Rowan Atkinson on Being Mistaken for a Mr. Bean Lookalike

The thing I find most tricky is when people don't recognize you

particularly,

but half recognize you. You know, it's that strange thing of where they

go...

Is that, and of course that means they stare. They stare a lot.

Anyway, I was standing around with, with a group of guys,

and I could see this guy

doing that.

And he came up to me after a while, then he said, "Excuse me,

has anyone ever told you-

"... that you're the absolute spitting image

of that Mr. Bean?"

And I said, "Well, actually, I am the actor who plays Mr.

Bean." And he said,

"Oh.

I bet you wish you were."