Rowan Atkinson discusses his extremely successful career in a new interview with British GQ. The actor, who is the second of four all-star GQ Heroes covers to be released this week, has had a career spanning over 40 years.
He says of one of his most known roles, “Mr. Bean”: “I feel as though it’s me as a nine-year old – or me as an 11-year old – because he’s essentially a child trapped in a man’s body. “That’s how I’ve always seen him.
He’s got the innocence but also the anarchic instinct and the unpleasantness, the uncompromisingness of children. They don’t take a particularly sophisticated view of the world and that is both Mr.
Bean’s strength and his problem.” READ MORE: Rowan Atkinson Stars In Netflix’s New Comedy ‘Man vs Bee’ Atkinson goes on to say of the beloved character, “Bean is such a weird man and – I like to think at least – far removed from my own personality, the distance I have to move in order to play him is actually very reassuring.
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