Cameron Diaz‘s return to acting after 11 years in Netflix’s “Back in Action” means she’s also on her first movie press tour in more than a decade. Joining co-star Jamie Foxx for a video interview with Complex, the “Charlie’s Angels” favorite threw some shade at president-elect Donald Trump by saying it’s actually Elon Musk who is our new president. Trump and Musk are friends, with the SpaceX founder and X owner donating millions to Trump’s presidential campaign last year.
At one point during their interview, Foxx asked Diaz about online conspiracies. She answered by giving her views on aliens and recounting one theory that claims humans will all be living on Mars in the future.
“If you think about where we’re at currently in technology, we sit in front of a screen – we don’t speak to each other, we don’t have to talk,” Diaz said. “And we all know that we’re moving off the planet because now Elon Musk is our president.”
Diaz’s comment left Foxx jaw-dropped. The camera cut to the Oscar winner in humorous shock.
Shortly after winning the election over Kamala Harris, Trump assigned Musk a task to “dismantle” the U.S. bureaucracy and said that Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican primary candidate, would provide outside advice to the administration from a “Department of Government Efficiency.” The acronym DOGE was a nod to the Dogecoin cryptocurrency that has been associated with Musk.
“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” Trump said in a statement at the time about Musk and Ramaswamy. “It will become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time.”
Trump added the duo’s work would conclude in time for the country’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026, with Musk adding in his own statement: “This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!” Musk claimed last October he could cut $2 trillion from the federal budget.
As for Diaz, her role opposite Foxx in the Netflix spy action comedy “Back in Action” is her first acting gig in 11 years. Does that mean she’s going to be back in Hollywood for good?
“I don’t know how I view it. It’s hard to say,” Diaz told Empire magazine. “If I say it then it becomes this thing. I reserve the right to say no to doing a movie ever again, and I reserve the right to say yes if I decide to. I’m not defining anything. I’m just open to whatever makes sense for me and my family at any given moment.”
Should Diaz continue acting, she has one rule: “No more rom-coms, only mom-coms.”
Watch Diaz and Foxx’s full Complex interview in the video below.
