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(FIONA EXCLAIMING)
(GASPING)
Man, that was annoying!
Fiona is sort of this firecracker of a princess.
She's the combination of strength, humor and sophistication.
I want what any princess wants,
to live happily ever after.
And she's irreverent, as a fairy tale princess.
Fiona!
ARON WARNER: Fiona's a princess who can fight,
who can make a joke or take a joke.
(BURPING)
Better out than in.
She's got a good sense of humor
and kind of a bad singing voice.
(SINGING IN HIGH-PITCHED VOICE)
I think she's perfect. She's the perfect princess.
With Fiona, she's sort of always been
sort of the anchor of all the films.
Fiona's not really sort of the humorous part of the story, usually.
I guess she's more of the grounding force,
and everybody around her is kind of, like, swirling around.
And she's always kind of holding them all down.
Because Shrek is the one that's sort of really learning the lessons,
her role is to sort of be able to teach Shrek.
I always thought that I rescued you from The Dragon's Keep.
It was you that rescued me.
Sir Shrek. (CLEARING THROAT)
I pray that you take this favor as a token of my gratitude.
We were incredibly lucky with Cameron,
because we got her right before Something About Mary hit.
And, probably, had we tried to get her after that,
she would have been completely unavailable.
And she was just perfet for the role of Fiona.
I mean, in every way, Cameron is the modern-day equivalent of a princess.
(LAUGHING)
If there's a princess out there,
alive and well today, it's Cameron Diaz to me.
She is just the most likable and lovable.
Cameron is feisty, but swe
and yet she can do karate like nobody else.
She can turn on that tough edge and deliver it.
ADAMSON: You what you're g to get with
She's very unaffected by her celebrity.
Which is perfect for who the princess is,
because we want, you know, in Fiona,
we want this person who knows she has to try and be this celebrity princess.
But at her heart, she's the real, kind of, girl-next-door kind of person.
We have a great moment in the movie where we needed Fiona to do this belch
that was as good as anything Shrek could do.
We didn't have Cameron do that belch in particular.
We just happened to get a couple while we were recording.
She'd just be there recording, and she'd take a gulp of water,
and the next thing, this belch would come out.
We'd go, "Thank you very much. We're going to use that."
She's a very natural, relaxed person,
so she really is, I think, at heart, who Fiona is.
(BELCHES)
Thanks.
This is how it's done.
One take, and we're done.
This is our job. We get to come in here and act like fools
and say the most ridiculous things
and make the most ridiculous noises
and, you know, laugh and share
and create something with one another that we're proud of.
Fiona, really,
was supposed to start as the iconic princess.
And she did.
She went from the very pneumatic, very idealized princess
to something entirely different
and much more, sort of, real.
We wanted her when she wa, you know, quote,
"beautiful Fiona," to be real and accessible.
There's an arrow in your butt!
What?
Oh, would you look at that?
At one time, we were trying to make her very princess-y,
aying with
balletic moves and that sort of thing.
And we quickly realized she wasn't that much fun like that.
She needed to be moe of a real character.
I think that a lot of what I did was just go,
"Well, I sit like this, so she can sit like this.
"And I pick my teeth, so she can pick her teeth."
And she'll still be a female.
It'll be okay. You don't have to over-feminize her.
She'll still be a good princess, a good female character,
without going too far.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
It was this character, this person, that didn't look anything like me
like the light behind the ee in the character
and the way she carried herself
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ally
You must know how it goes.
A princess locked in a tower and beset by a dragon
is rescued by a brave knight,
and then they share true love's first kiss.
DIAZ: She's been locked in this tower for some time by herself,
so she's not really socially capable of, like, relating to people.
So, she has a bit of a princess attitude about everything.
You should sweep me off my feet,
out yonder window and down a rope onto your valiant steed.
You've had a lot of time to plan this, haven't you?
DIA a
and sor this id she hopes t
You can tell Lord Farquaad that if he wants to rescue me properly,
I'll be waiting for him right here.
When Shrek first meets Fiona, he just thinks, "Stuck-up princess.
"I don't want to have anything to do with her.
"I'll just take her back to Farquaad,
"get my swamp back and get on with my life."
What he's not prepared for is the fact that there's a whole other side to Fiona.
She's only really playing the part of the princess
because she thinks that's what people expect of her.
She has a whole other side. She's an independent, strong young woman.
And she has to learn to let her real self out.
What I found interesting about her is that she judged herself so harshly.
She loved and accepted Shrek for who he was.
She learned about him, but at the same time, she was still judging herself
and not giving herself the chance that she gave Shrek.
But, Donkey, I'm a princess,
and how is meant to look.
Little by little throughout the movie, she learns to accept herself
in watching Shrek accept himself.
He's completely at ease with his own inadequacies and absurdities
about what he looks like and everything.
That is something that she ends up learning a little bit from him.
I'm supposed to be beautiful.
But you are beautiful.
WARNER: Fiona, she was the iconic princess,
who then we had to peel away the layers throughout the four movies
of who this person really is.
And in a lot of ways, her evolution is really kind of extraordinary,
because in the fourth film, you get to see what she would have become
had she been raised in a different situation,
had she made different decisions along the way.
I guess I must have kicked him harder than I thought.
And the inner strength that she has that's shown throughout all the films
really comes out in a big way.
So, in the fourth Shrek,
that idea and thought about a lot of what-if questions.
"What if Shrek never met Fiona? What would that be like?"
In this alternate reality,
S Ogre Resistance Movement.
And Shrek's job is to convince her
that Shrek is Fiona's true love.
He has to do it all over again.
True love didn't get me out of that tower.
I did. I saved myself.
MIKE MITCHELL: Fiona has always been confident,
but it's been in a different way.
She's a mother, and it's not easy to take care of three ogre babies.
But in this world,
she's focused all that energy into taking care of ogre-kind.
She's there to protect and serve her people, her ogres.
Fiona, she's been to the gym.
She's been to the gym.
Fiona has clearly been doing squats,
and it's a new world.
Nice moves.
What I loved about Fiona as a warrior is I love her strut.
She has a strut.
She walks out, and she is strutting it.
She's like, "I am bad.
"I am bad. Do not mess with me."
Fiona's always been empowered, since we first met her.
She's been on quite a journey.
But this is the one time that, instead of hiding her ogre side,
like she did in part one, well, now she's hiding her princess side.
She doesn't want to shw any kind of weakness.
So, I thought Cameron had a lot of fun with finding this inner strength
that was even more than we've seen from Fiona before.
She's found a power within herself
that made her capable of doing something really great.
That's your wife?
That's my wife.
Well, I see who wears the chainmail in your family.
I think that everyone knows that Fiona is capable of those things,
whether or not she's on her own or if she has her true love.
So, when she's with Shrek, she is also that woman.
She's doing it as a mother warrior
rather than an actual warrior.
(EXCLAIMING)
When I first met her when she was just this young princess trapped in a tower,
and I watch how she's grown over the last four films
and how much responsibility she's taken on,
what a wonderful mother she's become,
what a wonderful partner she's become,
it's really been, not just a pleasure,
but an honor to be able to represent her.
What did you wish for?
That every day could be like this one.
Come here, you.