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TIL that Rick Moranis, Martin Short, and Robin Williams were all considered to play the lead role in The Mask (1994). Director Chuck Russell picked Jim Carrey after seeing him on the sketch comedy show "In Living Color", but Nicolas Cage and Matthew Broderick were also kept in consideration.

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