Big Names In

[emmie]

adverts, do these big film stars need the money i wonder...
Now it's Al Pacino in one, last time Brad Pitt.

[emmie]

Bruce Willis too, die hard 10 not enough....

[VHG]

Often it is a lot of money for very little work.

I wonder how much Paul Whitehouse has earned from the Aviva adverts he has been doing for the last couple of years.

[emmie]

no idea, but those with Paul are some of the most irritating of them all.

[Peter Pedant]

they have to eat I suppose.

I like see ing the ones who make it big later.

Fatso Gangbo Ross Kemp used to Rice Crispies about twenty years ago.

[ABerrant]

Big (and little) stars have always done adverts for the reason given by VHG. In the good old days they japandered themselves (Japander: n.,& v.t. a western star who uses his or her fame to make large sums of money in a short time by advertising products in Japan that they would probably never use) - decades of such behaviour has obviously removed any remnants of shame in being seen in Western adverts.

[emmie]

perhaps but these are still big stars, they don't need the dosh...

[Psybbo]

James Nesbit too

[emmie]

tv actors perhaps, doubt he is a multi millionaire, whereas Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, and Al Pacino are.

[emmie]

unless of course they are skint from too much alimony to previous spouses.

[ABerrant]

Since you mention Willis and Pitt, you can view 20 years of their japandering here...

http://www.japander.com/japander/willis.htm

http://www.japander.com/japander/pitt.htm
http://www.japander.com/japander/pitt2.htm

[emmie]

didn't realise he had been in so many.

[doctordb]

Many Star actors will often do an advert to help fund an Indy project they really want be in.

[emmie]

can't see what Brad got out of his aftershave ad.. or whatever that was.

[doctordb]

Brad's Chanel advert was pure ego. He began his carrier as a model.

[doctordb]

Career!

[granny grump]

That's spooky - I was just sat thinking that to myself when this thread popped up in latest posts. I had taped the Phil Spector biopic with Al Pacino on the off chance that it might be good and that set me thinking - why would he star in something like that and why the adverts? It just felt as if you were reading my mind - Have I been bugged?? do I need to update my firewall?

[doctordb]

Brad Pitts Levis' advert landed him his breakthrough role in Thelma and Louise.

[emmie]

not bugged, maybe esp..

[emmie]

but he was an unknown, these are big big names in Hollywood now, and command millions, so why do they need the money... saving for their old age...

[doctordb]

Plastic surgery isn't cheap. :)