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Actors Rejected By Hollywood: Cameron Diaz


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Cameron Diaz’s career started so well with ‘The Mask’, but now she’s joined the list of actors rejected by Hollywood. Why? There are plenty of reasons that could explain Cameron’s fall from grace. Her recent lackluster career is down to awful remakes, bad movie choices and a move towards the R-rated that didn’t do her any favors whatsoever. Discover all the ways in which Cameron’s career is struggling, and what she needs to do to get back up to the top.

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If she wanted to be working she would be, end of story.

Har ring molassis abounding
Common lap kitch sardin a poor floundin.

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Why Hollywood won't cast Cameron Diaz anymore

http://www.nickiswift.com/84779/hollywood-wont-cast-cameron-diaz-anymore/

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Nickiswift is nothing but click bait. LoL. Hardly a reputable source.
Personally, I like Cameron. She has the choice to work or not. She was the highest paid actress for a while.

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You are polite by saying "click bait". I'd say Nickiswift is bullshit most of the time.

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😂😂😂😂😂

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Yeah, well, she hit the age of "no longer cute".

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Cameron Diaz retires from acting. Says she is done

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/20792604-cameron-diaz-retires-from-acting.-says-she-is-done

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/20792547-cameron-diaz-retires-from-acting!!!-i-m-done-

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/cameron-diaz-has-%E2%80%98retired-from-acting%E2%80%99-as-actress-says-%E2%80%98i%E2%80%99m-done%E2%80%99.1481330/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5489973/Cameron-Diaz-retires-acting-focus-husband-Benji-Madden.html

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Good for her!

She's made her pile, she can do what she wants from now on.

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https://www.datalounge.com/thread/24561609-it-s-cameron-diaz-s-47th-birthday

I think a lot of the problem with Diaz was the bad PR advice she got during the late 90s into the mid 2000s, where she was marketed as a "one of the boys" kind of girl who belched on TV and basically played into the porn-star-eating-cheeseburgers - image that was popular back then. It became dated quickly, and while some dopey bros might like to see a 25-year-old lady belching for the lulz, they don't want to see a 40-year-old woman doing it.

She's also been dogged with rumors of being rude to fans for 20 years or longer, and that takes a toll, especially when your whole image is "fun approachable party girl." She was still doing it in 2014 when she lectured an entire audience at a premiere for that terrible movie SEX TAPE.

And remember when she told Andy Cohen she slept with women and when someone wondered if it was Drew Barrymore, she said the thought made her vomit and "I wouldn't even menage with her"?

She's just rude. I know everyone here loves her, but that's because absence makes the heart grow fonder. No one here liked her back in 2014, and for reasons.

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reply 48 16 hours ago

She was always betwixt and between in terms of casting: she couldn't play sexy dippy blondes as well as Heather Graham, and she couldn't play smart alpha bitches as well as Reese Witherspoon, and she couldn't play viking kick-ass goddesses like Charlize Theron could AT ALL. She couldn't even play scrappy everywomen the way Renee Zellweger could at her peak.

My point is, she never quite found her niche like the other actresses did, which is why she never did as well as them career-wise. Her best casting ever was in Something About Mary, but how often do roles like that come along?

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reply 54 10 hours ago

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IMHO she really did find her niche, playing the hot fun gal, what used to be called a "man's woman". She worked that niche for all it was worth, and made enough to retire young, something I cam only envy.

It's just not a niche that can be occupied for a lifetime. Well, unlike Witherspoon, it seems that Diaz doesnt need to keep at the game forever, more power to her for that.

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https://whatculture.com/film/10-exact-moments-actors-stopped-trying?page=3

By the early 2000s, Cameron Diaz had seemingly graduated beyond her early eye candy roles, having worked with the esteemed likes of Danny Boyle, Spike Jonze, Oliver Stone, Cameron Crowe, and in 2002, even Martin Scorsese.

But almost immediately after appearing in Scorsese's Gangs of New York - which was without question her most prestigious role to date - Diaz abandoned any remaining desire to work with classy auteurs and started shamelessly slumming it in low-effort genre films.

The cynical epitome of this was 2008's What Happens in Vegas, a head-smackingly convoluted rom-com in which herself and Ashton Kutcher play two strangers who, after drunkenly getting married and winning a casino jackpot, are forced to stay together for six months in order to each receive half of the winnings.

