Enjoyable reality of the day: Shrek did not all the time have a Scottish accent. In truth, the Shrek and love is totally completely different from the Shrek initially created — voice-wise. The late comic Chris Farley was purported to voice the position of Shrek, however sadly, he died of a coronary heart assault earlier than ending up recording for the movie. Mike Myers was requested to step in, and he re-recorded all the movie in 1999. In 2000, Mike was proven a draft of the film, however Mike had a fairly main problem with it: He did not like Shrek’s accent.
What accent did Shrek have, initially?
Shrek, performed by Mike Myers, had a Canadian accent, since Mike is initially from Scarborough, Canada. Earlier than Mike, Shrek had type of a light-weight New York-y sort accent that Chris Farley used generally (though Chris is definitely from Madison, Wisconsin). Based on CBR, on the final minute, Mike requested to re-do ALL of Shrek’s strains to offer him a Scottish accent, as a result of Mike’s unique voicing did not sit proper with him. Why precisely? Nicely, Mike wished Shrek’s persona to conflict with villain Lord Farquaad, who has a fancy English accent.
Mike wished a extra “working class” accent, and he determined that needs to be Scottish. The comic additionally thought Scottish would make Shrek sound extra weak, and that it was an excellent accent to have Shrek go from completely happy to indignant in a break up second, because the character was recognized to do. This edit price producers between $four and $5 million. Ultimately, it was clearly value it. Opening weekend alone, the primary Shrek film remodeled $42 million. Shrek 2 made $108 million throughout its opening weekend. Shrek the Third pulled in a whopping $121 million.
Whereas we do not have entry to Mike’s preliminary Shrek film (earlier than the accent change), we do have a clip from Chris Farley’s Shrek.
Completely completely different, proper? Somebody mashed up the 2 variations, which makes it appear much more bonkers that the Shrek we all know might have appeared like another person (we additionally love you, Chris, RIP).
If this has impressed you to rewatch Shrek, you are able to do so on Hulu with Dwell TV, or stream Shrek Ceaselessly After on Amazon Prime.
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