Cameron Diaz
Neil Mockford/GC ImagesCameron Diaz is grateful for her 10-year hiatus from acting — but she’s just as grateful to be back.
“Oh my God, I loved it. It’s been the best 10 years of my life,” Diaz, 52, said on the Friday, Jan. 17, episode of The Graham Norton Show about her retirement from filmmaking. “I was just free to just say, ‘I’m a mom, I’m a wife, I’m living my life.’
Diaz’s last project before her 10-year hiatus was 2014’s Annie, in which she starred alongside Jamie Foxx. She and Fox, 57, star on Netflix Back in actionwhich premiered on the streaming platform on Friday.
Diaz went on to say that retiring from acting “made sense for (her) family” at the time, as she and husband Benji Maddenwhom he married in 2015, share two children: daughter Radix, born in 2019, and son Cardinal, born in 2024. Diaz added that after a while, “people stopped asking” her to take on new roles. “It was so wonderful,” she said.
Cameron Diaz has reached her breaking point. When Annie hit theaters in 2014, it was her 38th film in 20 years. “It’s so intense to work at this level and be so public and put yourself out there,” she told friend Gwyneth Paltrow during a 2020 Goop interview. “There is a lot of energy in (…)
Diaz offered several reasons why she ultimately chose to do another film – Fox is her colleague c Back in action among them. However, she further explained why she ultimately made the choice to return to the silver screen.
“It’s a privilege to do this,” she told the host Graham Norton about acting. “I just said to myself, if I just let this go, all this goodwill, all this that I’ve had to build up for so long, the passion that I have to entertain people and make movies that (make) people smiling and laughing and having fun, and they’re sitting in the theater or sitting at home and it’s moving them – if I don’t do it again and give it a chance and participate in it and be grateful for it, I’ll be a fool.”
Despite her return, it has not been decided whether this will be a permanent move in the actress’ career. “This might be the beginning, maybe I’ll step on my toes, maybe I’ll start pushing, we’ll see,” she said. “It’s here and I’m really grateful for it.”
Earlier this month, a said a source Us Weekly that Diaz’s decision to act again “evolved over time,” adding, “It wasn’t sudden.”
In a December 2024 interview. with EmpireDiaz shared that it’s “hard to say” if he’ll do another film after that Back in actionsaying, “I reserve the right to say no to making a film ever again, and I reserve the right to say yes if I choose.”
Back in action now streaming on Netflix.
