Cameron Diaz Explains Why Nothing ‘Might Change My Thoughts’ About Retiring In 2018 – The Boston Courier

Cameron Diaz says leaving the enterprise was “just something I had to do.”

The “Charlie’s Angels” star was nonetheless a bona fide A-lister when she retired in 2018. Now, with a decade behind her since she final appeared on-screen in 2014’s “Annie” adaptation, Diaz opened up in regards to the resolution to stop and her impending return to the highlight.

“It was just something I had to do,” Diaz stated Monday at Fortune’s “Most Powerful Women Summit” in Laguna Niguel, California. “It felt like the right thing for me, to reclaim my own life, and I just really didn’t care about anything else, I didn’t.”

“And nobody’s opinion, nobody’s success, no one’s offer, no one’s anything could change my mind about my decision of taking care of myself and building the life that I really wanted to have,” the actor, who married Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden in 2015, continued.

After her breakout position in “The Mask” (1994) and a star-making flip in “There’s Something About Mary” (1998), Diaz was off to the races. She labored with administrators as acclaimed as Oliver Stone and Martin Scorsese and superstars like Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Cruise.

Regardless of establishing herself as a lead actor with blockbusters just like the “Charlie’s Angels” movies and changing into an integral a part of the billion-dollar “Shrek” franchise, Diaz began serious about household — together with her resolution to retire solely rising stronger through the 2020 pandemic.

“After Covid, we were in the house for a long time, which was amazing and the problem was we would probably stay there, we would still be there right now,” Diaz stated Monday, per The Hollywood Reporter. “People would be like, ‘It’s over’ and I’d be like, ‘No it’s not.’”

The actor had her first youngster in 2019 and welcomed her second earlier this 12 months.

“I think it really comes to, what are you passionate about?” Diaz stated Monday. “For me, it was to build my family. For other people, it might just be, ’You know what? I went to school for this, and I’ve done it my whole life, and I know how to do it really, really well … but it doesn’t feed my soul.’”

Whereas she’s since introduced her comeback (and is set to star in a darkish comedy reverse Keanu Reeves, a fifth “Shrek” movie and an motion film reverse Jamie Foxx), Diaz says she merely listened to her “soul” when she determined to stop — and promised the gang that they may, too.

“You’re gonna figure it out,” she concluded.