Netflix has finally announced a release date for Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz‘s film Back In Action, which will hit the streaming app this November — and we have a few first images!
In the Seth Gordon-directed film, Foxx and Diaz play two parents who find themselves revisiting their former mysterious lives as skilled secret agents.
“Years after giving up life as CIA spies to start a family, Emily (Diaz) and Matt (Foxx) find themselves dragged back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown,” reads the film’s synopsis.
(L to R) Cameron Diaz as Emily and Jamie Foxx as Matt in Back In Action.
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Back in Action also stars Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights), Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction) Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers), Jamie Demetriou (Barbie), McKenna Roberts (Skyscraper), and Rylan Jackson (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves).
“A lot of people don’t know this, but after Cameron and I did Any Given Sunday and Annie together, we became friends in real life — and I’ve been begging her to come play with me again,” the Oscar-winning actor said before adding the pun, “We all know there’s just something about her…”
The Something About Mary star added, “I couldn’t have asked for a better partner, on-screen and off.”
Although its trailer has not arrived, Back in Action premieres on November 15 on Netflix.
(L to R) Glenn Close as Ginny, Jamie Demetriou as Nigel, Cameron Diaz as Emily and Jamie Foxx as Matt in Back In Action.
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Back In Action‘s premiere date comes a year after Foxx, né Eric Marlon Bishop, suffered a “medical complication” in April 2023 while filming the Netflix flick. However, it was noted that he was not on set at the time of the health scare.
After the incident, Foxx was immediately transported to the hospital, where he remained until his daughter later confirmed that he had been “out of the hospital for weeks.” In July, the 56-year-old made his first on-screen statement regarding his health.
“I cannot even begin to tell you how far it took me and how it took me back. I went through something that I thought I would never, ever go through,” he began. “I know a lot of people were waiting and you know wanting to hear updates, but to be honest with you, I just didn’t want you to see me like that, man. I want you to see me laughing, having a good time, partying, cracking a joke, doing a movie, television show. I didn’t want you to see me with tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was gonna make it through.”
Crediting his children and sister for him being alive and well, he added, “To be honest with you, my sister Deidra Dixon, my daughter Corinne Marie saved my life. So to them, and to God, to a lot of great medical people, I’m able to leave you this video. I cannot tell you how great it feels to have your family kick in in such a way and y’all know they kept it airtight. They didn’t let nothing out. They protected me and that’s what I hope that everyone could have in moments like these.”
As Foxx was being nursed back to health, rumors of him having a stroke and being paralyzed began swirling. In his video, he shut down all of those speculations.
“As you can see, the eyes are working fine and I’m not paralyzed, but I went to hell and back,” he said while demonstrating the mobility of his face. “And my road to recovery had some potholes as well, but I’m coming back and I’m able to work.”
“I love all of the love that I got. I know they talk about people crying on video, but it is what it is,” he said with gratitude. “I just want you to remember me for the jokes that I crack, the movies that I make — some of them good, some of them ain’t (I think I’ve got a good one out), and songs that I sing. I’m here on earth because of some great people. I’m here on earth because of God, man.”
