Talking about the evolution of the character, did you have a problem in the early days with the pratfalls?
Well, they leave your back a little sore. I had to massage out some bumps in there as a result. Wesley was a lot goofier and sillier when he first arrived, he was a much tighter person.
When we had it in mind for the character to join the show, we knew that we would take a long time to evolve him and to bring things out, but in the meantime it was a golden opportunity to use him to great comic effect.
So in the early days that he would frequently find himself tripping over his own foot or poking himself in the eye or something silly to undermine his rather grand ideas about himself. I like that. One of his appealing comic traits was as a man who took himself very seriously. He fancied himself as James Bond but was really probably more of a Clouseau.
Those are fun moments to play but the actual falling over has meant many bruises and bumps to pay for that comic moment. Is it worth it? I don’t know, there may have been one too many falls.
Talking about the evolution of the character, did you have a problem in the early days with the pratfalls?
