John Lithgow thought Shrek was going to be a ‘Saturday morning cartoon’
John Lithgow had no idea ‘Shrek’ was going to be a big hit as he thought he’d recorded a voice role for a “Saturday morning cartoon”. The ‘3rd Rock From The Sun’ star voiced the diminutive Lord Farquaad in the 2001 animated movie which became a smash hit the box office and won the first ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but John admits he didn’t take the job “very seriously” as he thought it “wasn’t a big deal”. Speaking on ‘The Jess Cagle Podcast with Julia Cunningham’, he explained: “It was so tossed off. I didn’t take it very seriously … I thought it was going to be like a Satur...