Mike Myers Plays a Whopping 8 (!) Characters in the Trailer for Netflix’s ‘The Pentaverate’
After a relative hiatus from acting, Mike Myers is back to flex his accent work and powers of transformation in the trailer for his new Netflix series, The Pentaverate. Not only is Myers the creator and executive producer, but the Austin Powers actor will be playing a whopping eight different roles in the six-episode comedy.
The Pentaverate is about a secret society of five men formed during the Black Plague in 1347 to, essentially, save the world. Since the Middle Ages, when the Church condemned them as heretics, they have secretly manipulated major world events for the greater good. Now, in the present day, Ken Scarborough, an old-school Canadian journalist (played by Myers, of course) sets out to expose the Pentaverate to save his career.
The new trailer sets the scene with eerie music, spooky symbols, and dark, fortress-like rooms full of hooded, masked figures. But don’t worry, the clip still promises plenty of classic crude, Myers-style humor (exhibit A: “I haven’t had this much fun since I was at a nudist colony and accidentally backed into a meat thermometer”).