You’d be surprised how many respectable actors participate in ad campaigns in foreign countries. Link
The only difference that I see is that John Lithgow doesn’t take himself as seriously.
I wouldn’t eat any soup that’s been pedalled by John Lithgow. That’s just gross.
Is his performance in the soup commercial not up to standard?
Again, why? It’s not as though he’s selling crack or clubbing baby seals. Doing soup commercials sounds like a pretty decent way to make a living, esp. if he’s being paid obscenely well (which is probably the case).
Quite the contrary. He does a magnificent job. He manages to take such a mundane product as canned soup and sound positively orgasmic over it.
There are few actors who could pull it off the way he does.
As John says on the soundtrack to Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Well, outside the porn industry.
Am I the only one whose heart leapt when he saw the title because he thought John Lithgow was dead? Ah, don’t scare me like that.
My guess is he makes the commercials for the buttload of money they pay him. His acting merits are pretty well established (speaking of which I really like the songs I’ve heard from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), he has young kids to educate and will be retiring in a few years- no harm no foul. Better than hawking penis enlargements or thighmasters.
Perhaps he really likes soup.
I was personally hoping a few years back he would be either Humbert or Quilty in the remake of LOLITA and Dr. Zachary Smith in the movie LOST IN SPACE.
Nothing wrong with soup commercials.
I saw a bit with Sally Struthers, when someone asked why she did those Earn a College Degree from home ads, and mentioned everyone was laughing at her. She said she was laughing too…all the way to the bank.
It keeps his face out there.
I went to a presentation by James Doohan back before the first shuttle flew, about the work being done on the shuttle program. During the Q&A period, somebody asked him why he did Jason of Star Command, and his answer was, “Because I’m an actor and I have to work.”
I would like to state for the record that I saw Mr. Lithgow in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Broadway and he was superb.
I agree! John Lithgow does make me want to buy soup. I was pretty delighted by the commercial. He makes me smile.
No doubt about it, John does a magnificent job in the commercials. When he is singing and dancing, it really comes natural.
I guess I just think his talent is being mismanaged.
Ecxept that he uses the word “creamery” as an adjective :smack:
I would have done the commercial, as long as the writers allowed me to say “creamy butter” instead of creamery butter.
I just can’t see the appeal of this actor. He has seemed mediocre at best in pretty much everything I’ve seen him in. So it only seemed natural that he should appear in soup commercials.
My God, those are… PERFECT! Good call FriarTed !
(I think Humbert more than Quilty though? Aah, could do either I guess)
I see no-one has yet mentioned his role in 2010:The Year We Make Contact. I really loved that when I was a young 'un. (Then of course I discovered 2001)
In what was probably my closest brush with celebrity (other than being roommates with a future NFL player) I once was going out a revolving door while John Lithgow was coming in. I could’ve planted myself and trapped him, but I didn’t think quickly enough. Plus, I didn’t really have any reason to.
It seems many more celebrities are doing commercials.
Russell Crowe thinks it is disgraceful.
I forgot Lithgow was in 2010. Gonna have to view that again.
And thank you.
Now, to counter Lithgow (either H or Q) in LOLITA, I was thinking - Steve Martin (either Q or H)- and that was long before they decided to have Steve take another Peter Sellers role.