After an 10-year hiatus, Cameron Diaz is gearing as much as reclaim her place on the purple carpet.
Diaz will make her hotly-anticipated return to appearing alongside Jamie Foxx within the Netflix comedy “Back in Action,” due out Jan. 17.
The movie’s first teaser trailer, unveiled Thursday, follows two former CIA brokers who’ve turned their backs on their occupation for a lifetime of married domesticity. The pair quickly uncover that outdated habits die arduous once they’re thrust again into the world of espionage by a collection of hair-raising occasions. The movie’s forged additionally contains Kyle Chandler, Glenn Shut and Andrew Scott.
“Back in Action” is Diaz’s first movie function since her portrayal of Miss Hannigan within the 2014 adaptation of “Annie,” which additionally starred Foxx. She formally introduced her Hollywood retirement in 2018, and has since welcomed two kids with musician Benji Madden, her husband of 9 years.
Foxx confirmed Diaz’s “Back in Action” casting in June 2022 by sharing a cheeky recording of a three-way chat between the 2 actors and NFL celebrity Tom Brady, who had introduced his retirement from skilled soccer that 12 months solely to rejoin the Tampa Bay Buccaneers simply 40 days later.
“Cameron is such an incredible force and she has done so much in this business,” Foxx later instructed “Entertainment Tonight” in an interview. “We love her. We had to be very innovative in how we, you know, brought her back.”
Manufacturing on “Back in Action,” nonetheless, hit a significant snag final 12 months when Foxx was hospitalized following an sudden “medical complication.” The actor has but to reveal specifics of his situation.
Diaz addressed her choice to step away from appearing whereas showing at a girls’s empowerment occasion final 12 months.
“It felt like the right thing for me, to reclaim my own life, and I just really didn’t care about anything else,” she mentioned. “I think it really comes to, what are you passionate about? For me, it was to build my family.”
