Mike Myers - 'The Pentaverate'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The legendary funnyman, in a rare interview, reflects on how his childhood shaped his comedy, the challenges and rewards of playing multiple characters in the same project and how a line he spoke in a 1993 film inspired his new Netflix comedy series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning into the 441st episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood
0:13.2	Reporter's Awards podcast.
0:15.1	I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is in the words of the New York Times,
0:19.8	a quote, comic genius, close quote, and quote, one of the most successful comedians of
0:25.4	his era, close quote, a Canadian.
0:28.6	He emerged from the world of improv, specifically the second city troops of Toronto and Chicago.
0:34.7	He rose to prominence in the world of sketch, after joining NBC's Saturday Night Live in
0:39.2	1989, and he became a full-fledged movie star through his work in three immensely popular
0:45.5	film series, those built around Wayne's World, Austin Powers, and Shrek, in each of which
0:52.2	he played the title character.
0:54.5	Now, after a long period of taking on few and exclusively smaller parts, he is back in
1:00.7	a project which dropped last week, doing what he does better than anyone else, playing
1:05.8	multiple characters in a project of his own creation, namely the Netflix comedy series,
1:12.2	The Pentavurate, Mike Myers.
1:15.6	Over the course of our conversation, one of very few interviews he has granted over the
1:19.3	course of his career, the 58-year-old and I discussed how his childhood in Canada inspired
1:24.2	several of his most famous characters, from Wayne Campbell to Austin Powers, the challenges
1:29.8	and rewards of playing multiple characters in the same project, which he first did on
1:34.4	film in 1993's So I Married an Axe Murderer, a film which also spawned the idea for
1:40.3	the Pentavurate, why he has taken numerous years-long hiatuses from the screen, and why
1:46.3	he came back for the Pentavurate, plus much more.
1:50.7	And so, without further ado, let's go to that conversation.
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