![]() With seemingly rubber hips, he could surely give David Brent a run for his money in a scene where French buskers gather round and perform a rendition of La Mer. No less than fifteen deleted scenes are included in the extras, featuring more slips, trips and oodles of silly dancing. Given how tiring the experience was, Atkinson must be a bit irked that so much footage ended up on the cutting room floor. The man himself doesn't see it that way, saying that having to carry a film with so much physicality is "quite stressful." Dafoe reveals he's a big fan of Blackadder and writer Simon McBurney talks about Atkinson's "effortless" ability to make people laugh. Willem Dafoe talks about his role as a pretentious art-house filmmaker and pops up again in The Human Bean where cast and crew line up to sing Atkinson's praises. Behind-the-scenes footage sees the staging of this red carpet event, which was shot during the 2006 festival. (Call off the lawyers!)Īnother of Bendelack's favourite scenes finds Bean crashing a premiere party at the Cannes Film Festival. The filmmakers tip their hats to French funnyman Jacques Tati, who pulled a similar stunt in Mr Hulot's Holiday (1953) although Atkinson is quick to point out this isn't a remake of that film. Director Steve Bendelack confesses he's having a lot of "fun", while poor old Atkinson works up a sweat madly cycling after a chicken in a complex chase sequence. on location across the sun-drenched South of France in French Beans. ![]() The film also did brisk business at home and abroad, raising sacks of cash for Comic Relief.Ĭameras follow Bean and co. His second big screen outing as the tweed-donning doofus was generally better received than the first Bean flick, trading on slapstick shtick rather than fart gags as he travels all over France. After endless TV runs of Mr Bean, Rowan Atkinson has proved that he's " an inspired physical comedian".
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