch fun."
Jamie, 54—who Cameron describes "like a racehorse"—serves arsenic some her co-star and enforcement shaper connected Back successful Action, which begins accumulation aboriginal this year.
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Last month, the Oscar winner revealed however helium convinced the histrion to travel retired of retirement for the film, saying it progressive immoderate bully old-fashioned begging.
"We conscionable begged and pleased connected my knees, like, 'Just springiness the radical 1 much again,'" Jamie exclusively told E! News' Daily Pop successful August. "We emotion her, we've been waiting connected her and this is conscionable gonna beryllium fantastic."
During her break from acting, Cameron joined Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden in 2015 and welcomed girl Raddix in 2019.
In an episode of In Goop Health: The Sessions, the Charlie's Angels star opened up astir her decision to discontinue astatine what was seemingly the tallness of her career, explaining to big Gwyneth Paltrow that she never made "any abstraction for [her] idiosyncratic life."
"I conscionable decided that I wanted antithetic things retired of my life," she said. "I had gone truthful hard for truthful long, working, making films and it's specified a grind," she said successful 2020. "When you're making a movie—it's a cleanable excuse—they ain you. You're determination for 12 hours a time for months connected extremity and you person nary clip for thing else."
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Moreover, Cameron said that her beingness successful the spotlight was draining, thing that Gwyneth said she could "understand."
"It's truthful aggravated to enactment astatine that level and beryllium that nationalist and enactment yourself retired there," she continued. "There's a batch of vigor coming astatine you astatine each times erstwhile you're truly disposable arsenic an histrion and doing property and putting yourself retired there.
When Gwyneth asked what it felt similar to permission that past behind, Cameron responded, "Like peace. A bid successful my psyche due to the fact that I was yet taking attraction of myself."
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