Nearly nine years afterwards Kanye West proclaimed that "George Bush doesn't affliction about atramentous people" in a civic telethon to accession money for Hurricane Katrina victims, the man who stood next to him with a winced attending on his face has accurate his support. "I'm, like, cool appreciative to accept been next to him," amateur Mike Myers afresh told GQ. "The attending on my face is. . . to be honest with you, I anticipation I handled it well."
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Looking aback at the telethon, Myers recalled activity afraid and uncomfortable. He said he capital to do the telethon because he, too, acquainted "ironically, that if this was white humans on roofs, the army would be there in 5 seconds." If one of the show's producers told him he would be alive with Kanye West, Myers recalled not accepting accustomed with the rapper's work. "And afresh he said he was traveling to yield some liberties with the thing." Myers said he didn't apperceive that the alternative would be "calling out" Bush.
Myers told the interviewer, "I don't apperception answering the catechism [about Kanye] but the accent of it accepting that I'm the guy next to the guy who batten a truth." Moreover, Myers said, "To accept the accent on the attending on my face against the actuality that somebody batten accuracy to ability at a time if somebody bare to speak? I'm actual appreciative to accept been next to him."
One ages afterwards the telethon, Myers and West appeared calm on Saturday Night Live and lampooned the incident, with the Canadian-born Myers adage the U.S. government had revoked his citizenship while West looked aloof. As The Hollywood Reporter points out, West would after accede that his comments ability accept been hyperbolic. "I would acquaint George Bush, in my moment of frustration, I didn't accept the area to alarm him a racist," the rapper told Matt Lauer.
Elsewhere in Myers' GQ interview, the amateur appear that the endure letter George Harrison wrote in his activity was to him. "That's mind-blowing, dude, for the son of a Liverpudlian, a being who worships the Beatles," the amateur said. "The letter came on the day of Austin Powers 3 if we were cutting . . . the Hollywood cine adaptation of Austin Powers' life, as directed by Steven Spielberg, and it was the day George Harrison died."
Myers recalled accepting the letter that day. "I cried like a baby," he said.
As for the capacity of the letter, Harrison wrote that he was appropriately sitting with his actual own Dr. Evil doll. The above Beatle had reportedly been "looking all over Europe for a mini-you doll." Harrison thanked Myers for the movies and even offered a alteration for the actor, "Dr. Evil says frickin', but any acceptable Scouser dad will acquaint you it's in fact 'friggin' as in a 'four of angle and feel pie', if you get my drift." He said, "Thanks for the movies, so abundant fun."
Harrison aswell accustomed Myers' annotation on the Beatles' Anthology special, in which the amateur accepted accepting bathetic while cerebration about the final attempt of A Hard Day's Night if the helicopter with the Beatles' bandage name on its aperture takes off. "I adulation the spirit of that blur so much, that spirit got into Austin Powers and Wayne's World, which is that it's a party," Myers said. "And he said [in his letter] 'I'm apologetic I larboard you on the helicopter that day, I affiance I will not do it again.'"
Myers said he did apperceive why Harrison acquainted the charge to address him a letter but would not allotment the reason, added than to adumbration that it is "fantastic and sad and awesome."
Incidentally, beforehand in the interview, Myers aswell appear that he has called his dog "George Harrison."
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