![]() ![]() Barney was very, very good to me,” he said. He also became interested in a variety of non-acting related fields, becoming a tantra massage specialist, a spiritual energy healer and reiki practitioner. I KNEW BARNEY WAS BLACK /uh4F79ZgllĪfter the show ended in 2001, Joyner went on to have minor appearances on shows like That ‘70s Show, Hip Hop Harry, T he Young and the Restless, ER and Veep. Me : *thinks about the time I had my Barney bear* No! /aMCck416AV 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. “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. Because Tantra deals with loving energy, life force energy, and energy that rises through your system," said Joyner.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. And a lot of times when people think about Tantra they think it's all about sex. He's Into Tantra: "When I was 19, I started studying Tantra. And try to feel the energy of anything that was around me. I would close my eyes, and I would try to feel energy. So what I would literally do is I would walk around my apartment as if I was blind. And when Barney's mouth is closed, I can't see anything. I can only see a certain amount, because of the peripheral of Barney's mouth. There's no facial expressions that can be made. His Job Was No Easy Feat: Joyner said in the interview: "The head doesn't come off. ![]() ![]() Now I did have some sneakers inside that were glued to the bottom of the feet." It's a t-rex, so you're basically just up to your elbows in being able to move. According to the actor, "The suit can get over 120 degrees inside. But that's not the only challenge that Joyner had to overcome. He's a Warrior: The costume weighed a whopping 70 pounds. ![]()
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