The Story of Bean

00:00:19 l was asked in my first term at Oxford

00:03:24 'Rowan has been developing the character for most of his life.'

00:05:17 'and asked to make funny faces for them.'

00:07:24 'in order to enjoy myself.'

00:09:43 When I first met him, he was nervous.

00:11:17 Yes. Rowan and I met at a tiny scriptwriters' conference

00:13:03 partly because of Richard Curtis's genius

00:15:08 He is very musical.

00:17:17 Once in the car, there are various ways of driving.

00:20:22 'It's an extraordinary gift.

00:21:56 Cos he played something of the same part in Rowan's one-man show.

00:24:00 And saw, within the moonlight in his room...

00:25:59 "and bumps into a lamppost."

00:27:48 Wise?

00:29:19 Answer the General, Baldrick.

00:31:25 Just a sense of the grappling hand coming out. "Where's the knob?"

00:33:15 If you do a bit of a caterpillar and you get up and you think

00:35:09 Good. That might be all I need.

00:37:57 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Mr Bean.

00:39:31 (Narrator) 'But despite this extraordinary success

00:41:30 Which goes back to the idea of trying to explore more facets of Bean

00:43:24 Whoa, David. What, suddenly there's no hotels in Los Angeles?

00:45:19 is when he's just sitting in a chair...

05:00:00 in the palm of his hand.