No one could have predicted the cultural impact Shrek had on the audience — and the least on the directors.
Vicky Jenson, one of the directors of the first one Shrek film, admits that the film’s praise was a “big surprise” to her and the team.
“I felt very small because it was a tight team,” she says in an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE, noting much of the production on Shrek not made at the Glendale DreamWorks Animation studio. “We felt like we were alone a lot of the time.”
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“It really wasn’t until a few sequences started coming back in the light, and we were watching full projections, [that we] were saying, ‘Wow, this. This is different,’ she continues. “This could work very well or not at all.”
It wasn’t until the film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival that Jenson and the rest of the DreamWorks team realized yes Shrek was a film that could make serious waves.
The story of Shrek and the shark.
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After release in 2001. Shrek was one of the highest-grossing films at the box office that year, usurped by Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The animated film received critical acclaim and international recognition, inspiring several sequels (s Shrek 5 it is already confirmed to be in the works).
The film franchise continued to thrive, even inspiring a “Shrek Rave” for fans of the film’s lively beats to meet and dance together. In 2020 Shrek it was selected as one of 25 films to be preserved in the Library of Congress alongside a Christopher Nolan film. The dark knight.
Jenson was one of five different directors attached to the film at one point or another, although she and Andrew Adamson were the final co-directors credited with the film’s completion.
Although Adamson continued to work with Shrek franchise, direction Shrek 2 and Shrek the ThirdJenson left the franchise after the first film.
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“I was busy The story of the shark for Shrek 2 and the beginning [Shrek the Third]”, says Jenson. “[The films] were in really good hands, and I was just moving on to other other arenas.”
The story of the sharkanother DreamWorks film that was released in 2004, may not have made as big a mark on animation as Shrek franchise is, but Jenson admits he thinks the film is “a little underrated.”
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“The Story of the Sea” from 2004.
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“It was so much fun working with that cast as well,” she says The story of the sharkwhich features the voice acting of Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Jack Black and Martin Scorsese.
Jenson’s latest directorial venture, bewitched, is another animated family film, which was released on Netflix on November 22.
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The director says she has no plans to return to Far Far Away as a development Shrek 5 is ongoing, although she says that “the spirit of the original is still present in them Shrek.”
“I’m very curious, just like everyone else, to see the heel,” she says. “It’s like watching your kid graduate from high school and go to college and then graduate from college and get married — it’s like, it’s not up to me anymore. This is your life, you know?”
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