Cameron Diaz is finally returning to the screen after a 10-year hiatus — and six years after she reportedly retired from acting.
Diaz, 51, is featured in the upcoming Netflix action-comedy “Back in Action” opposite Jamie Foxx.
It’s the project Foxx, 56, was working on when he was hospitalized last April after a “medical complication” that kept him sidelined for several months.
Foxx was replaced by Nick Cannon on Fox’s game show “Beat Shazam,” which Foxx hosted with his daughter, Corinne.
He also had to drop out of hosting another Fox game show, “We Are Family” with Corinne. They were replaced by Anthony Anderson and his mother, Doris Bowman.
Back in December Diaz addressed some of the rumors surrounding the film, including that she wanted to quit acting after the “Ray” star had a meltdown on set.
“I really hate all of the things that were being said about our set at the time,” she said on the latest episode of Molly Sims’ “Lipstick on the Rim” podcast. “You just want to scream at the top of your lungs, like, ‘What are you talking about?’”
“Jamie is the best,” she added. “I love that guy so much. He’s such a special person and he’s so talented, so much fun … the hiccups that happened throughout production are the natural kinds of things that happen.”
Foxx made his first public appearance since his malady in December when he walked onstage, unassisted, at the Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Cinema and Television: Honoring Black, Latino and AAPI Achievements.
“I couldn’t do that six months ago, I couldn’t actually walk to [the stage]. And I’m not a clone, I’m not a clone. I know a lot of people saying that I was cloned out there,” Foxx said in his speech, per the Hollywood Reporter.
Just last month, Foxx and Diaz were spotted in Georgia on the “Back in Action” set, according to Page Six.
“Back in Action” marks Diaz’s first appearance on a screen big or small since the 2014 musical comedy movie “Annie,” also co-starring Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale.
The two stars also worked together on the 1999 movie “Any Given Sunday” starring Al Pacino.
Netflix released a preview of Diaz and Foxx from “Back in Action” that shows them interacting with each other, according to Entertainment Weekly.
They play former spies Emily and Matt, who leave their careers in the CIA to start a family together but their cover is blown and they’re forced back into the cloak-and-dagger world of espionage.
The preview starts with the couple’s daughter, played by McKenna Roberts, asking “What if Mom and Dad are criminals?”
Emily then leaps from one moving speedboat to another after punching an enemy.
That scene is followed by footage of Matt knocking out a bad guy with a gasoline pump and Emily slamming a woman’s head into a car.
“She’s fine, it’s not that bad,” Emily assures her kids.
Diaz has been married to Benji Madden since 2015.
Together they have a daughter, Raddix, who was born in January 2019.
Back in 2018, Selma Blair, who co-starred with Diaz in the 2002 movie “The Sweetest Thing, told Metro News that Diaz was through with Hollywood.
“I had lunch with Cameron the other day, we were reminiscing about the film,” Blair, 45, said. “I would have liked to do a sequel but Cameron’s retired from acting, she’s like, ‘I’m done.’
“I mean, she doesn’t need to make any more films, she has a pretty great life, I don’t know what it would take to bring her back,” Blair added. “She’s happy.”