“Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. “The stuff that has been most commercially successful for me-basically quite physical, quite childish-I increasingly feel I’m going to do a lot less of,” Atkinson said. In an interview with The Telegraph in November of 2012, Atkinson admitted that Mr.
ROWAN ATKINSON RETIRED THE ROLE IN LATE 2012. Bean was on hand for the opening ceremony, where he ushered in the games with a rendition of “ Chariots of Fire.” 13. When London hosted the Summer Olympics in 2012, Mr. Bean’s Holiday, ABC’s David Stratton asked “perhaps the most crucial question of the entire interview: can you really wiggle your ears?” To which Atkinson simply replied, “Yes, I can.” 12. Bean’s legendary ear wiggle is one trait Atkinson has in common with his on-screen alter ego. YES, ROWAN ATKINSON REALLY CAN WIGGLE HIS EARS. Bean is a very, very self-contained character because he’s so sort-of introspective and so selfish and self-centred that there’s no particular need to have another person in the scene to make him funny.” 11. Bean as “a child in a grown man’s body.” And in a 2003 interview with IGN, he called him “sort of such a natural anarchist. BEAN IS AN ANARCHIST.Ītkinson often refers to the character of Mr. Bean doesn’t speak often, but when he does the voice he uses is the same one Atkinson used to voice “The Man Who Likes Toilets” sketch on Not the Nine O’Clock News. Then the show’s creators began throwing around some vegetable names, and considered Mr. Originally, he was going to be called Mr. Bean hit the airwaves (and after production had already begun) that the character actually got his name. BEAN COULD HAVE BEEN NAMED AFTER ANOTHER VEGETABLE. In order to ensure that the character’s near-silent comedy would translate, he requested to perform for a French-speaking audience as opposed to the English-speaking attendees. Bean character on the audience at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, Quebec. BEAN DOESN’T SPEAK IN FRENCH EITHER.īefore he made his small-screen debut, Atkinson tried out the Mr. I so admired it, because it was an uncompromising comic attitude and setting that I really admired.” 7. Hulot’s Holiday,” Atkinson says in The Story of Bean. “My interest in physical comedy was from discovering a film by Jacques Tati called Mr. Over the years, Atkinson has repeatedly cited French comedian Jacques Tati as one of the great influences on Mr.
ROWAN ATKINSON WAS INSPIRED BY JACQUES TATI. (Which explains Atkinson’s cameo in Love Actually.) 6. Curtis would later make the jump to the big screen as the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones’s Diary, and the writer-director of Love Actually, The Boat That Rocked, and About Time. The two collaborated on Not the Nine O’Clock News and Blackadder before Mr. Bean, was writer-director-producer Richard Curtis. BEAN WITH ROWAN ATKINSON.Ītkinson’s creative partner at the time, and the man who helped develop the character of Mr. LOVE ACTUALLY DIRECTOR RICHARD CURTIS DEVELOPED MR. But since then, I’ve hardly ever looked at my face … I hope it’s doing what I think it’s doing.” 5. “I’m not sure whether there was a particular narrative, a logic to it, but I did my best and it certainly solicited laughter. “In the sketch the following Sunday, I just went through a whole lot of facial expressions,” Atkinson said in a BBC World Service radio interview. Bean started by looking in the mirror, Atkinson decided to put faith in what he was doing with his face following that first successful performance at Oxford. “I think, and I’ve always assumed, it’s because he’s basically a child trapped in a man’s body.” 4. “There doesn’t seem to be a country in the world, or not that I have visited, or indeed none that I have heard of, who don’t seem to get him, who don’t seem to understand and enjoy the character of Mr. Because the bulk of the comedy is physical, not narrative, Mr.
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