Johnny English - Chat with Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) and others : CaptionKit HyperTranscript


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Features the cast of Johnny English, a (2003) comedy spy movie. including interviews with Rowan Atkinson, Natalie Imbrughlia, John Malkovich and other characters from the film.
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Speaker	Caption
Johhny English
	Ahh, the Heckler and Kock G36.
	Deadly in the right hands.
Lorna Campbell
	Ah, Agent One.
	I've been so looking forward to this moment.
Johhny English
	Well in that case, I'll try not to disappoint.
Lorna Campbell
	You overestimate your power over women, Mr English.
Johhny English
	I'd say that would be virtually impossible.
Bough
	(whispering) sir...
	Sir ...
	SIR !
Johhny English
	Ouuhhuggh !
Rowan Atkinson (Johnny English)
	Johhny English is promoted to be Agent One.
	And of course, he's not really good enough for the role.
	But it is a role he has always dreamt of having.
	He's always dreamt of this idea. It's something, he's read all the books
	and he's you know, and of course the funny thing about Johhny English
	As opposed to most comic characters in spy movies
	is that actually he's genuinely rather good.
	He's not a complete klutz, he's not a complete buffoon.
	He actualy he drives quite well and he shoots quite well and, you know.
	But of course he ju.. the problem, his problem really
	is that he just loves it too much.
Johhny English
	Johnny English, I'm here to see Pegagus.
	Sooo, no sense rushing things.
Secretary
	There are certain items you need to sign before your briefing.
	There's your new retinal ID card.
	And this is your level nine security clearance.
	Sign and date please.
Johhny English
	Euuurh, Ah !
	Oh, reminds me of the old service issue ballpoint.
	I remember every agent would carry a pen that looked just like this.
	Completely innocent to the untrained eye, but click it twice ... (pop !)
Secretary
	Ooooohhh!
Rowan Atkinson (Johnny English)
	He just gets so involved with it, he loves being a secret agent so much
	He just gets so involved with it - he loves being a secret agent so much that he oversteps himself.
	He always thinks that he's better at something than he actually is.
	He's the sort of person that in a hurdle race, would jump the first seven hurdles extremely well,
	But he'd be so busy waving at the crows whie he was taking the last hurdle
	that he would trip and fall, its that, he falls at the last hurdle
	It's the last ten percent of his activity that's fatally flawed.
	Err, and it's into that area that he should never go.
	But he always does, cause he's so full of himself,
	He's got enough smugness and arrogance and what have you to always go further than he should.
Peter Howitt (Director)
	Johnny English isn't really a liability, he just steps into the wrong room
	or steps into the wrong piece of grass that's got the cow pat on it.
	But keeps going.
	Erm, so, he believes in himself, he trusts his judgement and will see his judgement through to the end.
	And that's the fun for us, that he doesn't stop,
	He just ploughs through his mistakes and keeps going.
Johhny English
	Agent one !
Agent One
	Gentlemen.
	I'm here for my documents.
Johhny English
	Ah, Boff - Agent One's documents, please.
Bough
	Ahem.
Johhny English
	Er your mission documents, Agent One.
	Including the codes for the submarine hatch, which I've checked myself.
Agent One
	Thankyou.
Johhny English
	So is it just France tonight or, or will you be slipping over the Pyrenees as well ?
Agent One
	If I told you that, I'm afraid I'd have to kill you.
Johhny English
	Oh, hahaha, mueweeelll.
Ben Miller (Bough)
	The main thing I liked about the script was, it's got this fantastic beginning
	where all the rival agents are completely removed
	through Rowan's actual fault.
	And so he ends up through his own incompetence being the only agent
	that we have who's capable of dealing with the, em the er potential theft of the Crown Jewels.
	And I think thats just a really good premise.
	So he gets off on the right foot and it just sort of goes on from there.
Sound Effect
	Church bell tolling
Johhny English
	The greatest secret agent England's ever had.
	Snuffed out in an instant.
	But there's always another agent waiting to step into the breach.
Bough
	Absolutely, Sir.
Johhny English
	And every last one of them is gathered round that grave.
Q
	Everything in order then, England ?
Johhny English
	I think you'll find it's rather more than just in order, Sir.
