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Cameron Diaz stuns at 'Back in Action' premiere with Jamie Foxx after 5-year hiatus
The beauty beamed with her signature red lip
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Cameron Diaz made her highly anticipated return to the red carpet, and she did not disappoint. The actress arrived in Berlin, Germany, for the Back in Action premiere at Zoo Palast on January 15th, stunning fans with her presence. It's been five years since she stepped out of the spotlight after famously retiring—and later unretiring—from acting. Her last red carpet appearance was in April 2019 with her “Charlie’s Angels” co-stars for Lucy Liu’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.
Cameron still looked like a red carpet professionalThis marked Diaz’s first movie premiere in a decade, with her last being for Annie in 2014. The 52-year-old looked incredible wearing her signature red lip with an all-black ensemble featuring a sheer blouse, high-waisted jeans, and a floor-length coat, showing everyone exactly what they’ve been missing.
The actress wore her signature red lipIn addition to solo red carpet shots, Diaz posed with her co-star Jamie Foxx, whose journey to the premiere has been equally eventful.
Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx pose togetherYou may also like:Production on Back in Action was halted in April 2023 after Foxx suffered a serious medical complication, later revealed to involve a brain bleed and stroke. Despite the challenges, the actor made a strong recovery and returned to finish the film.
The A-lister even took the time to sign autographsA Hollywood Reunion Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz in 2014The Netflix movie marks Diaz and Foxx’s third on-screen collaboration. The pair first worked together in Any Given Sunday (1999), where Diaz played a football team owner and Foxx a quarterback, and again in Annie (2014), where she portrayed Miss Hannigan.
Annie was also Diaz’s last film before stepping away from Hollywood to focus on family life with her husband, Benji Madden, who she said encouraged her to return to acting. The couple now shares two children, Raddix and Cardinal Madden. Reflecting on her decision, Diaz told Variety in October 2024, “For me, it was just something I had to do to reclaim my own life. I didn’t care about anything else.”
She credited Foxx for coaxing her out of retirement, joking in a Netflix promo, “How do you say no to Jamie Foxx?” She added, “If there’s anyone I’d spend months laughing with on set, it’s him.”
A Bumpy Road to ReleaseDirected by Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses), the film follows a retired woman returning to action “smarter and stronger than ever,” per IMDb. The cast also includes Kyle Chandler, Glenn Close, Andrew Scott, and Jamie Demetriou.
However, the production wasn’t without its share of drama. Before his hospitalization, Foxx reportedly had an on-set meltdown, allegedly firing several crew members, including an executive producer and his driver.
Rumors of tension swirled, but Diaz, who recently shared rare insight into her marriage, set the record straight during an appearance on Molly Sims’ Lipstick on the Rim podcast, calling the reports exaggerated. "Jamie is the best, I love that guy so much,” she said.
“He’s such a special person, and he’s so talented, so much fun. I really hate all the things that were being said about our set, which at the time, you want to scream at the top of your lungs like, ‘What are you talking about!’” adding that the hiccups on set were “natural.”
Back in Action premieres on Netflix this Friday.
 — Maybe attending sports events in person is too been-there, done-that in the modern age. So, apparently, is watching the actual action on a TV, laptop or phone. The Australian Open is getting in on the newest trend in the sports world by re-creating tennis matches in video-game form.
The year's first Grand Slam tournament, which runs through Jan. 26, is streaming real-time animated feeds on its YouTube channel that mimic what's happening in the three main stadiums.
Players are represented by characters that look like something out of a Wii game — not exactly perfect portrayals of Coco Gauff or Novak Djokovic, perhaps, but the graphics do try to show the correct outfit colors or hats and bandanas the athletes are wearing and reflect what is happening in the matches, with about a one-point delay.
“Sometimes I think it’s a very accurate (depiction) of the actual player that’s playing. So it’s weird. It’s funny and weird,” said 2021 U.S. Open finalist Leylah Fernandez, who will face Gauff in the third round Friday. “I did not see myself just yet. Maybe I will. Now I’m curious, because I’ve seen different players ... and I think I want to watch myself, too.”
Tennis Australia created its own “skins” to represent players, chair umpires and ball persons.
“The wonderful part of it is it’s the players’ actual movement. It’s the actual trajectory of the ball,” Machar Reid, Tennis Australia’s director of innovation, told The Associated Press. “We’re taking the real into the unreal. That’s part of the magic.”
Carlos Alcaraz, a four-time Grand Slam champion at age 21, called it “a good alternative.”
Like many players preparing for future opponents, Fernandez often scours YouTube to try to find footage of past matches to aid with scouting. That, Fernandez said with a chuckle, is how she accidentally discovered the cartoonish replays from Melbourne Park that have been creating a buzz among the competitors.
She was having trouble finding a certain match when she noticed a thumbnail photo of two players, Fernandez said.
“So I click on it and think, ’This is it! Finally! I have one,'” Fernandez said. Nope. It’s a Wii character, which is hilarious.”
Jiri Lehecka, a Czech player seeded 24th in Australia, was checking social media the other day when he came across a “replay” of 2021 U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev's avatar destroying a net camera by smacking it repeatedly with his racket during a first-round victory.
“I had no idea that something like that exists, so for me, it was quite funny to see that,” Lehecka said. “Maybe I will see myself as a game character one day. We will see.”
To get the chance, he'll need to play a match in Rod Laver Arena, Margaret Court Arena or John Cain Arena. Tennis Australia first experimented with this on one court during last year's tournament, hoping to attract gamers and a younger audience to the sport.
The NFL, NBA and NHL also have tried this type of approach, using animation for alternate game telecasts.
The 2024 debut in Melbourne “was kind of in stealth and didn’t necessarily capture the world’s imagination. But this year, we’ve seen that happening,” Reid said.
The streams in the first four days of the event this week drew more than 950,000 views, according to Tennis Australia; the figure for the same time period in 2024 was about 140,000.
“It’s part of our DNA to innovate and try to challenge the status quo or, in this instance, provide experiences to different groups of fans that are more personalized for them to consume,” Reid said. “We’re seeing younger kids or the gaming demographic gravitating to the sport maybe in this way. Clearly, it’s not for everyone.”
Might this eventually became the No. 1 way fans “watch” sports?
“Not in my lifetime and not in yours, I don’t think. But who knows? The world of sport and entertainment is moving so, so quickly,” Reid said. “But I think we’re always going to be drawn to the amazing athletes doing their thing in front of our very eyes.”
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Howard Fendrich has been the AP’s tennis writer since 2002. Find his stories here: https://apnews.com/author/howard-fendrich %23djokovic)
