Christina Ricci on seeing Penelope as a fairy tale:

"Well, I think I always thought we were making a fairy tale. But it was a modern day fairy tale... I felt that this movie was actually an excellent opportunity for me to do a different kind of acting than I’ve done before. We did the table read through and it kind of struck me that this could easily be an animated film. So then I thought, 'Well, maybe I’ll have the same physicality that you would see in sort of Disney animation?' And because I’ll have my face as somebody else’s, actually something else, and the scarf and everything, I found that using that sort of style really worked and was really fun and it made everything else fall into line for me."

Ricci on the first time she saw herself with the nose:

"It was funny, but there was no big reaction. It’s a prosthetic; it’s going to come off. I thought it was going to be smaller, but whatever."

Ricci on the challenges of wearing the pig nose:

"It would bubble up a little bit, which I know is just gross. The plastic part would get little air bubbles and Scott [Steindorff] would constantly be coming in and popping them. You couldn’t sneeze. There were certain expressions that if I did them, the top would probably have come undone. So you try to be helpful and not do that."

On riding the Vespa with Reese Witherspoon:

"It was sort of odd because she flew in the day after she won her Oscar. And then maybe two days after that we’re on a process trailer on the back of a Vespa and I’m wearing - out of context - this somewhat ridiculous coat and scarf and she’s got the dorky helmet on, and the whole gear. We’re not really driving a Vespa, we’re just riding on the back of a trailer and there were people all over London. We were going through London streets and they were yelling, ‘Reese! That’s Reese Witherspoon,' and honking. It was hilarious. I was just like, 'This is amazing. 72 hours ago you were dressed in a gown and holding a gorgeous golden Oscar and now you’re being totally made fun of on a Vespa through the streets of London.'"

Ricci and her thoughts on the upcoming Speed Racer:

"Speed Racer is awesome. We saw 15 minutes of it at the end of shooting and everybody was so excited. It looks like nothing you’ve ever seen before and it’s emotionally kind of resonant. It has this very strong storyline about family and integrity. It was the most fun movie to make. It was so much fun, we were playing all day."

Christina Ricci on working with Chim-Chim:

"The first day of shooting, my first ever scene in the whole movie, and I’m afraid of monkeys. I’m scared of them. But I had decided I’m being silly, 'Don’t be afraid of the monkey, no one else is. Everyone else thinks it’s awesome, so just be cool.' So it’s a kitchen scene and I go in and sit down and the monkey is sitting right next to me and, of course, something happens during the take and it freaks out and runs over and grabs my left breast and will not let go. I was like, ‘This thing is going to rip its hand away without letting go and I will no longer have a boob there.' I was so freaked out. And the rest of the actors, all of the other family members, are turned around looking at the front door. So no one sees that this has happened to me. And I was like, ‘Help’ as quietly as possible, because I didn’t want to freak it out any further. But they finally got it off of me, so my fear was completely validated and I did not go near him for the rest of the shoot. I also felt strangely like - anytime I had to wear something shiny and I had a lot of brightly colored clothes, I feel like I really don’t want to walk by the monkey cage, because I’m scared that this will be somehow attractive to him."