	You're now entering the most secure location in the whole of England.
Sound Effect
	Boom !
	Moooooo !
Rowan Atkinson (Johnny English)
	Having been basically a very junior, suburban employee of the British secret service,
	Johnny English has been promoted to Agent One status.
	Of which he's extremely proud.
	And at a reception for the newly restored crown jewels
	- which of course end up getting stolen because Johnny English is in charge of the evening -
	Erm that he sees across a room, a wonderfully beautiful woman, played by Natalie Imbrughlia.
	And of course he's full of himself - he's been promoted, he's got the Aston Martin
	he's feeling absolutely great, and therefore he also thinks
	I deserve that girl, thankyou. She's clearly the one for me.
	So, he singles her out for one of his 'well, good evening' sort of conversations, err
	And of course he um, he messes up that conversation
	Because it's just, y'know, he just won't let go, he doesn't know how to just stop and consider things quietly.
	He's just on this roll, you know, he's just having a great time.
Lorna Campbell
	So, are you here alone, Mr English ?
Johhny English
	It's how I choose to live my life, Miss Campbell
	Women want safety, security - I can offer them nothing but danger
Lorna Campbell
	Some women find danger very attractive.
Johhny English
	Women, like you Miss Campbell ?
Lorna Campbell
	Women like me expect men like you to find that out for yourself.
Johhny English
	Uhhhrrr.
Waiter
	Madame ?
Johhny English
	Oh it's for me actually.
	And could you rustle up some of those cheesy nibblers that are going around ?
	Now ...
Natalie Imbrughlia (Lona Campbell)
	Something funny that springs to mind is when,
	The scene where Rowan comes up through the lavatories.
	And he's covered in poo !
	And sometimes Rowan is so serious about things you know, and he was saying
	'You know I just - can I have a little bit, I think it needs a bit more poo just right here'.
	And seeing someone covered like that, that's really thinking
	about how the scene should play out, I find that hysterical.
	And he's in and out of that mode the whole time, you know.
	Sometimes he's being very serious about how things should be,
	And then he's goofing around, and
	All in all I think no-one gets too relaxed about how things are put together,
	And that's something that has been really great for me to see in a comedy film,
	is that it is taken quite seriously, it is comedy but everything has to be right
	and it's still, how it's pieced together is really important.
	And Rowan's been very very concerned with the storyline and the drama of it.
	And that things stay real to life.
	That, you know - somethings happening and it has a purpose ?
	It's not just to get the gag to happen.
Peter Howitt (Director)
	Rowan has a wonderful line, turn of delivery.
	He can deliver a line with an acidic arrow.
	He's got great timing, obviously.
	Erm, and he can make you laugh with a look. Because he has got a funny face.
	He's got a face that you like, and also it makes you laugh.
	But I think it makes you laugh because it's not what he does with his face
	It's what he's thinking with his eyes.
	And that goes back to the intellectualising about it.
	Once it's thought through, if something bad happens and he kinda goes ...
	Well that's a funny face. If something happens and he goes ...
	I can't do it. But if you believe the character is having a moments dilemma
	then he can do something with a very small, almost nothing movement of the eyes
	that a lot of other actors can't get a reaction from the audience with a whole load of face pulling.
	And he just has, he has every area covered.
Ben Miller (Bough)
	I mean there are so many areas that you could praise Rowan for
	But the one I think that I admire the most is his tenacity, really.
	He will do things over and over again erm
	I would hesitate to say until he thinks he gets them right
	Because quite often you get the sense that he doesn't even really manage to achieve
	what he really really wants to get.
	He just gets somewhere there and kindof has to settle for that, you know.
	He kind of erm, yeah it's his tenacity really.
John Malkovich (Sauvage)
	Rowan obviously plays a sort of
	quite hopeless, kind of clueless English secret agent
	who's mission it is to stop me from this dastarly deed for Queen and country, I dunno.
	He's really fun to watch, like all comics or...
	Cause they always seem to me incredibly serious and
	thoughtful and , uh
	So perfectionist.
	And he just always seems to be in some kind of contemplative state.
	Uh, and it's extremely funny to watch.
Lorna Campbell
	Do you like sushi ?
