Cameron Diaz looked weighted down with concern as she vanished into her character for her upcoming movie Bad Day.
The 53-year-old was one of the top glamour queens of 2000s Hollywood, one of the starriest A-list clients of the reigning celebrity stylist of the day, Rachel Zoe.
After featuring in a flop remake of Annie in 2014, she withdrew into a long semi-retirement but returned to the scene with this year’s comedy Back in Action.
Now she has thrown herself into another project, a romp about a single mother suffering her worst day ever but still trying to live up to a promise to her daughter.
She was seen on set in New Jersey this week in a simple costume of a flannel shirt, faded jeans and an olive green anorak with a bag slung over her shoulder.
In one seen that she filmed at the wheel of a car, the Charlie’s Angels blonde had a fraught expression plastered across her face.
Cameron Diaz looked weighted down with concern as she vanished into her character for her upcoming movie Bad Day
Bad Day will be reminiscent of 1993 Michael Douglas drama Falling Down but with a comedic twist, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Directed by Joel Schumacher and also starring Robert DuVall, Falling Down starred Michael as a man who cracks while stalled in Los Angeles traffic en route to his daughter’s birthday party, gets out of his car and plunges into a violent crime spree.
Cameron’s last movie before her retreat from Hollywood was the 2014 adaptation of Annie in which she played the villainous orphanage head Miss Hannigan, a role immortalized by Carol Burnett in the 1982 film of the Broadway show.
After that movie, Cameron devoted her focus to her personal life, marrying Good Charlotte frontman Benji Madden in 2015 after a 10-month romance.
They have since started a family together, welcoming their firstborn daughter Raddix in 2019 and then a son called Cardinal last year.
In 2020 amid her long hiatus, Cameron she left the movies to ‘focus on my personal life’ and ‘become self-sufficient again’ as ‘actors are infantilized’ in Hollywood.
The major life change allowed to to find ‘peace in my soul because I was finally taking care of myself,’ Cameron told Gwyneth Paltrow in an interview for Goop.
She felt ‘grounded and light’ after her departure from the movies. as ‘it’s so intense to work at that level and be that public and put yourself out there.’
In one seen that she filmed at the wheel of a car, the Charlie’s Angels blonde had a fraught expression plastered across her face
She was seen on set in New Jersey this week in a simple costume of a flannel shirt, faded jeans and an olive green anorak with a bag slung over her shoulder
Her comeback movie was this year’s Netflix action comedy Back in Action, which reunited her with her Annie co-star Jamie Foxx.
It was during the filming of Back in Action that Jamie suffered a brain bleed that ultimately led to a stroke and infamously landed him in the hospital.
‘For every person who knows Jamie, it was terrifying,’ Cameron told Extra at the movie’s Berlin premiere this January.
‘For everybody who loves Jamie, the world, everybody was concerned. I can’t even imagine how he feels,’ added the Charlie’s Angeles bombshell.
With a cast that includes Andrew Scott, Glenn Close and Kyle Chandler, the movie was savaged by the critics but got more than 45 million views in three days.
Cameron got good notices, with Roger Ebert’s old TV co-star Richard Roeper writing in the Chicago Sun-Times that she ‘hasn’t lost an ounce of onscreen charisma.’
