Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx's new action-comedy Back In Action recently debuted on Netflix, marking Diaz's return to acting after nearly a decade. The film, directed by Seth Gordon

Back in Action' director Seth Gordon tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview that Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx supported each other throughout filming — when the actress marked her return to acting with her first movie in over a decade and the actor had a medical emergency during production in April 2023.

The movie he was filming, “ Back in Action ,” premiered on Netflix on Friday. The film stars Foxx and Cameron Diaz, in her first acting role in a decade, as former CIA spies who are pulled back into the world of espionage when their secret identities are exposed.

Viewers have truly tuned in for Cameron Diaz's highly anticipated return in Back in Action, as the action comedy has debuted at No. 1 on Netflix's Top 10 English movie list across over 80 countries. The spy flick saw Diaz's return to the big screen for the first time since Annie,

Back in Action,” a new Netflix film starring Diaz alongside Jamie Foxx, was the streamer’s most-watched title during the week of Jan. 13-19. With only three days of availability, the film hit 46.8 million views — the biggest opening weekend for an English-language film on Netflix since

Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx save a slow week for new Netflix releases with their new high-energy spy comedy Back in Action.

Actress Cameron Diaz’s first acting role in almost a decade pushed her Netflix film ‘Back in Action’ to almost 50 million views in its first three days on the platform, breaking an almost three-year-old opening weekend record for an English language Netflix film.

Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx may be back in action, but they’re fine with retiring some of their past outfit choices. In a hilarious video shared to Netflix’s TikTok account on Jan. 20, the Back in Action costars looked back on their memorable fashion,