Rowan Atkinson fuels fresh hope iconic character could return after 30 years.
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00:00That's something that we've been struggling with in the last two series, is how much to, you know, to bring him into the modern world.
00:07A smartphone?
00:08A smartphone.
00:09What chaos would ensue?
00:10Which he doesn't, you'd be pleased to know.
00:12I think people quite like this sort of slight retro feel of Mr. Bean, that he is a character and a person who's stuck a bit in the past.
00:22Do you find yourself sort of, you know, at home staring into the middle distance and then you come up with a scenario where you think, I wonder what Mr. Bean would do in this?
00:28Well, yes, I don't, I can't say that I act out these situations myself.
00:33Brace yourself today.
00:36He speaks a lot more than he used to in the early series of the cartoons.
00:40We were fairly uncompromising.
00:42We said, you know, he is a non-verbal character.
00:45But actually in the last two series in particular, he's been talking a lot more.
00:49And I think, I think, to the betterment of the character, I think he's in many ways, he's slightly more accessible.
00:55Wake up.
00:58Ow!
01:00Yeah, I gotcha.
01:01What price to have you back doing a live action version again?
01:04Yeah, occasionally I think about it.
01:05Do you?
01:06And then I think, I don't know.
01:08I don't know, you know, is it worth it?
01:10Is there any need?
01:11It probably won't happen.
01:12Almost certainly it won't happen.
01:13But I'm just saying that it's not an impossibility.
01:16It's not like this.