Amid a return from an 8-year hiatus, actress Cameron Diaz is now revealing she was as soon as, unwittingly, a “mule carrying medicine to Morocco.”
Diaz recounted how she acquired her begin in performing after a fruitless 12 months as an aspiring mannequin in Paris, France, earlier than her huge 1994 Hollywood break in “The Masks” with Jim Carrey.
“I used to be there a full 12 months and did not work sooner or later,” Diaz, 49, advised Second Life podcast host Hillary Kerr. “I could not e book a job to save lots of my life. Then I acquired one job however, actually, I feel I used to be a mule carrying medicine to Morocco — I swear to God.”
Diaz stated she was advised to take a “locked suitcase” carrying “outfits” from Paris to Morocco for a modeling gig, however didn’t notice there have been medicine inside till she was on the airport.
She stated she handed over the drug-filled suitcase simply weeks earlier than getting her Hollywood break in “The Masks.”
Diaz is returning to performing with actor Jamie Foxx within the comedy “Again in Motion” after resigning herself to retirement.
“This was the early 90s, and so they gave me a locked suitcase that had my ‘costumes’ in it,” Diaz stated. “I am this blonde-haired, blue-eyed lady in Morocco. I am carrying torn denims and platform boots, with my hair down — that is actually unsafe. I advised them, ‘I do not know, it is not mine; I’ve no thought whose it’s.’
“That was the one job I acquired in Paris.”
Diaz would have confronted a 10-year drug trafficking cost, however she turned the suitcase in and returned to Paris with out having accomplished the one job she had been given in Paris, she claimed.
Diaz famous “The Masks” casting brokers had been searching for a “bombshell,” and she or he acquired the function over the late Playmate and covergirl Anna Nicole Smith.
“I do not act, that is not what I do,” Diaz recollects telling the agent.
“I had simply began my interval. There was no means I used to be placing on something horny that day. I used to be like, ‘Are you kidding?'”
After starring in “There’s One thing About Mary,” “The Vacation,” “What Occurs in Vegas,” and “Charlie’s Angels,” amongst others, Diaz went into retirement in 2014 to deal with her household with husband Benji Madden and daughter Raddix, in response to the Each day Mail.
Diaz stated she was “satisfied out of retirement” by each Foxx and soccer star Tom Brady for “Again in Motion.”
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