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| Rowan Atkinson interview for Canadian radio. |
RA: Very well, thank you.
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INT: When did you discover your face?
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RA: That's a good question. I think I was about 20. It was when I first -I had just arrived at Oxford University. I had already got a degree in electrical and electronic engineering, which is my background. And I'd just arrived from another University, arrived at Oxford, and towards the end of my first month there, someone was doing or was staging a show, was, was staging a review, you know, one night stand, at a theater in Oxford and they asked me if I'd do something in it, because they knew that I'd been in school plays or they had heard that I'd been interested in theater and performing...
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| Rowan Atkinson Bob Salem Interview for Toronto Star/CRFB Radio. |
| Nascent Bean: If you saw the show at the Bayview Playhouse in Toronto 10 years ago, there were at least two sketches there which turned into Mr. Bean sketches. Which were Mr. Bean sketches -- he was there, he just didn't have a name. He wasn't called Mr. Bean. Though I seem to remember he was wearing a tweed jacket in both of those sketches. We did him on stage for 10 years before we christened him, before he had any identity at all. It was only in 1989, three years after we were here, that we made the first Mr. Bean program. So he's been around for a while...
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| Rowan Atkinson, Bigstar.com interview. |
| Already a huge hit in Europe and Canada, the British comedy Bean has made one hundred million dollars even before it washes up on American shores. The question for Bean himself, a.k.a. Rowan Atkinson, is if the quiet, mischief making character will translate well across the common English speaking cultural divide, using mostly body language...
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