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Interesting facts about Rowan Atkinson

Interesting facts about Rowan Atkinson

The comedy genre and the cinema will always be grateful for the contributions of Rowan Atkinson, especially for breaking down the international barriers. Even now he has been garnering a lot of success and interest for his film career. He is best known for the portrayal of Mr Bean, and that saw him groundbreaking success and making him an international icon. His quirky body language, portraying emotions with the loud but funny expressions made people laugh without speaking much and the iconic escapades. No matter the age group or gender, he had made people go mad with laughter due to his comedy and even in this modern age of drama series and high octane movies, watching his sitcoms and movies will always tickle the funny bones.

As much as famous he is across the globe; he has always preferred to keep his private life as much private as he can and has been successful in it too. There always is more to the person then it meets the eye, and there are certain interesting facts about him that are not widely known.

Some interesting and lesser-known facts about Mr Rowan Atkinson

  • The original name for the name of the series wasn’t Mr Bean. It was actually, ‘Mr. White’. However, before finalizing on ‘Mr. Bean’, it was changed to ‘Mr. Cauliflower’.

 

  • Mr Bean series is one of the most loved comedy shows across the globe, but there is the only a total of fourteen episodes, and each of the episodes is only 25 minutes long.

 

  • Rowan Atkinson is highly educated and qualified; he has done his undergraduate in Electrical engineering and has done masters in electrical engineering as well from Oxford University.

 

  • Incidentally, the idea of Mr Bean surfaced while he was doing his masters. He started its creation and writing of sitcom along with the co-writer Richard Curtis. He found his inspiration in the form of ‘surreal, strange, and non-speaking character’. And the rest is history.

 

  • He played a supporting role in the James Bond movie ‘Never Say Never Again’ (1983) starring Sean Connery & played the character of a foreign office representative in the Bahamas.

 

  • Rowan Atkinson may drive a mini in the famous British Sitcom, ‘Mr. Bean’ but in real life, he loves to race and drive the cars and has an extensive collection for the same. He owns various cars which include the Austin Metro, Renault 5 GT Turbo, McLaren F1, Audi A8, Skoda Superb, and Honda Civic Hybrid. He also stated that he totally hates Porsche and would never be able to live with one.

 

  • In the year of 2001, while flying with his family in Kenya, the pilot of the aircraft fainted for a short while, and in that time he took control of the aircraft and managed to keep it steady till the pilot recovered. The flight landed safely, and there were no injuries all thanks to the cool demeanour and presence of mind of Rowan Atkinson.

 

–         He has crashed his McLaren F1 on two occasions, and he successfully claimed £ 910,000 insurance for it.

 

He is extremely protective for the concern of the privacy of his family as well as personal life and till date has successfully maintained that despite the successful movies releasing at certain time intervals. The world will always be grateful for his contribution to the comedy genre. Rowan Atkinson phone number can be used by his fans to get in contact with him. Fan of Rowan can send him a personalized fan mail or wish him on his birthday at Rowan Atkinson email id.

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