Cameron Diaz is being praised after a resurfaced clip of her shutting down a journalist’s “micro-aggression” against rapper Nicki Minaj went viral on TikTok. For reference, Cameron and Nicki worked together on the 2014 movie The Other Women, which was also the rapper’s live-action acting debut.
In the clip, which was filmed on a red carpet, the reporter begins her interview with Cameron by asking: “How terrifying is Nicki Minaj in real life?”
“Oh my god, not at all,” Cameron immediately replies. “She’s the sweetest. She came to our set and she was so fantastic, she was so prepared, she was so dynamic. She delivered literally like this, like, immediately, and we were like: ‘Right on!’”
But the journalist wasn’t deterred by Cameron’s wholly positive response, and without acknowledging anything that Cameron had said, she goes on to ask: “What’s her bum like in real life?”
“I don’t know if I need to be commenting on that!” Cameron exclaims. “She’s a beautiful woman, I’ll tell you that. She’s dead stunning, drop-dead gorgeous. So beautiful.”
While several years old, the interview was recently posted to TikTok, where it has racked up more than half a million views, thousands of likes, and hundreds of comments — with many viewers taking the time to praise Cameron for how she handled the inappropriate questions.
Kate Upton and Leslie Mann also starred in The Other Woman, and in a promotional video for the movie, which was filmed with Yahoo Celeb UK in 2014, Kate acknowledged that Nicki was “overwhelmed” on set.
Nicki only worked on one other live-action movie after The Other Woman, and that is the 2016 comedy Barbershop: The Next Cut, for which she was nominated for an acting Teen Choice Award.
You can watch Cameron’s red-carpet interview here — let me know your thoughts in the comments below!