An era ends: tired of the pressures he continues to feel on his shoulders with each passing year, Rowan Atkinson has decided to let go of her most famous character forever, the one who gave him worldwide success: Mr. Bean. In fact, at the age of 66, the English actor and screenwriter hopes never to return to the role of the mask he helped create in 1990, becoming, without realizing it, a timeless phenomenon that has conquered more than 2oo countries in the world. However, he will continue to lend his voice to the cartoon: “It’s much easier to give him a voice,” Atkinson explained in an interview with Radio Times.
"Mr. Bean" star Rowan Atkinson has weighed in on "cancel culture": "It’s important that we’re exposed to a wide spectrum of opinion, but what we have now is the digital equivalent of the medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn." https://t.co/69Gls9IObZ
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“I don’t really like playing him. The burden of responsibility is not pleasant. I find it stressful and tiring, I hope it will end soon ». Based on personal experiences – Atkinson has struggled with stuttering since he was a child – Bean is essentially a good and naive mask, modeled on gestural comedy very close to silent cinema and Peter Sellers. The first 15 episodes aired in Great Britain between 1990 and 1995 transform him into a worldwide phenomenon that almost immediately escapes Atkinson’s control, who was finishing an engineering master’s degree at Oxford University at the time.
Rowan Atkinson non ne può più di Mr Bean. L'attore inglese ha dichiarato di non voler più interpretare il personaggio che lo ha reso famoso. Ci riuscirà ? pic.twitter.com/3maNM0NVRK
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“There isn’t much that makes me laugh on television in Britain at the moment.” In fact, he prefers “traditional formats”, such as Friends e The Bing Bang Theory. “The problem is that on the Internet we have an algorithm that decides what we want to watch and that ultimately creates a simplistic, two-dimensional view of society. It seems that one can only be with or against. If you are against then you deserve to be “canceled”, silenced. It’s like the crowds in the Middle Ages wandering the streets looking for someone to burn at the stake. For those who are victims of these groups the experience is terrifying ». Atkinson, who has always fought for the personal freedom of each artist, is not just Mr. Bean in his career: beyond the two cinema films modeled on his character, he has also appeared in several successful films, such as Four weddings and a funeral, and in sitcoms like Blackadder which, even today, is defined as one of the most popular television programs of all time in Great Britain.
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