羅溫 艾金森告別銀幕：憨豆先生也會老

He is Rowan Atkinson’s Most commercially successful creation. However, Mr. Bean is unlikely to appear on our screens again。

Atkinson, 56, says he believes he is too old to play the bumbling character。

Atkinson – who describes Mr. Bean as "a child in a grown man’s body" - said:"Never say never, but I just feel I'm getting too old for it. I've always liked Mr. Bean as a cartoon-like figure, who doesn't really age much. I've always seen him as an ageless and timeless being and I'm clearly not ageless and timeless. The older I get, I feel I am less qualified to play him."

憨豆先生告別熒幕

Mr. Bean first blundered on to television in an ITV series。

Despite the derision of some critics, the program proved a huge ratings success, with viewing figures of more than 18 million。

The two films, Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie in 1997 and Mr. Bean's Holiday four year ago, earned £305 million worldwide。據英國《每日郵報》9月6日報道，“憨豆先生”是羅溫•艾金森創造的最成功的商業作品，但是，這一角色可能不會再出現在我們的熒幕上了。

56歲的艾金森說，他覺得自己年齡太大，難以繼續扮演這個傻里傻氣的角色了。

艾金森把憨豆先生稱爲“帶有孩子氣的成年人”，他說：“不能把話說死，但是我確實老了，不適合這個角色了。一直以來我都很喜歡這個像漫畫形象一樣的角色，他永遠不會變老。在我眼中，憨豆是永恆不老的存在，但我本人卻是會變老消亡的。年齡越大，我對扮演憨豆就越感到力不從心。”

在英國一家獨立電視臺的熒幕上，憨豆先生第一次踉踉蹌蹌現身。

雖然憨豆這個形象也不乏被批評家們嘲笑，但是，這一節目卻帶來了極高的收視率，擁有180多萬觀衆。

1997年的《憨豆先生：終極災難大電影》和四年前的《憨豆的黃金週》這兩部電影在全球獲得了3.05億英鎊的票房。