Tag Archives: Rowan Atkinson

I found this great audio inter­view with Rowan Atkin­son, where he explains the dif­fer­ence in his two most suc­cess­ful char­ac­ters, Mr. Bean and Black­ad­der. He also describes the gen­e­sis of Mr. Bean, which includes his inspi­ra­tion by Jacques Tati. This … Con­tinue read­ing →

Lately I have seen a few movie trail­ers that include a scene where some­thing awk­ward hap­pens, and quickly moves to the next shot of an observ­ing char­ac­ter say­ing “Awk­ward” in slightly sing song voice. “Rio” and “Hood­winked Too” come to … Con­tinue read­ing →

Sev­eral years ago I read about an Eng­lish tele­vi­sion spe­cial from Rowan Atkin­son (Mr. Bean).   It was his Guide to Visual Com­edy.  I even­tu­ally found a com­pany that pro­duced NTSC VHS tapes of British imports, and I got a … Con­tinue read­ing →