Cameron Diaz hasn't graced movie screens since 2014, and in 2018, she officially announced her retirement from acting.

"For me, it was just something I had to do," Diaz said during Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit. “It felt like something I had to do to reclaim my own life. And I just really didn't care about anything else."

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Diaz began a second chapter as a vintner, starting the vegan-friendly wine brand Avaline with friend Katherine Power in 2020. By then, she had radically refocused her life away from what had all but defined it for the previous three decades.

"Nobody's opinion, nobody's success, no one's offer, no one's anything could change my mind about my decision of taking care of myself and building the life that I really wanted to have," Diaz continued. "It really comes to: What are you passionate about? For me, it was to build my family.”

Diaz and her husband, musician Benji Madden from the band Good Charlotte, welcomed their first child via surrogate in 2019 and a second child in March of this year.

But Diaz isn't quite done with movies just yet. In January, she'll star with Jamie Foxx — whom she previously worked with on Any Given Sunday and her last film to date, Annie — in the action comedy Back in Action for Netflix.

Diaz and Foxx star as Emily and Matt, a pair of former spies who abandon their CIA careers to start a family together — until their cover is blown, forcing them back into the world of espionage.

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Diaz credited the Oscar-winner for convincing her to step back in front of the camera, writing on Instagram in 2022 around the announcement of the film, "Jamie Foxx, only you could get me back in action!!! I can't frickin wait it's gonna be a blast!"