Mike Myers hearts his hometown iHeartRadio station!
The 55-year-old actor, dressed as a character from 1977’s A Bridge Too Far, gave a shout-out to CHUM 104.5 during an appearance on the Halloween episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Myers was recalling how Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” got to be featured in his 1992 big-screen comedy Wayne’s World.
“Growing up in the suburbs of Toronto, we’d be driving down the Don Valley Parkway and on CHUM FM, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ came on,” he said. “I was in my brother’s Corolla that had a vomit stain on the side … my brother pulled over and from that moment on we each had a ‘Galileo.’”
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Myers said when Wayne’s World was in development, he knew he wanted to use the song. The studio, though, wanted Wayne and Garth to rock out to something by Guns ’N Roses.
“It wasn’t something I grew up with,” he said, adding that he fought hard. “I’ve got the Scarborough in me,” said Myers, referencing the Toronto suburb where he grew up.
Now, Myers portrays a fictional record label executive in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, where he tells the band members that teenagers will never crank up the volume in their cars and bang their heads to “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Myers described the reference to his own film as “so self-satisfying" and heaped praise on Bohemian Rhapsody and Rami Malek, who plays Freddie Mercury. "I'm Canadian so we're not so good at the hard sell," he said, "but it's fantastic and I'm so proud to be a part of it."