Cameron Diaz got real about what she’s been doing during her 10-year movie hiatus — and parenting is at the top of the list.
“I was not keeping up with any kind of training,” Diaz, 52, said of her break from Hollywood in behind-the-scenes video from Netflix’s Back in Action posted on Wednesday, January 15. “I did nothing public. I said no to everything.”
The actress — whose first movie in a decade drops on Netflix Friday, January 17 — revealed that she did start her wine company, Avaline, during her pause from acting.
“That was what I was putting most of my focus on,” Diaz explained. “If I was doing anything other than just sort of being a mom and living my day to day.”
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The mother of two confessed, “That was pretty much it. I’m just trying to stay alive just like every other mother. I’m just trying to keep it going.”
Diaz had an extremely lucrative career, pumping out 38 movies in 20 years before pressing pause after 2014’s The Other Woman, Sex Tape and Annie.
The following year, the Charlie’s Angel star shifted her focus to building up her home life. Diaz married Benji Madden in 2015 and in 2018 she revealed she was “semi-retired” as an actress before clarifying that she was “actually retired.”
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In 2019, Diaz and Madden, 45, welcomed their first child, daughter Raddix, via surrogate. The pair expanded their family in 2022 when their son, Cardinal, was born via surrogate.
That same year, Diaz came out of retirement to start filming Back in Action with Jamie Foxx, whom she worked with on Annie nearly a decade prior.
In their new movie, Diaz and Foxx, 57, play former CIA agents and married couple Emily and Matt, who find themselves pulled back into the world of espionage when their secret identities are blown.
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Back in Action kick started Diaz’s return to Hollywood. She has since filmed Apple TV+’s Outcome with Keanu Reeves and Matt Bomer and is set to reprise her role as Princess Fiona in Shrek 5.
“Cameron feels like she’s settled now and is in a good place mentally,” a source exclusively shared for Us Weekly‘s cover story earlier this month. “She has a new outlook on work and the industry as a whole.”
A second insider noted that Diaz’s “goal” moving forward is “to pursue projects — whether acting, business or family life — that feel meaningful and authentic.”
