The duo star together in the new Netflix film 'Back in Action' Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx have got each other's backs. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Back in Action Director Seth Gordon says the duo supported each other throughout filming — when Diaz,

Back in Action' director Seth Gordon tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview that Jamie Foxx was Cameron Diaz's 'biggest cheerleader' as she returned to acting with her first movie in more than a decade.

Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx are Back in Action, both making acting comebacks in the Netflix action flick, which started streaming on Friday, January 17. The release comes after Foxx’s much-publicized health scare, but it also ends Diaz’s self-imposed Hollywood exile of over a decade.

Cameron Diaz, who stars in Netflix's new action-comedy 'Back in Action' alongside Jamie Foxx, shared in a new interview that her acting return was "all thanks to" her costar.

Cameron Diaz is, quite literally, “Back In Action.” That’s the title of her new Netflix film with Jamie Foxx, her first in ten years. During a recent appearance on “The Graham Norton Show ,” Diaz and said Foxx is the reason she returned to Hollywood.

When Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx did press for Back In Action, which is now streaming for those with a Netflix subscription, the 52-year-old was asked if she’d be open to playing Tina Carlyle again after it became her first movie in 1994 – especially after Jim Carrey shared his interest in returning. In her words:

Diaz, who just came out of a 10-year retirement from acting in Netflix’s “Back in Action,” recently revealed to Access Hollywood that she’d be open to returning for a sequel to the 1994 comedy “The Mask” as long as Jim Carrey is involved.

C ameron Diaz 's comeback movie Back in Action is finally on Netflix after its release was pushed back from last November. Diaz, who returns to the screen 11 years after appearing in 2014's Annie, stars opposite Jamie Foxx in this action comedy from director and co-writer Seth Gordon.

Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx's crowd-pleasing 'Back in Action' has debuted at the top of the Netflix chart around the world.

Diaz, who just came out of a 10-year retirement from acting in Netflix’s “Back in Action,” recently revealed to Access Hollywood that she’d be open to returning for a sequel to the 1994 comedy “The Mask” as long as Jim Carrey is involved.

Jamie Foxx has been Cameron Diaz's "biggest cheerleader". The 57-year-old actor stars alongside Cameron, 52, in the new Netflix movie 'Back in Action', and Jamie supported his co-star throughout her return to the movie business.