The movie he was filming, “ Back in Action ,” premiered on Netflix on Friday. The film stars Foxx and Cameron Diaz, in her first acting role in a decade, as former CIA spies who are pulled back into the world of espionage when their secret identities are exposed.

Oscar winner Jamie Foxx returns to film after suffering a near-fatal stroke in 2023. In Back In Action, Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx play a happily married couple who have left their former spy lives behind to concentrate on their family.

Director Seth Gordon recounts the first meeting he had with Jamie Foxx when he returned to set after collapsing while in production on "Back in Action."