Actor Allusion/Advertising

Examples of Actor Allusions in Advertising.

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• A Toy Story 3 themed ad for US Postal Services flat rate boxes had Hamm the piggy bank informing the group about the service while wearing a postal hat and bag. Hamm is voiced in the films by John Ratzenberger, who's most known for playing a postman on this one TV series...
  • Ratzenberger also was the spokesman for Pitney-Bowes Personal Post Office.
• During the second Old Spice campaign with "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like", Old Spice had him answer random tweets to @OldSpice...and a random tweet from one @IsaiahMustafa. Unfortunately, this does not qualify as Talking to Himself.
• With credit to The Other Wiki for pointing out the reference: The original ad campaign for XM Satellite Radio featured famous musicians falling from the sky and crashing into various mundane settings. David Bowie fell into a motel room, looked skyward and murmured, "I'll never get used to that."
• In one of the recent Jaguar Cars ads featuring Tom Hiddleston as an Evil Brit Bond-style villain, Nicholas Hoult plays his Mad Scientist subordinate who's upgrading the newest Jaguars. Hoult comments, "We've already created a beast. Now it's time for a new animal." Hoult played Dr. Hank McCoy, the Beast in X-Men films.