Diaz and ‘Shrek’ pals share fairy-tale talk

Diaz: It’s amazing when I go into interviews. Yesterday, there were at least three or four people who said, “What’s it like playing such an ugly character?” I’m like, “What are you talking about? I think she’s beautiful.” It’s shocking to me that that’s the perception, just because she’s big and round. I think she’s lovely. Her body is everything that she is inside. I love that she is the princess who isn’t like all the other princesses. She doesn’t look like them, and she’s just as beloved and accepted.

Sedaris: Doesn’t she have knobs coming out of her neck?

Diaz: She does have the ears. I was worried that she might actually have like rows of teats, because she’s having a litter. It was a little fantasy of her like, laying on her side and having little baby legs sticking out.

AP: Are you all game for a fourth “Shrek” movie, and what do you hope your characters might be doing?

Oteri: Staying awake. Getting some dialogue. They’re like, “Cheri, you don’t say much in this movie,” and I’m like, “I didn’t know that.” But I’d love to do it again.

Rudolph: I feel like I botched my chance to do it again, because my character is such a jerk.

Poehler: No, it just made her interesting.

Rudolph: She needs to come back and make amends.

Poehler: And she needs to get a new wig.

AP: Amy, what would Cinderella be doing in the next movie?

Sedaris: Oh, gosh. Probably living alone, a junked-up junkie.

Diaz: We’ll all do an intervention.

Sedaris: Can you imagine Cinderella going, “You’re the one with the problem! You are! You’re the one with the problem!”

Diaz: I’m ready for “Shrek 18,” if they haven’t killed Fiona off by then.

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