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- Lorne Michaels is the creator and producer of SNL, but he was also the inspiration behind Dr. Evil. Myers has stated before that his impression of Michaels was the inspiration for the character. He also explained that Donald Pleasence’s portrayal of Blofeld was also a big inspiration for Dr. Evil.
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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".
May 16, 1997 · ”The best joke in Austin Powers was that Dr. Evil was totally a Lorne Michaels impression,” says an anonymous ex-SNL writer who prefers not to risk the wrath of the creator and...
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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.
Jun 20, 2021 · Mike Myers reportedly modeled Dr. Evil’s voice and mannerisms after Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels. Apparently, the line “Throw me a frickin’ bone, people,” was something Michaels used to say at SNL script meetings.
- Mike Myers came up with the character after hockey practice. Myers once said in an interview that the origin of the Austin Powers character was, as he drove home from hockey practice one night, hearing the Burt Bacharach song “The Look of Love,” and wondering whatever became of ’60s swinger culture.
- The character first appeared in Ming Tea. While Myers played lots of recurring characters on Saturday Night Live, Austin Powers didn’t come from there. The character actually started in Ming Tea, a mock band Myers formed along with a group of musicians, including Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs, in the mid-1990s.
- It was “30 to 40 percent” improvised. About a third of the film was improvised, Myers said in an interview around the time of its release, although it’s hard to say how significant that is when the credited screenwriter is also portraying both the hero and villain.
- It was a big part of Cool Britannia. Cool Britannia was a cultural moment in the second half of the 1990s, coinciding with Tony Blair’s arrival as prime minister, in which British culture became cool around the world again.
Aug 29, 2019 · Lorne Michaels is the creator and producer of SNL, but he was also the inspiration behind Dr. Evil. Myers has stated before that his impression of Michaels was the inspiration for the character. He also explained that Donald Pleasence’s portrayal of Blofeld was also a big inspiration for Dr. Evil.
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.
