It was around this time that she and Matt Dillon parted ways; their very public relationship was at an end. Perhaps learning her lesson the hard way, she kept her subsequent romance with actor Jared Leto - which apparently led to an engagement that was broken off in 2001 - out of public view. On screen, she tackled perhaps her most challenging role to date in "Being John Malkovich" (1999), donning a frizzy brown mane of hair that rendered her nearly unrecognizably frumpy. Diaz played the wife of a puppeteer (John Cusack) who discovers a mysterious portal that allows anyone to spend 15 minutes inside Malkovich's mind and body. Once again, Diaz built a funny persona out of seemingly contradictory parts and proved her versatility. Adopting a more serious pose, she rounded out the millennium in Oliver Stone's "Any Given Sunday" (1999), playing the new owner of a flailing NFL team who is more concerned with making big money than with the health of her players. Continuing to stretch her talents, Diaz successfully undertook a challenging role as a blind woman with an active social life in the female ensemble of "Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her" (2000).
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