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 Mike Myers
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime He’s been a public-access TV host from Aurora. He’s been a British secret agent with swinging 1960’s flair and fashion sense and some really bad teeth. He’s even been an easily irritated, boorish green ogre with an unusually Scottish accent. And it is Mike Myers and only Mike Myers that has been the giver of life to each of these highly distinctive characters. He emerged in the world of comedy as one of the most popular cast members of Saturday Night Live, creating such memorable, distinct characters as Sprockets and Linda Richman. Mike soon parlayed one of his SNL characters, Wayne Campbell into the highly successful Wayne’s World movies in the early 1990’s. But Myers’s career really took off with the successes of the title character in both the Austin Powers and Shrek movies. A man known for creating such memorable characters and gags, the now 45-year old Toronto native hopes to continue making his distinct comedic mark, giving life to his newest character, Indian love guru Pitka in the new comedy The Love Guru. However, as much as most people know him for his many characters, very few people know the man behind them all. It’s been built on a career that Myers says all started with a simple crush he had on one of SNL’s founding alumni. “When I was 10, Gilda Radner played my mom in a TV commercial,” Mike recalls, “And then, when I was 11, I cried at the end of the commercial and my brothers were like, (in Wayne-Campbell-like voice) ‘Hey, Sucky Baby!’ They called me ‘Sucky Baby’ because I cry, because I fell in love with Gilda Radner.” “And then, about a year later, they said, ‘Hey, Sucky Baby, you girlfriend’s on the stupid show. It’s on Saturday. It doesn’t even have a name.’” he continues. “It was Saturday Night Live. I saw it and went, ‘One day, I will be on that show alright.’ Fourteen years later, I was.” His simple love for the late actress, Mike says, ultimately would plant a seed for what has been for the comic a life’s dream come true. “I wanted to create, write, produce, and act in comedies since I can remember and it’s been an embarrassment of riches,” he says, “This has gone a jillion, gajillion times better than I ever thought it would go. I can’t even say it’s a dream come true because I didn’t even dare to dream this big, so it’s just been an amazing experience.” An experience, he says, as with his previous character Austin Powers stemmed from what he says has been channeling his real-life personal tragedy into a kind of cathartic comic gold. “When my father passed away in 1991, two things emerged, one is Austin Powers, which is a tribute to my British father and his love of British comedy,” he notes, “And the other is the guru Pitka, which is kind of dealing with this horrendously painful experience. I loved my father. He was this Liverpoolean who was sharp ... |
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