After a ten-year hiatus, actress Cameron Diaz is back! She makes her big comeback in the Netflix action film Back in Action (2025)in which she stars alongside Jamie Foxx, Glenn Close and Kyle Chandler. Fans wasted no time and watched the film straight away. The first reactions are mainly enthusiastic.
Back from being away
Diaz left the film industry about ten years ago after completing Annie (2014)her second film with Jamie Foxx, after Any Given Sunday (1999). It is therefore special that the actress can now be seen next to Foxx again and that is no coincidence: Foxx did everything he could to win Diaz for the film. Once the actress returned to set, Foxx was absolutely freaking out.
It was great to see Cameron again. I stood behind the monitor and said, ‘You have to see this!’
Director Seth Gordon stated that he initially did not consider Diaz for his film, because he assumed that the actress was no longer interested in films. When Foxx revealed the plan to Gordon, the director briefly thought it was too good to be true. The opportunity seemed unrealistic, but Foxx made it possible. Foxx and Diaz are in Back in Action starring as former CIA spies Emily and Matt, they are unexpectedly drawn back into the world of espionage after their secret identities are exposed.
The first reactions
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