George Harrison Sent Mike Myers A Letter From His Deathbed, Was A Big Austin Powers Fan

Well, that was unexpected. In a recent interview with GQ, Mike Myers, who has been barely sighted since his, ahem, under-performing 2009 film The Love Guru, has revealed that he received a letter from Beatle George Harrison on the day of Harrison’s death. Basically, Harrison was a big Austin Powers fan, couldn’t find a ‘Mini-Me’ doll, and thought that Myers’ Liverpool accent was a bit dodgy. So he wrote a letter, which turned out to be one of his last correspondences before his 2001 death from lung cancer. So weird.

See the relevant excerpt of the interview below:

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Is it really true that the very last letter George Harrison wrote in his life was to you?

Yes. That’s mind-blowing, dude, for the son of a Liverpudlian, a person who worships the Beatles. The letter came on the day of Austin Powers 3 when we were shooting the scene where Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Steven Spielberg, Danny DeVito, Kevin Spacey are doing the Hollywood movie version of Austin Powers’s life as directed by Steven Spielberg, and it was the day George Harrison died.

Had you ever had any contact with him before then?
No. And then I got this letter on that day. I cried like a baby, and it’s prominently displayed in my house. He says “…sitting here with my Dr. Evil doll…I just wanted to let you know I’ve been looking all over Europe for a mini-you doll.” And he says “Dr. Evil says frickin’ ” but any good Scouser dad will tell you it’s actually ‘friggin’ as in a ‘four of fish and finger pie’, if you get my drift.” He said, “thanks for the movies, so much fun.” Dude, I can’t even. On the [Beatles] Anthology special I spoke about how I still get teary thinking of that last shot [in A Hard Day’s Night] with the helicopter and all the 8-by-10s and it says B-E-A-T-L-E-S on the door and the helicopter takes off. I love the spirit of that film so much, that spirit got into Austin Powers and Wayne’s World, which is that it’s a party. And he said [in his letter] “I’m sorry I left you on the helicopter that day, I promise I won’t do it again.”

Did you ever learn how he came to be writing this to you?
Yeah, but I can’t really speak of it. But it is fantastic and sad and awesome, and this is the magic that I’m talking about that I feel very grateful and privileged to be part of it.

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