Was it fun to have your own office that was your size and watch everybody else adjust to your world for a change?

Verne: Yeah, exactly. In the average size world I adjust to, you know, I’m used to everything. It was very different for me to get on this stage. It was like a different world that was very comfortable.

Have you talked to Mike about possibly doing another Austin Powers?

Verne: Personally no. If it happened, I would love to do it. I just haven’t really heard anything.

Are you signed up for a sequel to this?

Verne: If there was, I would be. But I don’t know. Since the Guru can teach a lot of different people, I don’t know if I’d be involved in that unless he wanted me, maybe I have a personal problem.

What are you doing next? Do you know?

Verne: I just got done with Imaginarium so I’m taking a little bit of a break doing some commercials and things.

How long was the shooting in Vancouver of Imaginarium?

Verne: About a month and a half almost. For me. There was probably two and a half months, three months or something.

So it was a healthy shoot?

Verne: Yeah.

What’s your favorite place for filming?

Verne: We shot Guru in Toronto and I fell in love with that city.

Why?

Verne: It reminded me of a miniature Chicago. I just fell in love with it.

Do you love traveling? Is there a part of the world you’d like to see?

Verne: Yeah, there’s a lot of places that I haven’t been to that I would love to see. What I try to do is I try to take these movie roles as my vacation. I just look for the ones that are traveling. But I have been to a lot of interesting places while working and eventually I will go and see the places I haven’t.

Do you share any of these Eastern philosophies that are put forth in the film in a comedic way? Does some of it stick with you and make you think “That’s actually pretty smart. It’s a wise thing”?

Verne: Like the things that Mike said?

Yeah. Like the DRAMA and all that.

Verne: I mean it’s funny. I’m not worried how you look at it.

Is there a certain kind of code or philosophy that you live by yourself?

Verne: I wouldn’t say a code or philosophy. I do believe that there is a higher power but I’m not here to throw it down somebody’s throat of anything. I mean I just believe.

It seems that there might have been a lot of stuff cut from this?

Verne: There was a lot of stuff cut. The movie was over two hours.

Were there scenes that you remember doing that were just really out there and you hope will make there way onto the DVD?

Verne: It’s so hard to remember because I did Imaginarium right afterwards. So I guess it wasn’t too funny if they didn’t put it in the film.

What was one good thing that happened?

Verne: I guess what I said at the end of the film and I didn’t know they had captured that. So I guess that’s the funniest thing.

That got a huge laugh. It was very, very funny.

Verne: Thank you.

For someone playing this temperamental coach yelling at the team, it seems you would be limited in terms of the PG-13 rating and what you could say.

Verne: Yeah. I had other takes where it was inappropriate for me to say for a PG-13 film.

What about the physical stuff that you do in this movie? Was it sort of fun to get your hands and feet dirty?

Verne: I got started doing stunt work and I did that for 8 years and I fell into this so I love doing all of my own stunts. I’d rather do it than have somebody else do it.

That wasn’t you flying into the hockey goal?

Verne: That was a doll. I probably would have broken my neck. That was actually me sliding across the ice attached to the camera along for the ride.