The Vicar Catherine Hosmalin as Ticket Inspector Urbain Cancelier as Bus Driver Stéphane Debac as Traffic Controller Julie Ferrier as The First AD Lily Atkinson as Lily Production Plans for a second Mr. Bean film were first revealed in February 2001, when Rowan Atkinson - who was filming Scooby-Doo at the time - was lured into developing a sequel to Bean (1997), from a script written by Mr. Bean co-creator Richard Curtis that would have followed Mr. Bean heading to Australia under the working title Down Under Bean. No further announcements regarding the film were made until in early 2005. In March 2005, the film was officially announced, then titled Bean 2, with Simon McBurney, co-founder and artistic director of the Théâtre de Complicité theatre company, writing the film's script. In December of that year, Atkinson announced that he would script the film himself alongside Curtis, though the final screenplay was instead written by Robin Driscoll (a writer on the TV series) and Hamish McColl, while McBurney wrote the film's story and served as one of the executive producers on the film alongside Curtis. Principal photography for the film began on 15 May 2006 and took place on location across England and France, particularly during the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. At that point, the film's title was changed from Bean 2 to French Bean, and later to Mr. Bean's Holiday, a reference to the 1953 French comedy film Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, whose title character served as an inspiration to the character of Mr. Bean. Atkinson reflected in 2022 that since he was neither an athlete nor a cyclist, he found the cycling sequence to be the most difficult thing he had ever done as Mr. Bean. Deleted scenes The film features twelve deleted scenes, all of which are included in the film's home media releases: On the train, Bean accidentally spills some coffee on a laptop in front of two sleeping men. He cleans it up by wiping the keyboard with his hands, leaving just as one of the two men wakes up and blames the other for destroying his laptop. This scene was featured on trailers and TV spots for the film, while the European release of the film has it in place of the vending machine scene. An extended version of Bean's walk across France where he sees Stepan for the first time looking out a car window.