A Man Famous for Not Talking Taught Us a Valuable Lesson When He Spoke About Free Speech.

Society has become insufferably high maintenance. We’re as touchy as a loaded spring. We’ve forgotten how to argue and debate without tearing each other’s heads off, and we silence those with a different point of view. We’re prickly to even the mildest adverse comment. Comedian Rowan Atkinson stuttered his entire school life and was called “alien face” because of his looks. Today, people recognise him as one of the biggest success stories ever emerging from comedy, and his costars say he’s a “comedy genius”. Atkinson realised that his stammer faded whenever he played a character other than himself, which marked a humongous breakthrough in his acting and performing career. Despite this, his quirky looks were the second major hurdle that got him rejected for roles. So he created a show centred on a character that was his spirit animal and settled on the name of a vegetable: Mr. Bean. During prime-time viewing, a UK television network gave Atkinson’s show a one-off 30-minute slot on New Year’s Day in 1990. Mr Bean was broadcast right after Coronation Street, which in Britain is the most popular and longest-running soap opera in history. With 13.5 million viewers sitting at home, the luck of timing and the show’s genius catapulted Mr. Bean into a household name after one performance. <a href="https://levelup.gitconnected.com/a-man-famous-for-not-talking-taught-us-a-valuable-lesson-when-he-spoke-about-free-speech-5d0fbfc73012">Click Here</a>