Cameron Diaz on Leaving Hollywood a Decade Ago, What Brought Her Back

After changing into one of many largest stars in Hollywood, Cameron Diaz stepped away from the limelight in 2014; now 10 years later, with a number of new initiatives within the works, Diaz is opening up about her resolution to each go away and return.

Along with her final onscreen function in 2014’s Annie, Diaz stated at Fortune’s Most Highly effective Girls Summit on Monday that stopping performing “was one thing I simply needed to do. It felt like the appropriate factor for me to do to reclaim my very own life and I simply actually didn’t care about the rest. No one’s opinion, no one’s success, nobody’s supply, nobody’s something may change my thoughts about my resolution of caring for myself and constructing the life that I actually needed to have.”

Within the final decade, Diaz has married Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden and welcomed two kids, daugher Raddix and son Cardinal. She additionally launched clear wine model Avaline with companion Katherine Energy in 2020.

Now, Diaz is ready to return to the massive display for Netflix’s Again in Motion with Jamie Foxx, premiering on the streamer in January 2025. She can be reported to be returning for the upcoming Shrek 5 and is in talks to star reverse Keanu Reeves in darkish comedy End result.

“It was simply the appropriate time for my household. After Covid, we had been in the home for a very long time, which was superb and the issue was we might in all probability keep there, we might nonetheless be there proper now. Folks can be like, ‘It’s over’ and I’d be like, ‘No it’s not, it’s not over for me,’” Diaz defined of coming again to Hollywood. “So I needed to push myself; my husband and I — my husband, who’s one of the best — he was like, ‘You’ve been supporting us and constructing the household’ and supporting him in his companies, he’s like, ‘It’s time for us to help you and let Mommy ascend and do her factor.’ He’s like, ‘Let me see you do it woman.’ I used to be like, ‘Alright, right here we go.’”

She added that for the Netflix undertaking, she additionally “couldn’t say no to Jamie. He stated, ‘Include me’ and I stated, ‘OK let’s do it;’ it’s our third movie collectively so it’s actually nice.” The 2 beforehand labored collectively on Annie and 1999’s Any Given Sunday.