This may come to you as a surprise or a silly joke, but it’s nothing but the truth. The popular CGI cartoon Shrek actually existed! Rather, his ogre-ific head was modeled after a real person; he was called Maurice Tillet and he was actually a very intelligent person: a poet and writer who could speak 14 languages, and sure enough he did use plenty of colorful idioms (;))
Read it all here.
While the article claims a lifecast of Tillet was “allegedly..used as a model to design the popular cartoon character,” I have not seen any proof of anyone involved with the movies claiming such. Nevertheless, the resemblance is uncanny, and Maurcie Tillet sounds like he was such an extraordinary man, he is worth posting about for that reason alone.
