1981 – Rowan Atkinson interview

Exciting on Instagram: "🎬 Fun fact: “Mr. Bean’s Holiday” The creator and actor, Rowan Atkinson, decided the character would communicate entirely through physicality and facial expressions, modeling the non-verbal comedy style after the great silent-era film stars like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. Atkinson has consistently refused to allow the character to have a proper voice or a conventional plot, believing that the universal language of physical comedy is the key to Mr. Bean’s global ap