{"id":376704,"date":"2026-04-01T15:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/376704\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:57:54","slug":"cameron-diaz-confirms-shell-return-as-princess-fiona-in-shrek-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/376704\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Diaz confirms she&#8217;ll return as princess Fiona in Shrek 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next summer, we&#8217;re finally set to reunite with Shrek, his family, and his quirky friends for the first time in 17 years (Shrek Forever After premiered in 2010). After all this time, a lot has obviously happened in the ogre&#8217;s life, and the kids are now older.<\/p>\n<p>We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/zendaya-joins-the-cast-of-shrek-5-1505583\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">already know<\/a> that Zendaya will play Felicia, while Skyler Gisondo (whom we recently saw as Jimmy Olsen in the latest Superman) and Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/skyler-gisondo-joins-cast-of-shrek-5-as-one-of-shreks-sons-1641283\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">voice the twins<\/a> Fergus and Farkle. Now another role has been officially confirmed, and it&#8217;s perhaps a slightly less surprising one that most people probably expected, but no less delightful to have confirmed by the actress herself.<\/p>\n<p>When Cameron Diaz appeared on Jimmy Fallon&#8217;s talk show The Tonight Show this week, she took the opportunity to confirm that she&#8217;s returning as Princess Fiona in Shrek 5, where we already know that both Mike Myers (Shrek) and Eddie Murphy (Donkey) will also reprise their iconic roles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-1700893-4485863\" data-fullsize=\"\/media\/58\/_4485863b.jpg\" data-lazy=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.euhttps:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/media\/58\/_4485863_650x.jpg\" width=\"650\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; gallery_openmodal('1700893','4485863',false,'4ba9c4cbc9d4bc70794e3ba598e0ece6');\" height=\"366\" alt=\"Shrek 5\" class=\"rwd_col_content lazy\" data-cf-modified-6b112cc7fd7ee74e46afb80a-=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next summer, we&#8217;re finally set to reunite with Shrek, his family, and his quirky friends for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-376704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}