Johhny English
	Oh, suu-shee - I practically live off the stuff.
Lorna Campbell
	Oooh - you're brave. They say that sea urchin is the ultimate acquired taste.
Johhny English
	It's a personal favourite of mine.
Lorna Campbell
	Would you excuse me for a moment?
Johhny English
	Mmpph. Mmmurrgh. MMmmpphhhuurrr.
	Help !
Peter Howitt (Director)
	Er John Malkovich is playing Sauvage.
	Er wihch is fantastic of course.
	Er and he's a mixed bag, I mean like all villains.
	There are various components to his character.
	There's the good side, the charming side, the icy side
	The ruthless side and the crazy side.
	And John is able to play all of those quite neatly, and to switch from one to the other.
	And he has just, you know, a very good command of the camera
	and understanding of the language of film cause of his vast experience.
	And so, he doesn't need to do very much to get an effect.
	And one of the things that probably works very well with a villainous person in a film is an enigma.
	A sort of worrying enigma.
	And John has a worrying enigma.
	Erm, and he'll also - you can press his fast forward button.
	And he'll just go through the roof for you. He, he's fearless.
Rowan Atkinson (Johnny English)
	But he just provides a very good foil for Johnny English.
	Cause he's , I mean there are two ways of playing villains.
	One is to be, one it to growl and look nasty and to shout at everyone.
	And the other way is to be incredibly charming and smily and nice and rather quiet in your delivery.
	Er, and only occasionally showing the steel and the madness
	which is an essential part of any spy movie villain.
	And John captures it perfectly, just he's so sort of languid and - 'oh you know its, its'
	Er and of course being French of course, it does help
	And because John lives in France I think he obviously, I think he has a sort of inside track
	to the way that French people think and speak.
Natalie Imbrughlia (Lona Campbell)
	I was a big fan of John's actually.
	And was quite nervous when I did my first scene with him.
	Especially because he's playing the bad guy,
	and the first thing we did together was erm,
	shots when Johnny English and Lona were having this dance scene,
	and we get whisked, we're trying to get off the dance floor
	and we're confronted with Sauvage
	with this menacing stare.
	And we were supposed to stand by the camera and like hold the stare
	so that we could get John's shot.
	And I was so scared I kept wanting to run away, and Rowan literally had to hold me in place.
	Because, I kept wanting to run away, because - oooo !
	He's scary ! He's very, very strong.
	As an actor - he has a very big presence and, er - but he's really down to earth as well
	like he's been very approachable and er, he's been really great to work with as well.
	I fell like I'm really really lucky.
Ben Miller (Bough)
	Yeah, the wonderful thing about working with John Malkovich is his freedom.
	I mean he literally, you know, I've never , er acted with someone
	Who was so erm
	Free, you know I mean, he kind of, he does it
	I mean inevitably in the film you will just see him do it one way.
	But you know he did it cer - every line, every performance was done so many completely different ways.
	Erm he can improvise, er
	He can er, he can
	You know, contact emotion you know, at the drop of a hat.
	You know from , really rage to almost kind of kind of , you know
	Really kind of very subtles stuff you know, he's just erm
	He's a virtuoso, you know.
Russian
	What are we going to do about English ?
Natalie Imbrughlia (Lorna Campbell)
	If I were you, I wouldn't worry too much about English.
	'e is not threat to us, I 'ave is flat bugged.
Sound Effect
	# Abba # , Martial arts sounds
Johhny English
	Errrllooooo-yo !
	Hoh hoh hoh hoh -- ha !
	Ha
	Ha ho ha ho ho - ooooooo
	Hoh ! Owwww !
Peter Howitt (Director)
	Rowan is the head of the department.
	And Boff is a very keen junior, you know, assistant member of the team.
	They've both been launched into a status they weren't expecting to be at.
	Johnny thinks that day was going to come anyway so he was prepared mentally for it.
	Boff is like a kid - 'Great, roight, so fantastic sir, so, right we'll do that then shall we ? Good.'
	He - Boff is very very keen, very dedicated, very loyal to Johnny, doesn't ever contradict him.
	Johnny by return, even though he's quite condescending to Boff,
	is never rude or puts Boff in the line of taking the blame for something Boff hasn't done.
	he doesn't use Boff as a scapegoat.
