From one Napoleon actor to another, Terry Camilleri is looking forward to seeing Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon.Decades before Phoenix would take on the role of the former French emperor in the new film, Camilleri played Napoleon in the 1989 comedy Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. When Alex Winters and Keanu Reeves’ titular characters travel through time, they bring along Camilleri’s Napoleon, who’s featured in many of the film’s funniest moments. Reflecting on becoming Napoleon Bonaparte in a new interview with A.V. Club, Camilleri recalled how director Stephen Herek had encouraged him to improvise, so a lot of Napoleon’s most humorous moments were created by the actor on the set.”In situations like when we did that bowling alley scene, I saw that the camera was at the end, so I just slid down the alley with the ball. And it worked. You know, I just slid down the alley with it because it was all new to me. And so I ran with it and I got pissed off, [mutters like Napoleon],” the actor explained. “The director said, ‘Listen, any time you want to do something like this, go for it.’ So I had that freedom to be able to come up with stuff and just go with the rhythm, the harmony that I was creating through this character… A lot of what I did was improvised.”Ridley Scott Blasts Historians Over Napoleon Complaints: ‘Shut the F— Up’
From one Napoleon actor to another, Terry Camilleri is looking forward to seeing Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon.
Decades before Phoenix would take on the role of the former French emperor in the new film, Camilleri played Napoleon in the 1989 comedy Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. When Alex Winters and Keanu Reeves’ titular characters travel through time, they bring along Camilleri’s Napoleon, who’s featured in many of the film’s funniest moments. Reflecting on becoming Napoleon Bonaparte in a new interview with A.V. Club, Camilleri recalled how director Stephen Herek had encouraged him to improvise, so a lot of Napoleon’s most humorous moments were created by the actor on the set.
“In situations like when we did that bowling alley scene, I saw that the camera was at the end, so I just slid down the alley with the ball. And it worked. You know, I just slid down the alley with it because it was all new to me. And so I ran with it and I got pissed off, [mutters like Napoleon],” the actor explained. “The director said, ‘Listen, any time you want to do something like this, go for it.’ So I had that freedom to be able to come up with stuff and just go with the rhythm, the harmony that I was creating through this character… A lot of what I did was improvised.”
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