Mike Myers has been part of many famous scenes in his movies, especially in Wayne’s World, but one scene stands out the most.
The 60-year-old actor, who was on Saturday Night Live, said he took inspiration from his own life and his ‘punk rock era’ for the scene where his character, Wayne Campbell, and Dana Carvey’s character, Garth Algar, rock out in a car to Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
That scene could have been very different if the screenwriters’ or studio’s ideas had been used instead of Myers’ wish to include the Queen song.
Bonnie and Terry Turner wrote the screenplay, and for that scene, they wanted to use Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love.”
At the same time, the studio had a completely different idea and wanted to use a song from the popular new band Guns N’ Roses.
However, “Bohemian Rhapsody” was chosen because of its “strange operatic quality,” Myers told Vulture, which just gave him the Master of Culture award.
“Everybody was assigned a Galileo. That was the big thing, and we had fights if you took my Galileo.”
In the scene, Wayne, Garth, and their friends sit in the backseat of a car, driving through Aurora, Illinois, and start headbanging together to the guitar riff at the end of the song.
Wayne’s World started as a sketch on SNL before it became a hit movie in 1992.
The movie’s description from IMDb says: “Wayne is still living at home. He has a world-class collection of name tags from jobs he’s tried, but he does have his own public access TV show.”
“A local station decides to hire him and his sidekick, Garth, to do their show professionally and Wayne and Garth find that it is no longer the same.”
“Wayne falls for a bass guitarist and uses his and Garth’s video contacts to help her career, knowing that Ben Oliver, the sleazy advertising guy who is ruining their show, will probably take her away from him if they fail.”
The film also starred Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Lara Flynn-Boyle, and the late Chris Farley and Meatloaf.
Myers is also known for playing Austin in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002).
The Canadian comedian has won seven MTV Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
In 2002, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He played both the main character, a comedic parody of the suave spy James Bond, and his enemy, Dr. Evil, in the three Austin Powers movies.
Over the years, he’s talked positively but not directly about the possibility of a fourth Austin Powers film.
