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Mike Myers Became ‘Possessed’ by His Dr. Evil Alter Ego While Filming ‘Austin Powers’

Mike Myers had to become 'possessed' by his Dr. Evil alter ego to improvise in 'Austin Powers.'

Roach continued, “Austin was fun — the bad teeth and the hair all over his body — but I always thought Mike’s deepest laughter came from the smart, specific humor of Dr. Evil.” “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.’ Some of that run was written, but some was just Mike improvising,” Roach said. Roach praised Myers’ “encyclopedic sense of humor” that encompassed allusions to “Monty Python” and “Young Frankenstein,” as well as Bertolt Brecht.

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