Turned his back on Hollywood
Updated on October 16, 2024, 4:10 p.m
Cameron Diaz turned his back on Hollywood for a long time. © Getty Images for Fortune’s Most /Presley Ann
She wants to be “back in action” again in 2025. Then Hollywood star Cameron Diaz makes her comeback in the film of the same name – ten years after she turned her back on Hollywood. In an interview, Diaz reveals the real reasons for her exceptionally long break from work.
Her fans still have to be a little patient. At the beginning of 2025, Cameron Diaz (52) will return to the film screen after a break of more than ten years. The title of her comeback film alongside Jamie Foxx (56) says it all: “Back in Action.”
With the action-packed comedy, Diaz wants to build on her extremely successful film career before the mega break. Diaz has now revealed how she has “reclaimed” her life in recent years in conversation with “The Hollywood Reporter”.
Exit as a Hollywood superstar
With her Christmas classic “Love Needs No Holidays” and other cult films, Cameron Diaz has also been regularly featured on all screens in recent years. But the fact is: Diaz’s last film, “Annie,” was released in 2014.
The romantic comedy “Love doesn’t need a holiday”, which belongs to Christmas like mulled wine and gingerbread, even dates back to 2006. Ten years ago, Diaz decided to take an extraordinarily long break. For ten years, one of today’s biggest film stars got off the Hollywood hamster wheel and fulfilled several dreams at once.
“Felt right to take my life back”
What motivated the former “There’s Something About Mary” cult blonde to turn her back on the film business that made her a superstar for so long? At Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit, an event for successful businesswomen on Monday in California, Diaz revealed her 10-year happiness plan: “I just had to do it. It felt right to me to take back my own life. Everything I really didn’t care about anyone’s opinion, anyone’s success, anyone’s offer, nothing could distract me from my decision to take care of myself and build the life I really wanted.”
And Diaz has really built up a lot over the past ten years. In 2015 she married the Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden (45) and had daughter Raddix in December 2019 and son Cardinal with him in March 2024. Together with her business partner Katherine Power (39), she also founded the wine brand “Avaline” in 2020.
“I replied, ‘All right, let’s go’
Then why the film comeback with “Back in Action” in January 2025 on Netflix? “They said my career was over,” Diaz said. “And I said, ‘No, it’s not over for me.'” She received a lot of support for her comeback from her family, especially her husband: “He said, ‘You supported us and built the family. It is Time for us to support you and let mommy do her thing.’ He said, ‘Let me see how you do it, girl.’ And I said, ‘Well, let’s go.’ It was just the right time for my family.”
Comeback also with “Shrek”
Another motivating factor for her comeback was her film partner in “Back in Action”, Jamie Foxx. “I couldn’t say ‘no’ to Jamie. He said, ‘Come with me’ and I said, ‘Okay, let’s do it.'” “Back in Action” is the third collaboration between the two Hollywood stars after ” Annie” in 2014 and “Every Damn Sunday” in 1999.
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