Exclusive: Cameron Diaz In Talks For Key Marvel Cinematic Universe Role
Our trusted and proven sources say that Cameron Diaz is being wooed by Marvel, but what character could she be up for?
Update March 2023: With the Fantastic Four: First Steps casted, it does not appear Cameron Diaz will be in the movie.
We are too excited about this one to even bury the lede at all: Cameron Diaz may be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe soon. According to our trusted and proven sources, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is a huge Cameron Diaz fan (as are all people of good and true heart) and has been eager for years to get her into Marvel somewhere. The news of her recent Jay-Z-like return from retirement has apparently kicked plans into gear and word is that Cameron Diaz is up for a pivotal role in Marvel’s future.
“Pivotal role” can mean a lot of things, especially in this particular phase of the MCU. Since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame essentially wrapped things up for the whole Infinity Saga era of Marvel, there has been some vagueness as to where things were heading. While there have been some suggestions that Cameron Diaz would work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Lady Death, that wouldn’t make a whole ton of sense.
While that particular character is indeed an important one in Marvel Comics, she has typically been associated with Thanos and his quest for the Infinity Stones (in the ultimate incel move of getting fancy things for someone who doesn’t care about you). Given that Thanos has already been done and dusted in the MCU and bringing him back to life with a new motivation for rehashing the same quest would thematically diminish the emotional impact of essentially all the MCU movies up until then. Similarly, if she were brought in as Lady Death without a Thanos connection, fans would be asking, hey, what about Thanos? Thus we do not think Cameron Diaz is being wooed as Marvel’s Lady Death. Instead, we think it is going to be Emma Frost.
When Disney acquired 20th Century Fox in 2019, they finally the rights back to some valuable Marvel Comics property, notably the Fantastic Four and the entire X-Men roster. There have already been a few brief appearances by characters from those franchises (notably John Krasinski’s Reed Richards and Patrick Stewart as Professor X in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), but how Marvel is going to introduce the X-Men as a whole is still unknown. Emma Frost is one of the most important characters in the X-Men comics, primarily as a villain and would make sense as one of the big guns to bring out early.
Cameron Diaz would be perfect as the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Emma Frost (also known as the White Queen). For one thing, she is a dead ringer for the character’s icy blonde beauty. For another, she is a master of the kind of sultry seductiveness that Frost is known for in addition to her psychic abilities and diamond form. And for another, she could bring the necessary star power to a role that requires imperiousness and glamour in equal measure.
Whenever the X-Men are brought into the Marvel Cinematic Universe proper, it is going to be a pretty big deal. It makes sense that they would be trying to recruit some of the biggest stars in the world for roles as the world’s most feared and hated superheroes (and villains). Cameron Diaz as Emma Frost would absolutely be a ringer.
