1/5/2024 0 Comments Michael myers actor interview![]() ![]() He goes to Lord Farquard who tells him, I'll get all the people out of your swamp, if you go and find this princess Fiona who I want for my bride. Then one day Lord Farquaad, that's John Lithgow, he sends all these fairy tale characters off to Shrek's swamp. And he's just like an ordinary guy, he just wants to have fun, and hang out. They think he's like automatically going to eat them, or poke them with sticks and stuff. Shrek lives by himself in a swamp, and he's sort of sick and tired of people pre-judging who he is and what he's like, just because he's an ogre. It was a completely new experience for me. They've done a really great job, I've never seen anything like it before. So I guess that's why they cast me! But they've made me into a storybook character that is so three dimensional. Shrek is this big, green, disgusting and oafish character. They like made Shrek into this person that isn't me, but that is kind of me. How did you connect to Shrek as a character? And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic. And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. ![]() So I have all these great memories and associations with those stories. Like because she's from Liverpool, Babar the elephant would be from Liverpool too. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. ![]() I have very happy memories of fairy tales. What got you interested in playing an animated character? I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him. So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. Then he brought it to Jeffrey Katzenberg at Dreamworks, and he got Dreamworks interested in it. One of the producers of the film, John Williams, got a hold of the book from his kids. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now. And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. When they told me about the movie and said that Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and John Lithgow were in it, I told them right away, I'm in. And when he died, they changed some of their ideas about the character. You're a natural as Shrek (2001), but I hear you weren't Dreamworks' first choice to be the ogre. The award winning comic actor also described the first time thrill of getting animated for a movie. Myers detailed in this interview the exhilarating experience of serving as vocal backup to the title character, and how he drew on magical childhood memories to put himself into the perfect state of mind for the part. In case you've forgotten the pain of Myers' prosthetic-laden foray into kids' comedy, we've made sure to include a clip that'll help you never forget again.Mike Myers may still be wondering what Dreamworks saw in him that reminded them so much of a stinky little green ogre, but he won't deny having a blast as Shrek (2001). Though if the stories about his personality didn't hurt his career to the point of near extinction, films like The Cat in the Hat and The Love Guru certainly didn't help. In particular, there were stories about how he had to "bury the hatchet" with the folks he made Wayne's World with, as he'd fought about the ultimate shape and vision of the film's final cut. ![]() Or people who need therapy.Īmy Hill's remarks about Mike Myers aren't all that terribly surprising, considering history has shown us that Myers is allegedly a bit of a control freak. Whenever he needed chocolate, he'd come running over and give him a chocolate. There was a guy who held his chocolates in a little Tupperware. People would come and then he'd stand there. He'd just be with his people and walk away. It was just a horrible, nightmarish experience. He had his handlers dress his trailer, and his area was all covered with tenting because he didn't want anybody seeing him. We would all be waiting for Mike Myers to come. I'd be there at the crack of dawn, waiting. He would come in and, I guess, be in hair and makeup. It's all because Mike Myers had exhibited some rather interesting behavior, which she recounts below: Kwan came up in the conversation, as Hill had named it as her most challenging and difficult experience when making a film. Club's Random Roles interview feature, character actor Amy Hill was quizzed on a select group of the roles that make up her varied resume. ![]()
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