PureMovies.co.uk had the chance to sit down with Justin Timberlake for the second time in as many months to talk about his good reviews, his upbringing and Shrek the Third.

Pure Movies: You got increasingly good reviews here on the website for your work in Black Snake Moan and Alpha Dog. Where do you see your career taking off in terms of film and music?

Justin Timberlake: It has been expensive buying those reviews so I don’t know how much longer I can hold that up…thank God for music (laughs). I would love to do a lot more film and next year I am going to focus a lot more on it but, as you alluded to, I’ll be touring until the end of this year and taking that circus as far as I can.

PM: So, where does all this leave time to write songs?

JT: Airplanes and tour buses? Actually that’s a really good point…I don’t know. I’ll have to figure that out.

PM: Now onto Shrek the Third. Were you a loner at school like your character Arthur or did you belong to a particular group?

JT: Well, I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don’t do anything at all. So, I was a bit of a loner being that I was interested in music when I was growing up.

PM: How did you find acting in a booth with headphones?

JT: As far as that goes, the only thing that I can really equate this to is actually when you’re seven or eight years old and you’re standing alone in your backyard and you have a stick and to you it’s a huge sword. You are King Arthur. When I first got offered the part I got to see what Artie looked like so I’m sitting in this booth and just imagining it happening and you just go for it. I had the first two films to work from. It is fantastical…anything can happen in the Shrek world.

PM: Arthur gets the better of his bullies in the film. Is that something you can relate to?

JT: Erm…what are you trying to insinuate?! I was so cool (laughs). Okay no…but, like I said before, in Tennessee it’s football or die. I was on a TV show when I was in middle school and I would work six months out of the year. So, when I came back to Tennessee, I was a bit of an outcast. I wasn’t bullied too much.

PM: So, what would you say now to the people who didn’t think you were cool?

JT: What would I say to them now? Na-nana-na-na-na…eat it.

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