Cameron Diaz has ended her 11-year retirement by teaming up with Jamie Foxx in Netflix’s spy action comedy Back In Action – check out the trailer here.
Diaz, whose last movies were The Other Woman, Sex Tape, and Annie, plays Emily – one half of a retired CIA agent couple alongside Matt, played by her Annie co-star Foxx – in Back In Action. The pair also worked together on 1999’s sports drama Any Given Sunday.
The couple find themselves thrown back into action after their cover is suddenly exposed, and in the trailer we see them escaping a diving plane with a parachute and Foxx burning people with a flamethrower.
“For the first time in a really long time, I felt alive again. I felt like the bitch again,” Emily exclaims in the trailer. Matt says, “Just like old times, baby. Just like old times.”
Watch the trailer here:
In the movie, Diaz and Foxx star alongside a whole host of big names, including Glenn Close, Kyle Chandler, Andrew Scott, Jamie Demetriou, McKenna Roberts and Rylan Jackson, while it’s directed by Seth Gordon, who co-wrote the script with Brendan O’Brien.
Diaz stepped away from acting in 2014, explaining three years later that she became tired of travelling for filming, and in the meantime married and had two children with her husband, Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden. Last month, she said at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit about her retirement: “For me, it was just something I had to do. It felt like something I had to do to reclaim my own life. And I just really didn’t care about anything else.
“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. It really comes to: What are you passionate about? For me, it was to build my family.”
Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz attend a photocall for “Annie” at Corinthia Hotel London on December 16, 2014 in London, England. CREDIT: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images
While retired, she launched her organic wine brand Avaline, and appeared on episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race and The Drew Barrymore Show.
She’s also set to reprise her role voicing Princess Fiona in 2026’s Shrek 5, while she’s starring in Jonah Hill’s upcoming black comedy film Outcome too.
Meanwhile, Back In Action also marks Foxx’s return to the public eye after his daughter announced that he’d been hospitalised after a medical emergency last April. He later said that he’d been to “hell and back” and that he couldn’t walk at first, and is set to discuss his health further in the Netflix stand-up special What Had Happened Was, out on December 10.
Last December, Diaz shut down rumours that Foxx was “crazy” on the Back In Action set and “made everyone miserable.” She told the Lipstick On The Rim podcast: “I really hate all of the things that were being said about our set at the time. You just want to scream at the top of your lungs, like, ‘What are you talking about?’
“Jamie is, like, the cheerleader for the entire crew. Everybody loves him. We have so much fun on the set with him, and he’s just a professional on every level.”
Back In Action is scheduled to be released by Netflix on January 17, 2025.
English (US) · 