The Mr Bean star on the challenge of playing an ordinary man,why pipe smoking is vital to the role – and whether he was asked to join Top Gear He has created some of television’s most memorable characters, with millions of fans around the world, and but Rowan Atkinson initially turned down his latest role as pipe-smoking French detective Jules Maigret because of the challenge of playing an “ordinary man”.
Atkinson is returning to television this Easter in his first major primetime role for almost two decades but has revealed he said no at first to the ITV note which some think could fill the emptiness left by the retirement of David Suchet’s Poirot. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com