Rowan Atkinson, the actor who plays the hilarious Mr. Bean, was a man that French wanted to have for a boyfriend. The actress, who will starred in the Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, wanted to date a man as funny as she was.
Alas, their love was not to be, and French went on to marry another comedian, Lenny Henry. French said of her former crush, "I wanted a funny boy because I thought no one else would understand how being funny can also make you quite sad. "(But) I realised he would be absolutely the wrong person."