Cameron Diaz looked weighted down with concern as she vanished into her character for her upcoming movie Bad Day.

The 53-year-old was once a top glamour queen in 2000s Hollywood, counted among the starriest A-list clients of the celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe, who reigned supreme at the time.

Following her appearance in the unsuccessful Annie remake in 2014, she took a long hiatus but made a comeback with this year’s comedy, Back in Action.

Now she’s diving into another endeavor, a tale about a single mother enduring her worst day but still determined to keep a promise to her daughter.

This week, she was spotted on set in New Jersey, dressed simply in a flannel shirt, faded jeans, and an olive green anorak, carrying a bag over her shoulder.

In one seen that she filmed at the wheel of a car, the Charlie’s Angels blonde had a fraught expression plastered across her face.

Cameron Diaz looked weighted down with concern as she vanished into her character for her upcoming movie Bad Day

Bad Day will be reminiscent of 1993 Michael Douglas drama Falling Down but with a comedic twist, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Directed by Joel Schumacher and featuring Robert DuVall, Falling Down had Michael starring as a man who snaps in Los Angeles traffic on the way to his daughter’s birthday, abandons his car, and goes on a violent rampage.

Cameron’s final film before stepping back from Hollywood was the 2014 Annie adaptation, where she portrayed the villainous orphanage head Miss Hannigan, a role famously played by Carol Burnett in the 1982 movie of the Broadway production.

After that movie, Cameron devoted her focus to her personal life, marrying Good Charlotte frontman Benji Madden in 2015 after a 10-month romance.

They have since started a family together, welcoming their firstborn daughter Raddix in 2019 and then a son called Cardinal last year. 

In 2020 amid her long hiatus, Cameron  she left the movies to ‘focus on my personal life’ and ‘become self-sufficient again’ as ‘actors are infantilized’ in Hollywood. 

The major life change allowed to to find ‘peace in my soul because I was finally taking care of myself,’ Cameron told Gwyneth Paltrow in an interview for Goop.

She felt ‘grounded and light’ after her departure from the movies. as ‘it’s so intense to work at that level and be that public and put yourself out there.’

In one seen that she filmed at the wheel of a car, the Charlie’s Angels blonde had a fraught expression plastered across her face

She was seen on set in New Jersey this week in a simple costume of a flannel shirt, faded jeans and an olive green anorak with a bag slung over her shoulder

Her comeback movie was this year’s Netflix action comedy Back in Action, which reunited her with her Annie co-star Jamie Foxx.

It was during the filming of Back in Action that Jamie suffered a brain bleed that ultimately led to a stroke and infamously landed him in the hospital.

‘For every person who knows Jamie, it was terrifying,’ Cameron told Extra at the movie’s Berlin premiere this January. 

‘For everybody who loves Jamie, the world, everybody was concerned. I can’t even imagine how he feels,’ added the Charlie’s Angeles bombshell.

With a cast that includes Andrew Scott, Glenn Close and Kyle Chandler, the movie was savaged by the critics but got more than 45 million views in three days.

Cameron got good notices, with Roger Ebert’s old TV co-star Richard Roeper writing in the Chicago Sun-Times that she ‘hasn’t lost an ounce of onscreen charisma.’