Cameron Diaz refused the sequel “Mask” on one condition
Cameron Diaz ready to return to the role that made her famous.
The Back in action The 52-year-old star revealed she will reprise her breakthrough role as Tina Carlyle in the sequel Maskbut only if the lead actor Jim Carrey came back
“With Jim on board … I mean, I’ve been riding these jackets since day one,” Diaz said Access to Hollywood in a recent interview.
Carey, for his part, reflected on the 30th anniversary Mask and whether he would be interested in a sequel promoting last year’s Sonic the hedgehog 3. “God, you know, this has to be the right idea. If someone had the right idea, I guess,” Carey, 63, said ComicBook.com in December 2024 “It’s not about money. I joke about money … but I never know. You can’t be certain about these things. I said I would like to retire, but I think I spoke more about power. Because once a good idea comes your way or a group of people you really enjoy working with and so on, things just change.”
Diaz got her big break in Hollywood in the original Maskplaying nightclub singer Tina opposite Kerry’s Stanley Ipkiss, who finds a magical mask that transforms him into a mischievous green-faced hero.
The actress continued her role in Mask with blockbusters such as There’s something about Mary, My best friend’s wedding and Charlie’s Angelswhich made her one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 90s and early 2000s.
In 2014, after starring in the title role, Diaz quietly took a break from acting Annie but now back on the big screen opposite her Annie Castor Jamie Foxx on Netflix Back in action. The actress recently shared how much she loved taking a break from acting.
“Oh my god, I loved it. It’s been the best 10 years of my life,” Diaz said on the Friday, Jan. 17, episode of The Graham Norton Show. “I could just say, ‘I’m a mom, I’m a wife, I’m living my life.'”
Diaz went on to say that her retirement from acting “made sense for (her) family” at the time, as she and husband Benji Maddenwhom she married in 2015, have two children: daughter Reddix, born in 2019, and son Cardinal, born in 2024. Diaz added that after a while, “people stopped asking” her to take on new roles. “It was so wonderful,” she said.
Cameron Diaz has reached her breaking point. When Annie hit theaters in 2014, it was her 38th film in 20 years. “It’s so intense to work at that level and be so public and put yourself out there,” she told friend Gwyneth Paltrow during a 2020 Goop interview. “A lot of energy goes into (…)
But now Holiday The star is ready to return to the spotlight.
“It’s a privilege,” she told the host Graham Norton about acting. “I just said to myself, if I just let it go, all this goodwill, all the things I’ve had to build up over so long, my passion to entertain people and make movies that (make) people smile and laugh and have a good time , and they’re sitting in the theater or they’re sitting at home and it touches them – if I don’t get involved in it again and give it a chance and participate in it and be grateful for it, I b a fool”.
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