Who was your favorite fairy-tale princess?

Cameron: I didn’t have one.  I didn’t watch the fairy tales.

Were you a Barbie girl?

Cameron: No. I had Barbie’s because every girl does, but I always wanted to cut their hair (laughs).

Julie: I’m a huge ballet fan. For me, the loveliest princess is probably Sleeping Beauty because it’s such a glorious ballet and she’s such a nice princess. She’s ever so sweet.

She’s sleeping in this?

Julie: Believe, me I can identify with that.

Cameron: I did like Cinderella because I did like the idea of the glass slipper. I liked the slipper. It’s so sweet on the step…

I’ve got a little girl question… Now that you’ve had a chance to see the movie, can you step back and say who your favorite character is?

Julie: No, they’re great, all of them.

Cameron: My favorite is the Gingerbread Man. I fell in love with him in the first one (she goes into Gingerbread Man voice) No, no, not my gumdrop buttons!  I was like, I love you. (in regular voice, hastily) Who did it?  (in G.M. voice) The baker’s man. (She can’t recall what it is exactly). You know what I’m talking about. This is why I can’t speak another language.

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.

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.

Is Cameron in it?

Julie: No, she’ll be in part two. It goes till Mary Poppins, it’s all my early life.

What’s it called?

Julie: I haven’t finally decided so I’m not going to tell you.  I thought I had but then the publisher said, it’s a good title but … we’ll see.

I know what it should be…

Julie: What?

My favorite things.

Julie: Aww. No...

Have they talked about making any of your children’s books into movies?

Julie: Yes. There’s a lot of talk going on about them. As a matter of fact, two of them are being talked about as theater musicals. One of the little books is being done for children’s theaters across the country, which is lovely, and we’re working on that—songs and script, which my daughter and I are writing.

I saw you in “The Boyfriend” (stage play) in Boston. Will you be doing more?

Julie: I hope so. I had such a joyous time doing that. I loved it. It was like everything I ever learned in my whole life focused into what I might be able to pass on to these wonderful young kids.

Cameron, what are you working on?

Cameron:  I’m working on my hair color right at the moment. Just teasing. I am waiting to see exactly what I’ll be doing. I’m hoping one of the few things that I’m looking at will be sticking on the wall for the summer. So we’ll see.

Are you going to be returning to Charlie’s Angels?

Cameron: Not that I know of.

He said a few weeks ago that he’s doing it.

Cameron: Is he? Really? Wow! I’ve gotta call him up and see what’s going on. Maybe I’m not going to do it. No, I haven’t spoken to anybody about that.

Do either of you have summer plans?

Julie: I’ve been saying to Blake, can we just go away for a few weeks, because I’ve been so busy with my nose to the grindstone with the autobiography. As I said, I’m feeling slightly cross-eyed from concentrating.

You haven’t decided though?

Julie: No.

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.

Is there a deadline on your calendar that you are dreading?

Julie: Yeah. Like last week. It’s down to the wire.

What is the one quality Fiona has that you like most about?

Cameron: I like that she’s the anchor to all these crazy characters that swarm around her in this tribe called Shrek. She’s like the straight man.

Julie: She’s the glue.

Cameron: She’s the glue and she kind of guides it through. That’s why when I see her, and I hear Antonio and Eddie, they ad-lib a lot, but Fiona, I have a lot of alternate lines that I go with Fiona with. As Julie said, you do it a thousand different ways. You do it every which way but I feel like she’s the arrow that’s been shot and she everything else is sort of traveling with her so…

Any thoughts on Justin Timberlake’s performance?

Cameron: I think he’s fantastic.

Julie: He’s wonderful. He’s great.

Why do you think he was cast?

Cameron: I think Jeffrey Katzenberg had a crush on him for a really long time.  (she laughs)

Julie: I know I did.

Cameron: You remember in the first Shrek, there was this Sir Justin poster over Fiona’s bed. I had nothing to do with that. That was something that Jeffrey had in his mind for a while.

Julie: They take any aspect of life and tweak it the tiniest bit.

Cameron: It’s great. It’s fun. It’s really appropriate.

Julie: Obviously, they do their homework one way or another.

Have they asked you for Shrek 4 yet?

Julie:  Oh, if they do…

Cameron: I’m in it.  I’m there. I’ll buy a ticket.

(just to be clear… the way Cameron said her answer was not meant to say she had signed on, but that she’d be willing to come back to the series.)