Cameron Diaz is coming out of retirement after 11 years with Netflix’s ‘Back In Action’

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Cameron Diaz has ended her 11-year retirement by teaming up with Jamie Foxx in Netflix’s spy action comedy Back In Action – check out the trailer here.Diaz, whose last movies were The Other Woman, Sex Tape, and Annie, plays Emily – one half of a retired CIA agent couple alongside Matt, played by her Annie co-star Foxx – in Back In Action.

The pair also worked together on 1999’s sports drama Any Given Sunday.The couple find themselves thrown back into action after their cover is suddenly exposed, and in the trailer we see them escaping a diving plane with a parachute and Foxx burning people with a flamethrower.“For the first time in a really long time, I felt alive again.

I felt like the bitch again,” Emily exclaims in the trailer. Matt says, “Just like old times, baby. Just like old times.”Watch the trailer here:In the movie, Diaz and Foxx star alongside a whole host of big names, including Glenn Close, Kyle Chandler, Andrew Scott, Jamie Demetriou, McKenna Roberts and Rylan Jackson, while it’s directed by Seth Gordon, who co-wrote the script with Brendan O’Brien.Diaz stepped away from acting in 2014, explaining three years later that she became tired of travelling for filming, and in the meantime married and had two children with her husband, Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden.

Last month, she said at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit about her retirement: “For me, it was just something I had to do.