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Cameron Diaz is ready to revisit the role that made her famous.
The Back In Action star, 52, said she’d be down to reprise her breakthrough role as Tina Carlyle in a sequel to The Mask, but only if lead actor Jim Carrey is back.
“If Jim’s on board … I mean, I’ve been riding those coattails from day one,” Diaz told Access Hollywood in a recent interview.
Carrey, for his part, reflected on 30 years of The Mask and whether he’d be interested in a sequel while promoting last year’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3. “Oh gosh, you know, it has to be the right idea. If somebody had the right idea, I guess,” Carrey, 63, told ComicBook.com in December 2024. “It’s not really about the money. I joke about the money … but I never know. You can’t be definite about these things. I said I’d like to retire, but I think I was talking more about power-resting. Because as soon as a good idea comes your way, or a group of people that you really enjoyed working with and stuff, it just — things tend to change.”
Diaz got her big break in Hollywood in the original Mask, playing nightclub singer Tina opposite Carrey’s Stanley Ipkis, who discovers a magical mask that transforms him into a mischievous green-faced hero.
The actress followed up her role in The Mask with blockbusters such as There’s Something About Mary, My Best Friend’s Wedding and Charlie’s Angels, making her one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the ‘90s and early 2000s.
Diaz quietly took a hiatus from acting in 2014 after starring in Annie but is now back on the big screen opposite her Annie costar Jamie Foxx in Netflix’s Back In Action. The actress recently shared how much she loved her time off from acting.
“Oh my God, I loved it. It was the best 10 years of my life,” Diaz said on the Friday, January 17, episode of The Graham Norton Show. “I was just free to just say, ‘I’m a mom, I’m a wife, I’m living my life.’”
Diaz went on to say that stepping away from acting “made sense for [her] family” at the time, as she and husband Benji Madden, who she wed in 2015, share two children: daughter Raddix, 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 lovely,” she said.
But now the Holiday star is ready to step back into the spotlight.
“It’s a privilege to do this,” she told host Graham Norton about acting. “I just said to myself, if I just let this go, all of this goodwill, all of this which I got to build over so much time, the passion that I have for entertaining people and making movies that [make] people smile and laugh and have a good time, and they sit in the theater or they sit at home and it moves them — if I don’t engage in that again and give that a chance and participate in it and be grateful for it, I would be a fool.”
