Lotte Schwartz

Lotte Schwartz is the deuteragonist turned protagonist of the 1999 film, Being John Malkovich. She is portrayed by Cameron Diaz who voiced Princess Fiona in Shrek.
== Biography ==
Lotte Schwartz is an unhappy housewife who was married to an unsuccessful and neurotic puppeteer, Craig. Lotte puts most of her love and time into her pet chimpanzee, which she has sheltered and brought into the family as a kind of stand-in for a baby of her own. When her husband Craig finds a portal that puts them inside the head of actor John Malkovich for fifteen minutes, they become obsessed with the surreal, voyeuristic experience.
When Lotte first met Maxine (Craig’s co-worker and secret crush), she grew distant from Craig and fell in love with her instead. Maxine only loved her as John Malkovich. After Craig learns that Lotte fell in love with Maxine, he ended up tying her up and locking her inside the cage with her pet chimpanzee, and forcing her to trick Maxine that she’ll be entering the portal so that her husband could get the chance to be with her.
Eventually, the chimpanzee frees Lotte, and she immediately calls Maxine to tell her that Craig was the one on John Malkovich, much to Maxine’s shock, but is amazed that he was in there.
Lotte heartbroken visits Dr. Lester’s mansion to which she visited earlier in the film with Craig and learns the truth that Dr. Lester is Captain Mertin all along, and he discovered the portal since the building first opened. She also learns that when the vessel becomes riped on the host’s 44th birthday, the possessor would have to enter it before midnight (which means that the portal will move on to the next host), but if the possessor enters the vessel while the person is unborn, he or she would be absorbed, trapped, and forever doomed inside of a body without controlling it.
After learning about this, she warns Dr. Lester (Captain Mertin) that Craig has taken over John Malkovich. On John Malkovich’s 44th birthday, Lotte kidnaps Maxine along with Lester and their friends, and after Dr. Lester warns Craig that he’ll kill Maxine if he doesn’t leave John Malkovich, and Lester and the team needed the vessel so they could live longer, but Craig hangs up, refusing to leave Malkovich, (worrying that Maxine will leave him if he does.)
Lotte angrily tries to kill Maxine and chases after her in John Malkovich’s consciousness, until they’re released at New Jersey Turnpike. Maxine tells Lotte that she held on the baby for her since she got pregnant while Lotte was in John Malkovich, and they both get together.
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