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- Myers told The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 for an oral history on Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery that, yes, Dr. Evil was based partially on Michaels, but also on another actor.
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In 1997, an unnamed Saturday Night Live writer claimed Dr. Evil was based on SNL creator Lorne Michaels, saying: "It's the lower lip, the eyebrows, the whole way he talks." Another unnamed former SNL actor cited Michaels' "obsessing about minutiae, the way he ends everything by bringing his pinkie up and chewing the fingernail".
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- MIKE MYERS STARTED THINKING UP THE AUSTIN POWERS CHARACTER DRIVING HOME ONE DAY. Burt Bacharach’s “The Look of Love” was playing on the car radio, leading Mike Myers to think about where the “swingers” of the world went off to.
- IT’S WIDELY BELIEVED THAT DR. EVIL IS BASED ON LORNE MICHAELS. Anonymous former writers and actors from the legendary sketch show claimed that Dr. Evil did an excellent job of mimicking SNL's head honcho, from his overall control-freak behavior to the physical mannerisms, including the famous upturned pinkie.
- MICHAEL CAINE BELIEVES THAT AUSTIN POWERS IS BASED ON A 1965 CHARACTER OF HIS. Caine portrayed bespectacled government agent Harry Palmer in the British espionage movie The Ipcress File.
- ELIZABETH HURLEY BELIEVES THAT AUSTIN POWERS IS BASED ON A 1960s BRITISH TALK SHOW HOST. Simon Dee was the host of the hip and popular BBC celebrity chat show called Dee Time that ran in the late 1960s.
May 16, 1997 · But some of Myers’ fellow Saturday Night Live alumni say that the actor-writer gave Evil a secret identity. ”The best joke in Austin Powers was that Dr. Evil was totally a Lorne Michaels...
TIL Mike Myers loosely based his Dr. Evil character on his former SNL boss Lorne Micheals. Dr. Evil's phrase "throw me a frickin' bone here, people," was supposedly something Michaels said many times at script meetings for SNL.
May 2, 2022 · Dr. Evil was based on Lorne Michaels If you’ve ever heard Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels speak, it’s hard not to notice that Dr. Evil’s speech patterns and mannerisms are clearly meant as a homage to Lorne, the fellow Canadian who was Myers’ boss for many years on SNL.
May 22, 2019 · Myers told The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 for an oral history on Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery that, yes, Dr. Evil was based partially on Michaels, but also on another actor.
Nov 3, 2023 · Despite Myers’ denial, many claimed that Dr. Evil was based on SNL creator Lorne Michaels, but he didn’t even want to play the character at first. Originally, Myers wanted to cast Jim Carrey in the role because he thought Carrey’s mastery over physical comedy made him the perfect fit.
