The duo star together in the new Netflix film 'Back in Action' Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx have got each other's backs. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Back in Action Director Seth Gordon says the duo supported each other throughout filming — when Diaz,
Back in Action director Seth Gordon was a few beers deep at a Dodgers game in 2019, when he started joking about a fake movie he called Baby Bjorn Identity. “What happen if Jason Bourne had kids? Would he have to quit the business?” Gordon asked his friend, movie producer Beau Bauman. “Or what if it was Mr. and Mrs. Smith, not Jason Bourne?”
Director Seth Gordon recounts the first meeting he had with Jamie Foxx when he returned to set after collapsing while in production on "Back in Action."
Back in Action stars Foxx and Diaz as former CIA spies Matt and Emily, "Years after giving up life as CIA spies to start a family, Emily and Matt find themselves dragged back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown," an official synopsis explains.
The actors had each other’s backs as she returned to the screen and he recovered from a stroke, according to director Seth Gordon.
As married CIA operatives who dropped out and have to come back, Foxx and Diaz anchor a Netflix product-of-the-week movie where nothing's at stake.
Andrew Scott, Kyle Chandler and Glenn Close also star in Seth Gordon’s caper about a pair of retired undercover agents dragged back into the spy game along with their unknowing children.
Eight-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close discussed working with the cast members and director of the new Netflix action comedy "Back in Action."
Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx are charming enough to make 'Back in Action' watchable, but the Netflix movie is flawed. Read our review.
Jamie Foxx hyped Cameron Diaz up on the set of Netflix's "Back in Action," her first film in more than a decade after she retired from Hollywood.
Netflix released a trailer for "Back in Action," an action comedy starring Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz and Glenn Close, ahead of the film's release Friday.