Jamie Foxx is Cameron Diaz's biggest cheerleader on her first film in a decade

Cameron Diaz is finally back, and no one's more excited than Jamie Foxx. For their new action comedy "Back in Action" (streaming Friday on Netflix), the Oscar-winning actor did what no one else could: pull Diaz out of retirement. When the rom-com icon walked onto the set for her first movie in more than a decade − about former spies whose old life comes back to haunt them − Foxx remembers hyping her up to the cast and crew. "It was great to see Cameron back," he says, recalling how he talked up the significance of her to everyone on the set. "I was back there behind the monitor like, 'You've got to see this!' " The 57-year-old "Django Unchained" star was "such a good cheerleader," she says, and the film's director, Seth Gordon, recalls Foxx even joked that Diaz was "the star" and he was just her "bodyguard." Diaz, 52, stepped away from Hollywood after 2014's "Annie," her second film with Foxx after they first worked together on 1999's "Any Given Sunday." Since she last appeared onscreen, the actress married musician Benji Madden, welcomed her first child, and launched a wine brand. Join our Watch Party! Sign up to receive USA TODAY's movie and TV recommendations right in your inbox. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx star as a pair of spies whose old life comes back to haunt them in "Back in Action." "I had been acting for a couple of decades, and I felt like I had done it," Diaz says. "Although I loved making movies, I felt like it was time for me to just do something else, try something else, live a different way. I met my husband, we started our family, and that was where I just wanted to exist. It was a wonderful 10 years." Though Gordon knew there's nobody who can "do action and comedy together quite like" Diaz, he initially didn't approach her for the role because he was under the impression she wasn't looking for work. So when Diaz's longtime friend Foxx, who was already on board "Back in Action," suggested she could come out of retirement to play his character's wife, Gordon thought it was "too good to be true." For Diaz, the movie came along at a time, after COVID-19, when she and Madden thought it might be "something good for our family" to switch things up and have her get back on a set. Ultimately, though, she considered the project only because Foxx was involved. "I knew, having made movies with Jamie in the past, that I was going to get the most talented man in show business, and the best partner," she says. "If I'm leaving my family for 10 hours out of the day, it really matters who I'm doing it with." Good news, fans!Cameron Diaz is back onscreen for 'Back in Action' with Jamie Foxx Cameron Diaz came out of retirement to star with Jamie Foxx in "Back in Action," her first film role since 2014. "Back in Action" stars Diaz and Foxx as a pair of spies, Emily and Matt, who leave the world of espionage behind to start a family. Years later, after dipping their toes back into their old roles by tracking their teenage daughter during a night out, they accidentally blow their cover and are pulled into the life they left behind.

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