It’s hard to know where to begin with someone like this, so we’ll start by saying he’s the iconic Mr. He’s actually very well educated and graduated from TWO universities - Newcastle University and Oxford University.Rowan Atkinson as Zazu A red-billed hornbill, who serves as the lion king's majordomo (or 'Mufasa's little stooge', as Shenzi calls him).I don’t go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn’t handle owning one.” Somehow, the typical Porsche people - and I wish them no ill - are not, I feel, my kind of people. They’re wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. He said, “I have a problem with Porsches. Even though he loves sports cars, he said one car he’ll NEVER own is a Porsche.He has been listed in The Observer for the top 50 funniest British actors.The only thing he said was “pass the ketchup” when they went out to dinner. Apparently, he was really quiet on his first date with his ex-wife.He’s a huge fan of James Bond! He started his career playing a character in Never Say Never Again.Bean, he treats his cars like his friends. Rowan is a huge fan of sports cars and collects them for fun!.

But the character was so popular that it spawned two successful movies, an animated series, a video game and books! There were only ever 14 episodes of the show produced.He said that IRL he really can wiggle his ears! Rowan was asked what he has in common with his famous character.Bean’s Holiday! She no longer considers herself an actor. Rowan has a daughter named Lily who appeared in Mr.There doesn’t seem to be a country out there that doesn’t enjoy the show! Bean was broadcast in over 200 countries. Talk about having a really cool group of friends! He was lucky enough to be one of the guests at Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles’ wedding!.According to his good friend Stephen Fry, Rowan loves to just ride go-karts around his tennis courts.“Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. “The stuff that has been most commercially successful for me – basically quite physical, quite childish – I increasingly feel like I’m going to do a lot less of.” Bean in 2012 because he realized that the character was too childish for him. The Queen gave him the title of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2013 for his work.Cauliflower before settling on the name we now know. Bean, he went through a number of different names for the bumbling character. To get around those words, he has to pause a bit before saying them. He sometimes has trouble pronouncing words that begin with “B” and are immediately followed by a vowel. It’s because he has suffered with a stammer for several years. Rowan is pretty quiet about his personal life and doesn’t tend to give many interviews.He was asked to do a sketch at the playhouse and the idea came to him when he was standing in front of the mirror and fooling around with weird facial expressions.Īccording to him, “this strange, surreal, sort of non-speaking character evolved.” Bean? It started when he was getting his master’s degree at Oxford. So how did Rowan even come up with the character of Mr.

He was cast as Zazu, the red-billed hornbill.Īnd yes, he does his own singing on “I Just Can’t Wait To Be King!” *listens to it on repeat because who even knew it was Mr.

He voiced a pretty important character in The Lion King.

So here are some interesting facts about the actor! You recognize his face and his weird facial expressions, but you might not realize that there’s more to Rowan than Mr. Bean movies and several other successful projects. I miss that show, don’t you? Rowan Atkinson became a star because of that show and he’s gone on to star in Mr. Bean get himself into trouble because he couldn’t figure out the simplest things in life.

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