Cameron Diaz talks acting return on Fallon

It’s been eight years since Cameron Diaz stopped appearing. However now, the Charlie’s Angels star is out of retirement and again with a brand new film. The 50-year-old actress will star alongside Jamie Foxx within the Netflix film, Again in Motion.

Diaz mentioned her comeback as a visitor on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, and defined why Again in Motion was the perfect title for her subsequent film.

“I used to be like, so hey, guys, what’s the title of this? And so they have been like Again in Motion,” she recalled. “I used to be like oh! I can actually really feel very linked to this character already.”

She additionally confirmed that she is each “nervous” and “excited” for her subsequent enterprise.

“It’s a little bit little bit of muscle reminiscence, you already know what I imply? I did that for therefore lengthy, it’s form of like the method — I simply fell again into it,” she famous. “Nevertheless it feels a little bit bit totally different.”

The star, who labored on 2014’s Annie and 1999’s Any Given Sunday with Foxx, stated it helped to reunite with an outdated good friend.

“The final film I made was Annie with Jamie, and so the primary film again is that this movie with Jamie,” she stated. “He’s so nice, he’s really easy, he’s so skilled, he’s so proficient. And simply having the ability to work with him, it’ll be a lot enjoyable.”

Her Again in Motion co-star is credited with getting Diaz in entrance of the digital camera for the upcoming Netflix movie. The Ray actor shared a snippet of the telephone name the place he bought the There’s One thing About Mary star to un-retire.

“Cameron I hope you aren’t mad I recorded this, however no turning again now. Needed to name within the GOAT to carry again one other GOAT. @CameronDiaz and I are BACK IN ACTION – our new film with @NetflixFilm . Manufacturing beginning later this yr!!” Foxx tweeted.

Foxx additionally introduced within the steadily un-retired soccer legend, Tom Brady to encourage Diaz.

“I used to be speaking to Jamie and he stated you want a couple of recommendations on easy methods to un-retire,” Brady defined. “I am comparatively profitable at un-retiring.”

Diaz replied that the skilled recommendation was “precisely what I wanted.”

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Foxx and Diaz did not spill every other particulars about Again in Motion, however the title suggests they’re going to each be in combating form for the movie. It’s going to be Diaz’s first action-heavy function since 2010’s Knight and Day, which paired her with well-known stunt-lover Tom Cruise.

The actress stepped away from appearing in 2014, with a view to pursue different alternatives. That included writing books and launching her natural wine model Avaline. In 2015, she married musician Benji Madden, and the 2 welcomed their daughter, Raddix, 4 years later.

Final yr, Diaz spoke to Kevin Hart on his Peacock sequence Hart to Coronary heart about retreating from the highlight with a view to dwell a extra unbiased life.

“While you do one thing at a very excessive degree for an extended time period, once you’re the person who’s kind of delivering on this one factor, every thing round you, all elements of you that is not that, has to kind of be handed off to different individuals,” Diaz defined. “Simply, the administration of me as a human being … Cameron Diaz is a machine. However for my private, religious self, I used to be realizing that one a part of me that functioned at a excessive degree wasn’t sufficient.”