It must be nice, Steve, to finally be in a movie you can take your kids to.
CARELL: Are you kidding? I can't even say the title of The 40-Year-Old Virgin if my daughter, who is now 5, is anywhere within earshot. But for the next couple of months and possibly the entire summer, I am very, very cool in her eyes. She thinks the fact that I can burp my ABC's is maybe the greatest talent anyone could ever possibly have.
Wanda, as we understand it, you don't really like kids.
SYKES: Let's just say I am not particularly a fan. But you know, as I get older and my friends start to have them, I am beginning to mind them less and less. There are a couple of them that I have met that I actually even like. The thing is, I always can leave. They can yell "Aunt Wanda!" and jump all over me, and then I can go home and have a drink.
You never met while making Over the Hedge, did you?
SYKES: We didn't meet until we started working on Evan Almighty [a sequel to Bruce Almighty, due out next summer]. But I've loved watching Steve work. He just brings it every take. It means I have to work hard and that is really getting on my nerves.
CARELL: All so extremely true. I am very good.
Is it bizarre to see yourselves transformed into adorable woodland creatures?
SYKES: They caught some of my mannerisms to make the voice look like it belonged in [skunk] Stella's mouth.
CARELL: From what I understand, I was cast primarily because I look like a squirrel.
Wanda, this skunk of yours seduces a cat. Are you for or against interspecies dating?
SYKES: I'm against it. Yeah, I have had hard times, but I try to stick to the human race. Though I must say there are a lot of cute animals out there.
CARELL: They have no verbal skills, so they don't speak.
SYKES: Actually, I consider that a plus.
CARELL: A lot of them don't have opposable thumbs.
SYKES: Now that is a problem.
CARELL: It certainly makes hand-holding at the movies difficult.
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