In the early 1970s, he appeared in a series of commercials for a local grocery chain in Pittsburgh. A pitchman in the foreground would read the ad copy while Mickey anonymously bagged groceries in the background, after which he would come forward and say to the pitchman, “Why don’t we give them a f’r’instance?”
Years later I read in the Washington Post that he was so broke in that era of his life that he would (for a few hundred bucks) agree to attend a party and pretend to be an old friend of the host.
Yeah, I get it. Milana Vayntrub is another actor who comes to mind. She’s done a lot of varied work, but has up to now kind of danced around major stardom (hopefully her role in Project Hail Mary changes that). So it’s her recurring role in the AT&T commercials that I’m sure has paid the majority of her bills.
Jon Hamm, on the other hand, has been a major character in some pretty big stuff, both TV and movies. I would hope he got a decent payout from all the non-commercial stuff he’s done-- otherwise maybe he should change agents!
And it’s not as if I begrudge him doing any commercials-- as has been mentioned, it’s pretty common for bigger stars to do commercials these days. It’s just the online gambling commercials that he (and others like Kevin Hart and Neil Patrick Harris) have done that I find kind of icky. But I’m sure those commercials have big gambling money payouts to the actors (not so much the poor sucker consumers who see the commercials and are convinced to gamble their money away).
I always felt bad for Colin Ferguson who was the lead actor in Eureka on Syfy (urg) for several seasons, and then ended up pretending to be appliances for Maytag commercials
Even more so once you realize the plot revolves around the personal turmoil of a handsome Hollywood gynecologist (Richard Gere) whose clients all have the hots for him.
It’s not the worst film, but it’s definitely not great, despite a semi-star-studded cast.
Yeah. That story premise reminds me of the ultrasoft porn-lite crap on that one high-numbered scrambled channel on some cable systems back in the 1970s. All set-up, no delivery.
I have always thought that the creators of that show specifically hired Nimoy to host that show, under the supposition that “Mr. Spock” would lend an air of logic and credibility to the goofy pseudoscience topics and conspiracy theories that they covered.
