Shrek 3 Podcast Interview with Julie Andrews and Cameron Diaz (2007)
Channel: The Julie Andrews Archive
Date: 2020-01-06

(This Interview can be found at collider.com. Scroll down for the link.)



Cameron Diaz and Julie Andrews Interviewed – SHREK THE THIRD
BY STEVE 'FROSTY' WEINTRAUB (MAY 6, 2007) 



[...] During the roundtable interview we covered all the usual things and both Cameron and Julie were extremely friendly and genuinely seemed happy to be there promoting the movie. [...]

Q: Julie, did they tell you you’d be butting down walls with your head?
Julie: No, and I was thrilled, it was like, ‘Oh, thank you.’ [...]

Q: You do a little bit of humming of some tunes that might be familiar.
Julie: It’s funny how many people pick up on that. (Everyone laughs) Really, it is. I just love the fact that does this head butt twice and it makes her slightly delirious. I love that slight satire.  [...]

Q: Do each of you believe in happily ever after or is that just a myth?
Julie: I do, I think I do, I think happily ever after probably comes from here first (points inside), and how much two people want to do happily ever after, depending as you say what it is. We’re both so blessed. How could it not be happily ever after? [...]

Q: Julie, as a classically trained actress, do you have misgivings about being in a movie that has fart jokes?
Julie: No, are you kidding? I live with a guy that writes them all the time in his movies. 

Q: What are you working on now?
Julie: You know I have a book in print, publishing imprint of children’s books. I’ve been working very hard on that. I had a book just come out. Number 3. Not necessarily mine, but that I’ve been responsible for, coming out this year. Also, I’m working on my autobiography, which will come out next April. I’m on such a deadline. I feel slightly cross-eyed. [...]

Q: What was it that made you want to do it? You said during Princess Diaries you weren’t sure about writing your autobiography?
Julie: I don’t know. The company that asked me, Hyperion, sweetly and doggedly after me for about 10 years now, will you, will you, will you? And I finally said yes. I don’t know if I can, but I’ll try. They gave me a very small down payment and I’ve been trying to give it back to them ever since. But they won’t accept it back. So I guess I wasn’t very smart. Then, of course, deadlines kept going by so now it’s a question of OK. They did a very smart thing. You know I write with my daughter and they said will you keep your mother at it. Will you start interviewing her? So she’s been a tremendous help. She’s been helping me focus and does a lot of the research. You can’t imagine how much research there is.
Cameron: On your own life life…
Julie: When you’re writing it, it’s like what was the theater where we rehearsed in? I think it was that, but was it? Then you have to run the data. Did I send the dog home ahead of time or did I travel with it? I don’t’ remember.

Q: Is there a deadline on your calendar that you are dreading?
Julie: Yeah. Like last week. It’s down to the wire. [...]



Source: https://collider.com/cameron-diaz-and-julie-andrews-interviewed-shrek-the-third/