With an upcoming return to the display screen subsequent yr, Cameron Diaz is opening up about her decade-long hiatus from appearing.
The 4x Golden Globe nominee not too long ago defined why she took an intensive break from Hollywood following her final function as Miss Hannigan within the 2014 Will Gluck-helmed replace of Annie.
“For me, it was simply one thing I needed to do,” she mentioned at Fortune‘s Most Highly effective Ladies Summit. “It felt like one thing I needed to do to reclaim my very own life. And I simply actually didn’t care about the rest. I didn’t. No person’s opinion, no one’s success, nobody’s supply, nobody’s something might change my thoughts about my choice of caring for myself and constructing the life that I actually wished to have. So, I feel it actually involves: What are you captivated with? For me, it was to construct my household.”
Diaz went on to marry Good Charlotte’s Benji Madden in 2015, and so they share a daughter and son. She has since authored a number of well being books and launched the natural wine model Avaline.
The actress went on to clarify that typically it’s essential to take a break from one thing that doesn’t “feed my soul,” including, “No matter it’s, that’s the factor you are feeling in your soul that speaks to you and you are feeling peace in it, you’re gonna determine it out.”
Diaz makes her long-awaited return to the massive display screen in Again in Motion, premiering Jan. 17 on Netflix. The Seth Gordon-helmed motion comedy stars Diaz and Jamie Foxx as Emily and Matt, two seemingly common dad and mom who’re dragged again into their former lives as expert secret brokers.
Moreover, Diaz is about to reprise the voice of Princess Fiona in Shrek 5, premiering July 1, 2026. She’s additionally been in talks for the Jonah Hill-directed darkish comedy End result, starring alongside Keanu Reeves and Hill.