It's a movie which comfortably adheres to every tired genre trope, most of all the inevitable gratuitous underwear scene where Diaz needlessly struts her stuff for the audience.

It's the point at which Diaz seemingly forgot about her rising cred with actual artists and decisively cashed in on her looks, which she followed up with similarly shallow dud projects like Knight & Day, Gambit, What to Expect When You're Expecting, The Counselor, The Other Woman, Sex Tape, and Annie.

Though Diaz has since retired from acting, it's clear from her final years of work that she'd lost her passion and was simply chasing the fat paycheck roles, which she evidently hoovered up in abundance - and landed herself a Worst Actress Razzie win (for The Other Woman and Sex Tape) in the process.

Fingers crossed she might return to acting in the future and deliver something totally unexpected, because she's so much better than all this trashy genre slop.

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Pretty sure the movie industry made the decision for her.

Cameron WHO?

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Lol, yeah, when you can't get roles anymore, nothing left to do but retire. I heard Pauly Shore retired for the same reasons.

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Pauly Shore was allegedly blackballed in retaliation to beating Denise Richards up so badly that she needed surgery. Again allegedly, Denise before she got into acting, was an escort. A major big-wig in Hollywood, who really *liked* Denise Richards soon sought out to make sure that Pauly Shore would have a hard time landing significant work.

http://www.foxella.com/then-one-night-his-world-changed-forever/

http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2017/10/blind-item-5-himmmm.html?m=1

https://www.reddit.com/r/howardstern/comments/78n0ew/wow_when_will_howard_discuss/

https://tattle.life/threads/secret-celeb-gossip-21.7474/post-1863331

https://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showpost.php?p=18205054&postcount=21

https://dlisted.com/2019/05/23/charlie-sheen-once-brought-a-hooker-to-thanksgiving-dinner-at-denise-richards-house/#comment-4475728987

https://www.radiogunk.com/forums/index.php?threads/whats-that-thing-on-pauly-shores-head.45857/post-1913652

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That is a rumor that doesn't have a source. I'm not saying it did or didn't happen, but I've never heard anyone actually back this up, and Pauly is so far out of the A-List scene, I don't know why anyone would ever cover for him. I'd say it's more likely that he isn't working because he was a one note hack.

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A one-note hack is accurate. Still, Adam Sandler is also a one-note hack and he's done a lot better.

Rumors without a reliable source are worthless, and it seems to me that anyone who would beat up a woman at all would have a history of it. Once Weinstein was outed, the pattern emerged. No one is protecting Shore now if anyone ever did.

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Sandlers success is an enigma.

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Several years ago, a friend asked me if I intended to see the new Adam Sandler movie that was coming out in the fall. I told him I already saw it...

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This is pretty stupid of me, I'll admit, but ...
At some point I thought I saw somewhere she excoriated Taco Bell and their patrons as the fare wasn't good, acceptable food.
My immediate reaction was, who cares what CD has to say about the Nations eating habits?
She probably has a good point, but who is she to judge others in this Capitalist nation that lures people into bad eating habits.
Where I come from Taco Hell is hugely successful, and isn't that what matters these days?

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You were always a trivial asshole, snepts.

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Lol, you hit that nail right on the head.

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She retired from acting in 2014 and writes health books.

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http://www.agcwebpages.com/BLINDITEMS/2020/AUGUST.html

67. ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 08/06 **11**

https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2020/08/blind-item-11_6.html

I mean, it is as good of a story as she could give, but bears nothing resembling the truth. The former A+/A list mostly movie actress didn't even hint at the real reason she stopped acting. Cameron Diaz (Cameron Diaz reveals why she quit acting in interview with Gwyneth Paltrow) (BLIND ITEM REVEALED 01/17/2007) https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/entertainment/cameron-diaz-acting-career-scli-intl/index.html

https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2007/02/blind-items-revealed.html

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She can get a movie, anything if she wants.

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My question is who is her financial advisor. He/She must be a genius because Cameron hasn't made a movie that made money in like forever AND she's lived the high-life from what I can tell when she pops up in the media articles. It's not like she just took her money and bought cheap land in Montana to run a nursery for homeless wolverines, she's an avid beach bunny, pot smoker, and world traveler. You gotta fund that shit year in and year out.

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