More than once, Edwards says, he swore off Sellers. If you don't have that, it's hard to find a reason for him. "Thou shalt not give up," says Edwards, who co-created the character. The director maintains that Clouseau's appeal, then and now, lies in his perseverance. And if you ask me who contributed most to those things, it couldn't have happened unless both of us were involved, even though it wasn't always happy." But I couldn't resist those moments when we jelled. But in that exploration there would oftentimes be disagreement. We also had an ability to come up with funny things and great situations that had to be explored.
"We clicked on comedy," Edwards says, "and we were lucky we found each other, because we both had so much respect for it. It was a fruitful if complicated relationship. Do it." He will forever be associated with the eight Pink Panther movies he made between 19, especially the five starring Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau. "I learned a long time ago," he says, "that if I have a talent for directing comedy, it's best not to question it. "But I do, I guess." And yet here he was-closing in on 87, his memory razor-sharp-expounding on the art of comedy by recalling not just some of the more celebrated scenes in his oeuvre, but also how it was that he, um, stumbled into such fare to begin with.Įdwards insists he never embarked on a career as a comedy director.
I don't mind being the comedy maven." He pauses. "It gets a little tiresome," he admitted recently, sitting in the light-filled living room of his Brentwood home.
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(Photo Credits: BFI/Photofest)īlake Edwards' classic comedies have always had a dark side, so it's not surprising the director best known for his series of Pink Panther films has mixed feelings about being celebrated solely as a master of the pratfall. Relationship, Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers had great comicĬhemistry on the set. PARTNERS IN CRIME: Although they had a highly contentious
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