Chris Farley Was Going to Play Shrek, and Now You Can Hear It

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It's been almost two decades since Chris Farley passed away at the age of 33; in 2001, four years after his death, a little movie called Shrek took over America. The titular green ogre was voiced by Mike Myers doing a now-famous Scottish brogue—but it was originally supposed to be Farley in the lead.

"He did 99 percent of the film and then passed away," Chris' older brother Kevin Farley—who looks eerily like Chris—told Yahoo, adding, “Originally the Shrek character was a little bit more like Chris, like a humble, bumbling innocent guy,”

Now Reddit has given us the chance to hear what that was like. Listen to a clip, set to storyboards, above.

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