Mike Myers Rewatches Austin Powers, Shrek and Wayne's World | Vanity Fair

beyonce was a dream she was the loveliest person in the world and just knocked it out of the park she would always listen to music and she said to me mike what are you listening to right now and i said oh i'm just listening to led zeppelin at the moment and she went i think i'll listen to that led zeppelin she had never heard of it she was so young and the whole crew was like oh and then the next day she was doing this and i said what are you listening to she went led zeppelin they're great i'm mike myers and i'm going to revisit some of my scenes from throughout my career all right [Music] okay i still live with my parents which i admit is both bogus and sad but at least i've gotten amazing you know canadians have this rise at the end so every statement sounds like a question so even if it's snowing obviously they'll go it's snowing i've got an amazing cable access show i still know how to party and it's kind of like it's called linguistically it's called the canadian rise which is i'm going to talk i'm going to talk then it goes down and that means it's your turn to talk so it's like the other day a guy came up to me and he was really mad now it's your turn to talk because i went down and that's the accent for wayne but i put it in chicago because there's an aurora in chicago and there's an aurora just north of toronto ah the mirth mobile you had no money so i thought the most that they could get is an amc pacer and then they would put flames decals or flames coming out of the wheel well i see a little silhouette what i remember most about this was uh fighting very very hard for it to be bohemian rhapsody and uh they didn't want to do it they wanted to do guns and roses which i love guns and roses but i didn't have anything funny for it and then lauren was like you really want it i went yeah so lauren fought for it on my behalf lorne michaels and uh dana and i talked about five days ago about our next still hurt from bub that was easily 200 takes over two nights in uh oh some town i want to say el segundo or cerritos outside of los angeles but um i just couldn't believe i was in a movie it will be mine oh yes it will be mine what was so much fun about this scene was the director penelope spherus who i fought very hard to be the director even though she didn't have any comedy credits she had done the decline of the western civilization a documentary about heavy metal that was so incredibly awesome and authentic i knew that she would get the heavy metal part of it and she knocked it out of the park [Music] oh control baby i think you can't resist me [Applause] i'd always liked the divinels i just couldn't believe there was a song called i touch myself which just to be honest i still slightly i may be blushing [Music] there's something about sexuality that is corny people get very very serious about their sexiness and to me it always makes me laugh because it's it's almost too arch you know what i mean so overt sexuality makes me laugh and especially like really contrived dirty jokes make me laugh the fembots is something it's a little bit from six million dollar man and it's uh it's a little bit from one of the matt helm movies but i needed somehow to show that he has mojo [Music] the reveal of the chest hair was just when i was a kid marveling at sean connery being part man part beast a crazy amount of chest hair he had a pelt if you will more than chest hair that scene was choreographed by a fantastic choreographer marguerite derrick who did all of the choreography for all the austin powers films an absolute genius because what she would do is go what do you got i took jazz dancing and tap as a child in toronto i would show her my moves very very influenced by fosse [Music] i had a fantastic prop man named eugene mccarthy and every prop that i had eugene mccarthy made it funnier more user-friendly just better than anything i could have imagined so these are you know one of the first movies i was doing and i was very very spoiled by just you know just how what great artists i got a chance to work with like marguerite derrick and eugene mccarthy and jay roach and all of the people [Music] excellent basil we've been trying for years to get a mold inside dr evil's lair we now have that mole yes ah and here he is so you're the mo now the reason i did the mole joke is that i just recently had it removed but i had a giant mole on my face and i'd just gotten on saturday live and these uh college girls the kind of like mean girls right uh were walking by i was looking in the window and they went that looks like mike myers and uh i said did like that she goes that's not mike myers he's got that big ugly mole on his face and i was like every time she was like i can smack to the face yeah you've never seen that mole that big ugly mole yeah he's got a mole and they said it like 20 times and so it always just stayed in my head holy moly moly [Music] that was improvised one of the things with jay roach the director is we always get the scripted take and then we get a series for what we call shizzies and gizzies just to see what we got more often than not we'll pull from that that take usually to button a scene [Music] listen little donkey take a look at me what am i oh [Music] really tall no i'm an ogre you know fairy tales were about the class system you know i mean you had uh you had worker people and then you had this people who were for no reason the king and queen they weren't elected or anything so i always could thought that that ogres were working people growing up as a working person so i thought i tried it as a canadian and it just didn't have any umph and then i said can i can i record it again as scottish because i know you know fairy tales are eurocentric form scottish people are near and dear to me i have relatives in scotland and background and scottish and they're working people it's a working people accent and they went uh no we like it the way it is i said oh come on just let me steven spielberg said why don't you try it once okay okay but one night only ah thank you he sent me a lovely letter steven spielberg saying you're so right it's way better as scottish thank you so much uh they spent some money but not the amount of money that has been reported in the press i'd like to point out uh and by the way i recorded it all for free one more time and just happy to do so because i wanted it to be good and uh and there we have uh shrek being scottish it's gonna be fun we can stay up late swapping man list stories and in the morning i'm making waffles oh where do uh ashley i never saw uh eddie murphy until the press junket but i fell in love with donkey uh just hearing his voice to the headphones and then when you start to see the animation and uh i love that character donkey and i i wish donkey lived in my house i love that character so much [Music] y'all just kidnapped a black man we've been kidnapping white men for years we wanted to give you an opportunity what if the world was run by five people but what if they were nice and not evil that they were benevolent secret society i guess that's the canadian in me who has a eternal trust of government um because government's been very good to this canadian and uh and uh what if a very unlikely local canadian newscaster was the only person who could uncover the penthavert who must never be exposed i wanted to make something silly and fun and something that's cinematic and has big sets and helicopters and and stuff like that because those are the type of movies that i grew up on and i love and i wanted to make something that is a little like how british tv where they make six and go and that's it unless we want to do more but it's designed to be six basically we're the good guys we want you to trust us why should i trust you white man white a man older white a man i don't know what the hell to make out of you the world is a little anti-expert right now and the basic thing i just wanted to say was um it's a high tide that floats all boats expertise everybody benefits from smart people and experts but the experts need to serve the people and the people need to trust the experts but it's way sillier than that it's everything i loved doing with austin powers i was on saturday night live i did a character called lothar of the hill people and it's so it's always holy there's low thought and i'm like of everything i've done lothar of the hill people is the one and i always go yes i am

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Length: 11min 4sec (664 seconds)

Published: Tue May 24 2022