Cameron Diaz retired from acting after her last film – a remake of Annie in which she played Miss Hannigan – was released in 2014. She casually confirmed that she was no longer acting in an interview with EW in 2018, telling her co-stars of the early noughties romcom The Sweetest Thing that she was “actually retired”. Two years later, she expanded on her decision to step away from Hollywood, telling Gwyneth Paltrow that she had grown tired of being “infantilised” by her industry and realised she had to learn how to become self-sufficient. The move brought her, she said at the time, “a peace in my soul”.
Obviously, Diaz has since learned how to boil the kettle and make herself a cuppa, because she is coming out of retirement after eight years. Jamie Foxx broke the news on Twitter, announcing that he and Diaz would be starring in a new film for Netflix called, appropriately, Back in Action. Foxx added a clip of him on the phone to Diaz, who claimed she was feeling anxious. “I don’t know how to do this,” she said; Foxx then recruited the retired and then not-retired NFL star Tom Brady to give her a little guidance on how to stage a comeback.
