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...level of a child really. Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach. And 10-year-old boys from different cultures have more in common than 30-year-olds. As we grow up, we acquire this sensibility that divides...
...Mr. Bean come...
...feeling that Mr. Bean's Holiday might be the last. But I probably said that 10 years ago, after the first movie. [Laughs.] When you get into your 50s, as I am now, there is a slight risk that you will start to look a bit geriatric. I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly...
...sort of an alter ego of mine. Mr. Bean is my natural organ of expression when I am told to be funny in an entirely visual way. We do have periods of improvisation, but that tends to happen during rehearsal rather than on the studio floor...
...disagreement quickly turned personal and ugly, at least according to his supervisors. Aguirre was insubordinate and abrasive, impugned colleagues' integrity, threw tantrums, was unprofessional in taking depositions, and generally "insufficiently cognizant of institutional protocol," supervisors later complained in congressional testimony. "Frighteningly, it appeared that Mr. Aguirre was pursuing a personal agenda bordering on vendetta," recalled Mark Kreitman, assistant director of the enforcement division, who was his former professor at Georgetown and one of his supervisors at the SEC. Aguirre claims all these accusations were concocted after the fact, and were never part of his paper record. He had just gotten...