	There's a mutual respect. Although there's a definite pecking order
	which Johnny is very keen to keep in place -
	I'm up here, I'm the Boss, and you're Boff. Boss - Boff. Haha. You know.
Ben Miller (Bough)
	Ahh my character's called Boff, err.
	You never actually find out in the script if he has a first name.
	Err but we suspect it's Angus.
	Er Boff is basically Johnny English
	Johnny English's sidekick.
	I mean he's basically - he's like er Johnny English's P.A.
	And erm his job really I suppose is to er
	is, is admin, hah.
	In the field, just making sure everything is ticking along, running on track.
	Making sure that Johnny English has got everything that he needs.
	That flights have been booked, tickets have been bought. All that kind of stuff.
	But as a result of Johnny English's impetuousness, he quite often
	finds himself in very dicey situations.
	And I think the crucial thing about the whole script is
	Johnny English has been promoted perhaps slightly beyond his capabilites.
	And sort of as a consequence, Boff has been promoted beyond his as well.
	So he's having as much difficulty coping with these new challenges as Johnny English.
Russian
	Those idiots are right behind us !
Bough
	Pull left, Sir !
Johhny English
	We're never going to catch them in this - change places Boff !
	I'm getting in the Aston.
	Right Boff - take me up !
	Swing me out Boff !
	Down.
Sound Effect
	Car horn tooting
Johhny English
	Up - UP !
Bough
	Sorry !
Sound Effect
	Boooomm !
Natalie Imbrughlia (Lona Campbell)
	Pete is great.
	I don't know that, I think he's one of the main reasons that I'm doing this film.
	because he, I was very nervous from the start.
	After reading the script, before I even met with him I thought - oh you know, I don't know.
	And he's , he's an actor himself so he's nurtured me all the way through the project.
	He read through my lines with me before I auditioned
	And really went out of his way to make me feel comfortable
	Because he knew I hand't done this in nine years
	And I was really throwing myself in the deep end
	And I don't know I would haev been able to do it so confidently and comfortably
	if it wasn't for the way he handled it.
Ben Miller (Bough)
	Yes, unusually for somebody who's an actor, he's a very very good director.
	He never tells you what to do.
	He never tries to constrain you.
	You know he's very er , he's very you know sympathetic and understanding
	to whatever you might, to whatever you might be trying to achieve.
	And he erm, he's really prepared to give you space.
	You know and I think that's real directing skill.
	So I mean he's er, he's a batallion
	Er hahahaha
	He's basically a three pronged attack.
	Erm and I think he's doing a brilliant, brilliant job
	He's also a good laugh, he's also very funny.
	And er he's very rude to me which goes down well.
Natalie Imbrughlia (Lona Campbell)
	I think people will enjoy this film cause it's a different slant on a spy comedy.
	And it's, it's not too serious, but it's not too silly at the same time.
	Hopefully the characters are interesting enough that people are going to get emotionally drawn in to the story line.
	And they're going to be falling off their seats laughing I think -
	cause we've been laughing the whole way through making the movie, so.
	I just think it's going to be very entertaining really.
Rowan Atkinson (Johnny English)
	Lorna, having thought that Johnny was basically a bit of a pratt
	Er which of course he is a bit of a pratt
	But er she during the course of the movie discovers all the good things about him
	which we hope the movie brings out,
	which is that he's a good man, you know, he's a good hearted man
	and he means extremely well, and he does his very very best
	and he doesn't give up - he's someone who will not stop, you know what I mean,
	until the aim is achieved - even if he goes down a completely ridiculous and erroneous road
	But nevertheless he keeps going. Erm.
	And I think that those qualities are things that Lorna begins to appreciate.
	And towards the end of the movie she, she admits
	that actually she has feelings for Johnny
	She would quite like to get to know him rather better,
	which of course takes Johnny completely by surprise.
	Cause I can't imagine any woman has ever said that to him before.
Lorna Campbell
	Sir Johnny English.
Johhny English
	Her Majesty did seem very grateful.
Lorna Campbell
	She's not the only one.
	Mmmmmm.
	You are full of surprises.
	AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh !
	Johnnyyyyyyyyy !

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