Cameron Diaz has decided on the sequel to the film Mask in One State

Cameron Diaz is ready to revisit the role that made her famous.

The Back in action The 52-year-old star said she is set to reprise her breakthrough role as Tina Carlisle in the sequel. Maskbut only if the main actor Jim Carrey is back.

“If Jim is on board … I mean, I've been riding in those coats since day one,” Diaz said. Access Hollywood in a recent interview.

Carey, on the other hand, reflected for 30 years Mask and whether he would be interested in a continuation of last year's promotion Sonic the Hedgehog 3. “Oh my gosh, you know, it's got to be the right idea. If somebody had the right idea, I thought,” Carey, 63, said ComicBook.com in December 2024. “It's not really about the money. I joke about money… but I never know. You can't be sure about these things. I said I'd like to retire, but I think I was talking more about power rest. Because once you have a good idea or a group of people that you really enjoyed working with and so on, things just change.

Diaz got her big break in Hollywood in the original Maskplaying nightclub singer Tina opposite Kerry Stanley Ipkiss, who discovers a magical mask that transforms her into an evil green-faced hero.

The actress continued her role in the film Mask with blockbusters like There's something about Mary, My best friend's wedding and Charlie's Angelsmaking him one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Diaz quietly retired from acting in 2014 after landing the lead role Annie but is now back on the big screen opposite her Annie costar Jamie Foxx on Netflix Back in action. The actress recently shared how much she enjoyed her time away from acting.

“Oh my God, I loved it. It was the best 10 years of my life,” Diaz said on the Friday, Jan. 17, episode. The Graham Norton Show. “I was just able to just say, 'I'm a mom, I'm a wife, I'm living my life.'

Diaz went on to say that giving up acting at the time “made sense for (her) family” because she and the husband Benji Maddenwhom she married in 2015, they have two children together: daughter Radix, born in 2019, and son Cardinal, born in 2024. Diaz added that after a while, “people stopped asking” her to take on new roles. “It was so nice,” she said.

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Cameron Diaz had reached her breaking point. When Annie hit theaters in 2014, it was her 38th film in 20 years. “It's so intense to work at that level and be so public and put yourself out there,” she told friend Gwyneth Paltrow in a 2020 Goop interview. “There is a lot of energy coming to (…).

But now Holidays star is ready to return to the limelight.

“It's a privilege to do this,” she told the host Graham Norton about acting. “I just said to myself, if I just let go of this, all this goodwill, all that I've had to build up for so long, the passion that I have for entertaining people and making movies that (make) people smile and laugh and well hang out and they're sitting in the theater or they're sitting at home and they're moved by it — if I don't get involved with it and give it a chance and participate in it and be grateful for it, I'd be a fool.”