Mike Myers Reveals His Most Overlooked Character Yet

Mike Myers, now largely out of the limelight, has left an indelible mark on popular culture with a handful of iconic roles. For most, his name instantly conjures up images of Wayne Campbell, Austin Powers, Dr Evil, and the beloved green ogre, Shrek. These four have become fixtures in the collective memory, their influence stretching across decades and showing no sign of fading soon. Myers could, in theory, continue voicing Shrek indefinitely, given the role only requires his presence in a recording studio, and he has even revived Wayne for a series of adverts not so long ago. Of his most famous creations, it is only the international man of mystery who has not made a recent return. While a new outing for Austin Powers remains a possibility, the prospect of seeing Myers don the character’s trademark look in his sixties is, at best, a mixed bag. Some would welcome it, but it could just as easily fall flat.

Yet, Myers’ career is far from defined by just these four. His years on Saturday Night Live saw him inhabit a wide range of personas, from Fat Bastard to the eccentric Mackenzie clan in So I Married an Axe Murderer, Maurice Pitka in The Love Guru, and even the Cat in the Hat. There was also that curious stint as the disguised host of The Gong Show reboot, a fact he kept under wraps. Despite their variety, none of these roles have quite managed to capture the public’s imagination in the same way as his most celebrated parts. Fat Bastard, perhaps, comes closest, but even he falls short. Still, Myers himself does not consider any of these his most overlooked performance.

Lord Lordington and The Pentaverate

Instead, Myers points to a character from a project that barely registered with audiences. The Pentaverate, a Netflix series blending conspiracy and comedy, failed to make much of a splash, never troubling the platform’s most-watched lists and quickly slipping from view. Despite the presence of a well-known star and a high-concept premise, the show was largely ignored.

Speaking to Too Fab, Myers shared,

“I did a character called Lord Lordington, who’s the head of the Pentaverate, this secret organisation, and I think it’s my favourite character. It’s sort of everything, growing up in an English household, there’s a certain English wisdom that we’re proud of, that we broke the German codes, time zones, figuring out latitude, all those Englishy things, and this character embodied all of that.”

Multiple Roles, Little Recognition

In The Pentaverate, Myers did not stop at Lord Lordington. He also took on the roles of Ken Scarborough, Anthony Lansdowne, Rex Smith, Bruce Baldwin, Mishu Ivanov, Shep Gordon, and Jason Eccleston. Yet, these characters have largely faded into obscurity, a fact Myers acknowledges with a touch of regret. The series simply failed to capture the public’s attention, and as a result, these performances have gone largely unnoticed.

He admits,

“I wish people would go, ‘Hey, Lord Lordington!’”

but concedes that such recognition is unlikely to come. For Myers, though, the character remains a personal favourite, a distillation of the qualities he admires from his upbringing and heritage, even if the wider world has yet to take notice.