The leggy beauty announced her retirement eight years ago, but returned to the screen for one last film alongside Jamie Foxx
Cameron Diaz is finally giving up on cinema, it became clear from her statements quoted by the media. The long-legged beauty practically retired back in 2014, but announced her decision in an interview 4 years later. She kept her promise until last December, when she decided to return to the screen for one final film alongside Jamie Foxx. “Back in Action” is a comedy action of “Netflix”, the filming of which ends in April and the premiere is expected next year. Fans were very surprised by this unexpected return. The media explained her decision with friendly relations with Fox, who convinced her to participate.
According to relatives of the 50-year-old actress, she wants to devote herself entirely to her 3-year-old daughter and the 10-hour shooting days are not to her taste, because they prevent her from being close to her family.
“Most of all, Cameron wants to be a mother,” say her relatives.
The shooting process of “Back in Action” was accompanied by an unpleasant moment when Jamie Foxx lost his temper and fired 4 people from the team. Diaz’s desire to completely break away from cinema had nothing to do with this scandal, because she and her film partner are on excellent terms. In general, however, she shared that the conflicts and intrigues in Hollywood annoy her and she does not want to participate in them. “I have nothing to prove anymore,” the actress thinks. According to her, the retreat brought peace to her soul.
Born on April 30, 1972, Cameron began her career as a model thanks to her incredible physical credentials – a natural blonde with blue eyes, endless legs and a charmingly disarming smile. In 1990, he appeared on the cover of a teenage magazine and then told that he dreamed of being a zoologist and going to Africa to study lions. Decades later, going back to her high school years, she shared that she once bought marijuana from her classmate Snoop Dogg, whom she remembered distinctly because he was very tall and skinny and always walked around with his hair in a ponytail.
At that time, she was already a model for “Elite Model Management” and left for Paris in an attempt to break into the Mecca of fashion. He stayed a whole year in the French capital, but without getting a single commitment, so he barely made ends meet. Last year, in an interview with the “Second Life” podcast, she said that she finally got a contract to shoot in Morocco. At the airport, she was handed a sealed suitcase in which she was told were her costumes for the photo shoot. At first she was excited to finally have a job, but as she traveled, doubts and panic set in. Could she have become a drug mule?
Arriving at the airport, Diaz denied having anything to do with the suitcase, and it ended up with border officials. To this day, the actress is convinced that they wanted to use her to transport illegal substances and that she narrowly got out of big trouble.
Just a few weeks after this dramatic episode, her life took a completely different direction. For the film “The Mask”, the producers are looking for an unknown fresh face to partner Jim Carrey and turn to her agency. Thus fortune rests its gaze on her. The comedy was a huge success and launched the 21-year-old model to the top of Hollywood. After this role, all eyes are on the charming blue-eyed blonde. Loaded with a string of star-studded titles such as My Best Friend’s Wedding, Ah That Mary, the blockbuster Charlie’s Angels, She’s the Woman, The Vacation, Expect the Unexpected, The Gangs of New York” and many others, which make her one of the most expensively paid actresses in Hollywood – by the way, the second after Julia Roberts, who receives 20 million per role. In 2011, she signed a contract for “Bad Class” for only $1 million in fees, but which gave her the right to a percentage of the film’s profits. It ended up earning her $42 million, the highest amount ever received by an actor for a single film. Only at the age of 26, for “Ah, this Mary”, the newly born star received her first “Golden Globe”.
Retiring from the cinema, Cameron Diaz will hardly be bored. In 2015, she married rocker Benji Maiden, and in 2019, their daughter Radix was born. Family and children are the number one priority for the actress. She is also a very successful author. In 2013, The Body Book: Eat, Move, Understand and Love Your Amazing Body was released. Three months after its publication, the book reached number 2 on the New York Times bestseller list. Her second book, The Longevity Book: The Science of Aging, the Biology of Power, and the Privilege of Time, was published in 2016.
By the way, Cameron Diaz is among the Hollywood stars who have chosen to age without trying to lie about time. She often criticizes Hollywood’s discrimination against older actresses. She told how she once had botox, but the result put her off because her face changed drastically. “I’d rather look at my aging face than a face that’s not mine,” she says categorically.
Moreover, while earning millions from the big screen, the beauty also made a number of successful investments. As of 2020, she owns her own brand of organic wine.
There are no GMOs in it, the product can be consumed by vegans. The actress also invests in biotechnology startups.
She also has a collection of luxury real estate on both coasts – in Los Angeles, in Montecito and in Manhattan, New York. One of her latest acquisitions is a 7-bedroom house in Beverly Hills for $14.7 million.
Cameron Diaz is passionate about surfing and once even broke her nose. However, that hasn’t deterred her and she continues to get on the board whenever she can. However, he admits that “sex is my favorite sport”.
On the other hand, she does not like social networks at all, which she considers to be true madness and an experiment with society. “It’s dangerous for people to expect approval from a crowd of strangers,” the actress believes.
