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Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas, the voices behind the ‘Shrek’ spin-off ‘Puss in Boots’ were on hand in Cannes this morning to promote the new film.

The Washington Post gave an interesting interview this morning:

Getting older in Hollywood and being Hispanic, they are no longer the limitations they once were, say Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. After all, they wonder, when have Hispanic actors ever landed such big feline roles as the leads in the animated adventure “Puss in Boots”?

“When I started out, Hispanic roles were very limited,” Hayek said Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival, where she and Banderas joined DreamWorks Animation overseers to show off footage of “Puss in Boots,” a “Shrek” spinoff coming this November. “Roles were very limited. There were one or two kinds of characters you used to do. Now we get to play the cats! It’s OK to be a Hispanic, even if you are a cat.”

“Cats were British, normally,” Banderas added at a question-and-answer session alongside Hayek after the footage screened.

“I feel very proud, actually,” Banderas said of his role in expanding the types of parts open to Hispanic performers. “I never pretended when I first went to Hollywood to be a guy from Oklahoma. I am what I am. And fortunately, the Spanish community in the United States has grown in the last 22 years that I have been there. There has been an explosion in Hollywood, which is a reflection of the society in which we live.”

After the footage showed, Banderas and Hayek headed to a pier along the Mediterranean beach, where they posed for photos on a giant pair of boots bearing the movie’s title. Banderas reprises his voice role from the last three “Shrek” films, providing the voice of Puss in Boots, the tiny cat with the big heart, big ideas and bigger ego.

A prequel chronicling Puss’ adventures before meeting ogre Shrek, the movie has the cat as an outlaw, looking to pull off a big score. But his scheme is interrupted by another calculating cat, Kitty Softpaws (voiced by Hayek), who is in league with Puss’ pal-turned-foe Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis), as they try to swipe the magic beans of the “Jack and the Beanstalk” fairy tale from beastly bandits Jack and Jill (Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris).

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Victoria Beckham wears a gown of toilet paper – and tweets it!

The fashion queen was wrapped in toilet paper during a baby shower game over the weekend. The star-studded affair was hosted by her friends Eva Longoria and Ken Paves. She Tweeted prior to the shower that she had  “been told to wear something waterproof for my baby shower.”

“I’m very nervous!” she wrote. “Is waterproof chic or stylish is any way?”

The former Spice Girl tweeted a picture of herself, and friend Selma Blair in dresses made of toilet paper.

The luncheon, held at West Hollywood’s Petit L’Ermitage hotel was attended by more than 30 guests, including Demi Moore, Nicole Richie, Rachel Zoe and Tana Ramsay.

“Such a lovely day! Thank you so much Eva and Ken for being such wonderful friends,” Beckham wrote. “Baby showers are so much fun!”

Actress and preggo mommy-to-be Selma Blair enjoyed time with her beau Jason Bleic as they were spotted in Los Angeles, Calif., strolling arm-in-arm, getting some shopping in at Fred Segal on Melrose Ave. yesterday, April 28.

What are those? 6-inch heels?

Also pictured: Jamie-Lynn Sigler.

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Mom-to-be Selma Blair stepped out with boyfriend and fashion designer Jason Bleick at the Grove in Los Angeles today for some shopping.

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