"In nature, beauty is about being healthy and strong. The arms are actually perfectly toned and her skin is fantastically flawless. "I always find it so funny when people say: 'You guys must hate each other now.' It's like: 'No.' Our paths just went like that." There's no reason for us not to be friends. "We're very friendly, we're friends," she says. Turns out she still loves Timberlake, whom she separated from in January after a four-year relationship. I just love being active - I love surfing." "I love spending time with myself and the people I love. "I also have an amazing family and group of people who I care about. "The girls who are currently 21 have to deal with the media, but for me there wasn't the same attention, so I had a bit of leeway to develop my relationship with celebrity. When I was 21, it was a totally different scene," she says. "I never had the ambition to be an actor. She went on to win critical acclaim for her performance in Being John Malkovich and gained a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Golden Globes and joined the £20 million club after receiving this salary for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle following successes with, among others There's Something About Mary, My Best Friend's Wedding and Gangs Of New York. The four-times-nominated Golden Globe actress started acting at 21 when she was "quite by chance" cast as the female lead in the Jim Carrey film The Mask. I'm in it for the ride, baby."ĭiaz's phenomenal career is the stuff of fairytales. ![]() "If you asked me at 11 years old, do I want to be an actor, and told me that this would be my life right now, I'd have been: 'Are you kidding?' I couldn't have fathomed. I cannot wait to see where I go next and where I end up. "Everyone has a different journey in life," she says with the sort of patience that would make Princess Fiona proud. Princess Fiona is also expecting a baby in Shrek The Third and looking forward to motherhood. "In life you have to be steadfast and know yourself well enough to make decisions and stick by them," continues Diaz. "Princess Fiona is strong and I think I'm a pretty strong person - I'll give myself plenty of credit for that. Now, though, I'm trying not to giggle as the Shrek The Third PR show rolls on. We try to create a fantasy that is believable." ![]() "Technologically, this movie has taken a huge leap," director Mike Miller tells me in another luxury hotel and suite. Thanks to advances in technology - or what the production team prefer to call a new "stylised reality" - you almost feel the material of the fabric in Princess Fiona's dress. Shrek The Third opened to mixed reviews in the States.īack-patting aside, the animation is brilliant. The original Shrek won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2002 and the Shrek franchise has grossed £700 million at the box office. I loved all of that, but flawed personalities are out now." ![]() "What I was attracted to by this career was that kind of shadowy fame. "She is an ogre and she is a princess." She's also an animated cartoon.Ī few cushioned footsteps away, Prince Charming continues to ad-lib. I try to connect her experience to my own to understand her better - but it is her experience. "I have a great deal of patience and share her ideals about living. I understand her and understand her patience. "I know Princess Fiona now after making three movies. "I love making movies," she smiles, such a sugary, princessy smile. "It's a real privilege to be a part of the Shrek legacy," she simpers as the scribes scribble and one rather ancient tape recorder turns itself off.ĭiaz waits for the tape to be turned over. ![]() Horror of horrors, Diaz is ten minutes late.Įventually, she wafts in looking every inch the star in high, white stilettos and the sort of skinny leg jeans that only the leggiest fairytale princess in the land can pull off. "You go in five or six times in the course of two years wherever you want to in the world and they just hook you up via satellite," says Everett.Ī few yards of plush carpet away in a separate swish suite, four lucky scribes are waiting expectantly for an audience with Princess Fiona.īut, oh dear, the carefully PR- ed show in luxury hotel-land is not running to time. "I think of Shrek as a golden handshake in a career. Once upon a time in luxury hotel-land, everyone's favourite ogre Shrek lumbers about the foyer of the Dorchester Hotel, posing happily for men-in-black with cameras - much to the bemusement of the five-star establishment's Manolo-heeled clientele.Ī few floors above him, Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), Prince Charming (Rupert Everett), Puss-in-Boots (Antonio Banderas) and Shrek The Third addition Artie (Justin Timberlake) speak of their hero's true wondrousness.Īll, that is, except for naughty Prince Charming who seems to be, well - er, making up the script as he goes along.
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