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Always Trust Mike Myers
Directing him in Austin Powers showed me the level of commitment necessary to be really, truly funny.
But we did have a shared vision, and Mike — along with the Todd Sisters, Suzanne and Jennifer, who were friends from USC film school and became producers of Austin Powers — had an instinct that I’d be a good collaborator. For people who were making such broad comedy, we talked a lot about Bertolt Brecht and how you can put the audience in a once-removed place, which is something Mike had been doing forever — for example, commenting on product placement in Wayne’s World. In the first movie, he’s in a therapy session and he starts to riff: When he was insolent as a child, he was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds; he took luge lessons; his father claimed to have invented the question mark.
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