I’ll admit, I love Luke Wilson – big time fan. But there is no other commercial campaign on television right now that makes me cringe as much as these AT&T ads he’s starring in – yes, even worse than the Old Navy’s Super Modelquins. It’s time to put an end to them, because he comes across as being a pompous jerk. Apparently, it must be due to the fact that Luke is miserable during the filming, talking back to directors and requesting lines be rewritten for him.
Per Fox 411:
“Luke was awful during the filmings – he would even talk back to the director,” said our source close to the TV spot. “He refused to say lines and wanted them re-written. There were some lines meant to direct the commercial in a certain way, but Luke downright refused to say the lines at all. Luke kept saying, ‘I would never say that and I will not say that!’ The staff and production teams were shocked.”
“Luke will not shoot scenes with other actors,” said our snitch. “Any scenes that include Luke and someone else were shot with the actors separately. He would not do scenes with anyone, so doubles are used and the scenes are edited together to make the commercials work.”
Well, what do you expect from an actor who goes from a movie like “Old School” to a television commercial? The Fox 411 report goes on to surmise that Wilson wants to be focusing on his movie career, which calls into question why he signed a contract for a series of TV ads in the first place – but whatever, and is taking it out on anyone within AT&T reach. I’m sure a reputation like that will surely get him a ton of movie offers – everyone loves to work with an ego like that!
“Everyone misses the old days when they didn’t have a ‘name’ doing the commercials,” our source said. “Luke has made the filming process so unpleasant that people dread working with him. Luke is annoyed that he has to do commercials to make money as an actor and he makes the experience miserable, because he’s miserable. It’s unprofessional and unpleasant.”
I don’t blame him. I think he’s still above doing commercials and I was a little surprised to see him in one the other day. They should be glad he’s signing up for the gig. Luke, if you need money, just do some horrible romantic comedy. Because from the sound of it, you don’t like doing these commercials anymore than we like watching them.
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