This Friday, January 17, Netflix made a brand new action film available. In 48 hours, the platform’s subscribers adopted it, and it is already number 1 in the top.
Cameron Diaz surely couldn’t have asked for a better return to the screen. This Friday, January 17, Netflix put the film online Back in Actionwith the American actress, back after a 10-year hiatus. In less than 48 hours, the film by Seth Gordon is already number 1 on the Netflix top. He exceeded To Lifea film with Guillaume Canet about a former member of the GIGN, who until then held first place on the podium. Back in Action is also a police action film. We discover Matt and Emily, two CIA agents as a couple. 15 years ago, they took part in a dangerous mission during which they had to confront Balthazar Gor, an ex-KGB agent turned terrorist. To escape him, they changed their identities and left the American intelligence agency. But now the past catches up with them and their cover is blown.
Some setbacks occurred during the filming of Back in Action
Pour Back in ActionSeth Gordon – to whom we already owe How to kill your boss, Baywatch: Baywatch and a few episodes of The Night Agent – relied on a very high level casting. In addition to Cameron Diaz, there is Jamie Foxx in the role of Matt. The director also had the luxury of casting Glenn Close in the role of Ginny, Emily’s mother and former CIA legend. Filming took place in 2023. However, in April of that same year, Jamie Foxx had to be urgently hospitalized. Seth Gordon had to deal with this reality to shoot a few scenes with the help of a body double. After his convalescence and the writers’ strike, Jamie Foxx was finally able to shoot some sequences, explained Seth Gordon in Decider.
-What has Cameron Diaz done between 2014 and today?
Jamie Foxx is ultimately a centerpiece of Back in Action. It’s him, he explained in 2022 to Entertainment Tonightwho managed to convince Cameron Diaz to return to the studios. After twenty years of career started with Jim Carrey in The Mask, in 1994, the American actress decided to stop filming in 2014, believing that it took too much of her time and energy. She took advantage of these 10 years of break to pursue other projects and to become a mother. With her husband Benji Madden, they are now parents of two children born in 2019 and 2024.
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