parting ways. celebrities like cameron diaz And Rick Moranis Rose to stardom in Hollywood – only to leave her acting career in the past.
Diaz made her debut with a role in jim carrey in the 1994 film Mask, The actress continued to find success with films including My friend’s marriage, There’s Something About Mary, Vanilla Sky, Charlie’s Angels and many more.
after exchanging vows with benji madden In 2015, the Golden Globe nominee confirmed her decision to step away from acting. They welcomed daughter Radix in 2019 via a surrogate.
In August 2020, the California native reflected on her decision to put her career on hold. “I really looked at my life and I saw what I was — when you’re making a movie, that’s the perfect excuse, they own you — and I realized that I had spent parts of my life with all these people. handed over,” he explained during an episode of the “In Goop Health: The Sessions” video series. “He took it. I basically had to take it back and take responsibility for my life.
Diaz later said that her priorities have changed since she stopped acting.
“It’s a different time in my life right now,” she said yahoo finance In March 2021. “Now I am here and it is the most gratifying thing I have ever done in my life. [To] Let there be a family and a marriage and let there be our little center of a family. This is absolutely the best thing ever. … I don’t have what it takes to make a movie that it needs to make. All my energy is here.
Earlier this year, a source exclusively told us weekly That shrek The actress was “still very close” drew barrymore, Gwyneth Paltrow And more of his friends from the industry.
,[They] Both were extremely supportive and happy to forge their career path,” the insider shared. Naturally he asked if she was sure this was what she wanted, but there was no doubt in her mind that Cameron could always come back if she wanted to. It wasn’t and still isn’t a total forever thing. But once the decision was made, Cameron never really looked back. He had many offers but he politely declined them each time.
Moranis, for his part, made a name for himself with projects including Honey, I Shrunk Kids And Ghost Busters, After his wife, Ann Belsky, died of cancer in 1991, the comedian stepped away from Hollywood to focus on raising their children, Michelle and Rachel.
The actor offered a rare glimpse of his decision, stating USA Today In 2005, “I pulled out of making movies in about ’96 or ’97. I’m a single parent, and I just found that raising my kids and the traveling involved in making movies was very difficult. So I took a little break. And the little break turned into a long break, and then I found that I didn’t really miss it.
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