Pierce Brosnanand Robin Williamsshared the screen when they worked together on Mrs. Doubtfire, and now we’re getting insight into what went down between the legendary actors behind the scenes.
Despite appearing alongside Williams in the film, the James Bond actor recently told Vanity Fair that it wasn’t Williams that he worked with at all, but instead the now-iconic character from the beloved children’s movie.
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“I really never worked with Robin Williams,” the Irish actor recalled, elaborating, ”I only worked with Mrs. Doubtfire.”
Brosnan starred in the 1993 hit comedy as Stuart “Stu” Dunmeyer, the new love interest of Miranda (played by Sally Field), the estranged wife of Williams’ character, who disguises himself as a female nanny to spend time with his kids amid the divorce.
The 71-year-old actor recalled some of the fond memories of meeting Williams for the first time on set, stating, “I mean, the very first day that I was on set up in San Francisco. They said, ‘Do you want to meet Robin?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I’d love to meet him.'”
“And I went into the makeup trailer, and Robin was sitting there in a Hawaiian shirt — and his kind of haired arms hanging out and his hairy legs — but had the head of Mrs. Doubtfire,” he said.
He continued, revealing that William never broke character for the meeting, even speaking in Mrs. Doubtfire’s voice: “Oh, Pierce, you’re so handsome. Come here, give us a kiss,” and then going into a man’s voice to state, “Hey baby, what’s happening?”
“He jumped all over the place,” the Mamma Mia star recalled fondly.
As for the behind-the-scenes gems, he notes that “there’s reams of footage of me just kind of falling around on the floor with laughter, and he went really blue,”
“He really was quite colorful, because the children weren’t there, and it was just Robin and myself, and he knew he had me in the crosshairs with his humor. I loved the man,” he said, adding, that Williams was “such a kind-hearted man.”
Fans loved hearing Brosnan’s memories of the late Aladdin star, who died in 2014 at the age of 63, with one noting, “I adore how 32 years after Mrs. Doubtfire, Robin Williams still makes Pierce laugh out loud. It’s clear he still adore him and deeply miss him!”
Another chimed in, commenting, “Watching him light up and laughing instantly seeing Robin Williams made my day.”
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