Cameron Diaz is ready to revisit the role that made her famous.
THE Back in action The star, 52, said she would be open to reprising her breakthrough role as Tina Carlyle in a sequel to The maskbut only if the main actor Jim Carrey is back.
“If Jim is on board… I mean, I’ve been on these coat tails since day one,” Diaz said Access Hollywood in a recent interview.
Carrey, for his part, reflected on 30 years of The mask and if he would be interested in a sequel during last year’s promotion Sonic the Hedgehog 3. “Oh my God, you know, this must be the right idea. If someone had the right idea, I guess,” Carrey, 63, said. ComicBook.com in December 2024. “It’s not really about the money. I joke about money… but I never know. You can’t be specific about these things. I said I would like to retire, but I think I meant more power rest. Because as soon as a good idea comes to you, or a group of people you really enjoyed working with, etc., things tend to change.
Diaz got her big break in Hollywood in the original Maskplaying nightclub singer Tina opposite Carrey’s Stanley Ipkis, who discovers a magical mask that transforms him into a mischievous green-faced hero.
The actress continued her role in The mask with blockbusters like There’s something about Mary, My best friend’s wedding And Charlie’s Angelsmaking him one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 90s and early 2000s.
Diaz quietly took a break from acting in 2014 after starring in Annie but is now back on the big screen opposite her Annie costar Jamie Foxx in Netflix Back in action. The actress recently shared how much she loves her free time.
“Oh my God, I loved it. It was the best 10 years of my life,” Diaz said on the Friday, January 17, episode. The Graham Norton Show. “I was just free to say, ‘I’m a mom, I’m a woman, I’m living my life.'”
Diaz went on to say that stepping away from acting “made sense for (her) family” at the time, as she and husband Benji Maddenwhom she married in 2015, share two children: daughter Raddix, born in 2019, and son Cardinal, born in 2024. Diaz added that after a while, “people stopped asking” her about take on new roles. “It was so beautiful,” she said.
Cameron Diaz had reached his breaking point. When Annie hit theaters in 2014, it was his 38th film in 20 years. “It’s so intense to work at this level and be so public and put yourself out there,” she told her friend Gwyneth Paltrow during an interview with Goop in 2020. “There’s a lot of energy arriving (…)
But now the Vacation The star is ready to return to the spotlight.
“It’s a privilege to do this,” she told the host Graham Norton about acting. “I just said to myself, if I let go, all this good will, all this that I have been able to build for so long, the passion that I have for entertaining people and making films that (make) people smile people and laugh and have a good time, and they sit in the theater or at home and it moves them – if I don’t engage in that again and give that a chance, don’t participate in it and am not grateful for it, I would be one fool.