Diaz's 10-year retirement 'best years' of her life

Actress Cameron Diaz has said the decennary she spent successful status from acting were "the champion 10 years" of her life.

The Holiday prima returned to screens this period successful caller spy thriller - Back successful Action - with histrion Jamie Foxx.

It is unclear if this is simply a imperishable instrumentality to acting though, arsenic she told the Graham Norton Show "this is possibly the beginning... I don't know".

Asked if she liked the anonymity of taking a measurement back, she said "omg I loved it", adding she was "free" to beryllium a ma and a woman but that she was "really grateful" to beryllium back.

Her past relation was Ms Hannigan successful the 2014 remake of Annie - a movie which Foxx was besides in. However, Diaz lone formally confirmed her status from acting successful 2018.

Foxx, who has worked alongside Diaz doubly before, said they persuaded her to backmost to the manufacture by "very humbly" asking if she would instrumentality and "grace america with her unthinkable talent".

She said she was backmost successful the satellite of movie "at slightest for this" aft 10 years of "not adjacent paying attention".

But erstwhile Diaz received the publication for this caller project, she and hubby Benji Madden said "maybe it's clip to power it up for the household a small spot because, you know, it's Jamie".

It would instrumentality idiosyncratic peculiar to "leave my household for 10 hours a day", she added.

In Back successful Action, Diaz and Jamie Foxx play a joined mates - with children - and erstwhile spies who are forced retired of status erstwhile information finds them and puts their lives astatine risk.

Talking astir her hiatus, Diaz called it the "best" 10 years of her life.

"I was escaped to beryllium [like] 'I'm a mum, I'm a wife, I'm surviving my life' - it was truthful lovely."

"Ten years in, this made consciousness for my family," she explained.

When she archetypal stepped distant from acting, Diaz said she was inactive asked to play roles.

"Everybody would beryllium like: 'Would you similar to -' No.

"'You know, there's this happening -' I don't care.

"'Would you similar to articulation america -' Nope, and past radical stopped asking."

Now, 10 years on, she told Norton she feels similar it's a "privilege" to act.

"If I conscionable fto this spell away, each of this goodwill that I got to physique implicit truthful overmuch time, the passionateness I person for entertaining radical and making movies that radical grin and laughter [at] and person a bully time… if I don't prosecute that again, and springiness that a accidental and enactment successful it and beryllium grateful for it, past I would beryllium a fool," she explained.

She added: "Maybe I'll extremity toed in, possibly conscionable spell gung-ho, I don't know."