Cameron Diaz is shutting down the “loopy” rumors that she and Jamie Foxx had an ongoing feud on the set of Again In Motion.
“I actually hate the entire issues that have been being mentioned about our set on the time … You simply wish to scream on the prime of your lungs, like, ‘What are you speaking about?’” Diaz, 51, mentioned throughout a Tuesday, December 19, episode of Molly Sims‘ “Lipstick on the Rim” podcast.
Particularly, the actress mentioned she heard rumblings that Foxx, 56, was “making all the things depressing and that I used to be by no means gonna make one other film once more due to him.”
Again in Motion marked Diaz’s return to the large display screen after stepping again from performing in 2014 to concentrate on her household life and begin her Avaline wine firm. Diaz clarified that “all people loves” Foxx, and he was the on-set “cheerleader.”
Whereas the rumors received beneath Diaz’s pores and skin, they didn’t trouble Foxx. “After I see and listen to individuals attempting to take one other individual down like that … [Jamie is] so stylish. He’s like, ‘Nope. Simply allow them to [talk],’” Diaz mentioned, explaining that the entire scenario “simply actually made me offended.”
This was removed from the primary time Diaz and Foxx have starred in a film collectively. They shared the display screen in 1999’s Any Given Sunday and within the 2014 movie adaptation of Annie.
“We’ve a lot enjoyable on the set with him, and he’s only a skilled on each stage,” Diaz gushed of Foxx. “Jamie is the very best. I really like that man a lot. He’s such a particular individual and he’s so proficient, a lot enjoyable.”
Whereas Diaz acknowledged that there have been “hiccups” throughout filming, all have been “pure” incidents that weren’t past the unusual. “Nothing received delayed apart from, clearly, towards the top,” she mentioned, referencing Foxx’s well being scare. “And that’s one thing that isn’t my place to discuss.”
Foxx was hospitalized in early April with an undisclosed sickness whereas filming in Atlanta, his daughter, Corinne Foxx, publicly introduced on the time. He was launched from the hospital in Could, and addressed the well being scare by way of Instagram in July, telling followers that he went “to hell and again.”
The Django Unchained actor made his first public look on December 4 to just accept the Vanguard Award on the Critics Selection Affiliation’s Celebration of Cinema & Tv: Honoring Black, Latino and AAPI Achievements. He opened up a bit in regards to the “medical complication” that led to his prolonged well being battle whereas on stage.
“I’ve been by some issues,” Foxx advised the group of fellow honorees and company. “It’s loopy; I couldn’t do this six months in the past. I couldn’t truly stroll.”