Nicolas Cage has done it all. He's been an action star, a superhero, and a voice actor. The Oscar-winning actor has had such an enviable career in Hollywood that he doesn't even think twice about the time he missed out on one of the most iconic comedy roles of all time.

Everyone knows Mike Myers as the voice of Shrek, but in an alternate timeline, Cage is the world's favorite ogre. When directors Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson adapted "Shrek" from a 1990s children's book , they knew they needed a top-notch performer in the lead role. The actor playing Shrek needed to be equally good at getting laughs and sympathy from the audience, and they considered several different performers for the role. Famously, Chris Farley voiced Shrek in test footage before his death in 1997, but the filmmaker

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