An Addictive Role for Mila Kunis

Inspired by a true story, the gritty movie Four Good Days (available on demand May 21) is about a mother (Glenn Close) who tries to rescue her daughter (Kunis) from the depths of drug addiction, keeping her off heroin for four “good” days to become eligible for a new treatment. “I have lost friends to addiction, and I have friends currently in the process of struggling with it,” says Kunis, 37, who appears almost unrecognizable in the film, which is based on a 2016 article in the Washington Post. “You have to look a certain way to be a heroin addict, so I exercised and dieted over four months.”

Twenty years ago, on May 18, the animated film Shrek introduced us to an ornery green ogre (Mike Myers), his wisecracking donkey sidekick (Eddie Murphy) and their quest to rescue Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz). In honor of the milestone anniversary, here are some fun facts about one of our favorite fractured fairy tales.

Mike Myers replaced

Chris Farley, who died in 1997 before he finished voicing

Shrek’s dialogue. Myers originally recorded Shrek in his normal voice but later switched to a Scottish accent— at a cost of $4 million for re-recording.

XShrek won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

“I’m a Believer,” the last song in the movie, was chosen because of the line “I thought love was only true in fairy tales.”

The computer animation for Shrek took more than four and a half years to complete.

Shrek received his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in May 2010.