Me : mama you know The man that played Barney was black Good to see someone genuinely enjoy and love what they do for a living. Well I’ll be damnned, Barney was a black man /pYzC52AFh9 When you find out Barney looked like you the whole time… /vpt4FDzQg9 I can only see a certain amount – when Barney’s mouth is closed, I can’t see anything.”įans of the hit series, which aired on PBS for 13 seasons, from 1991 to 2001, had mixed reactions about all these revelations. There’s no facial expressions that can be made. If I go into this audition, breathe life into this character, I’m going on vacation.”Īdditionally, he said, “The head doesn’t come off, the head doesn’t swivel. I had to breathe life into Barney in this dream. So on the way to the audition, I’m sitting at a stop light and something says, ‘Look up.’ So I look up and it says, ‘Breathe life into your vacation – Southwest Airlines.’ And then it hits me. “And I have to give Barney mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. “In this dream, Barney passes out,” he explained. Joyner’s big break came when he had a dream the night before his audition for the role. And people would literally bring their children, set them on the mall floor, and go shop,” he recalled.
MAN IN A BARNEY COSTUME SOFTWARE
“I would stand in front of the television and basically lip sync.”īefore he became an actor, however, the Illinois native worked a day job as a software analyst at Texas Instrument for six years, and even had a side gig as a “live mannequin” at the local mall. “When I was a kid, I wanted to be on television so bad,” he said in a clip posted to Twitter Thursday. In a recent interview with Business Insider, Joyner talked about the difficulties that came with the heavy, now-iconic costume and how he landed the role in the first place. David Joyner, the man who played Barney the Dinosaur for 10 years, has a lot of stories to tell about what life was like in the big purple dinosaur suit.
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