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UPMC
Sept 15, 2018 16:12:17 GMT
Post by MagdaFR on Sept 15, 2018 16:12:17 GMT
Is it confirmed it is him?
I don't see any problem with doing voiceover. It is an easy way to make money. It'd be very weird BC dressed like a doctor or as a pacient waiting for a liver transplant.
Also, it could be they helped someone he knows or a charity he helps and did it for free.
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UPMC
Sept 15, 2018 16:34:19 GMT
Post by mllemass on Sept 15, 2018 16:34:19 GMT
I don’t think he’d do all that for free, but it did occur to me that night have had some personal connection to this organization.
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UPMC
Sept 15, 2018 17:07:46 GMT
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Post by Hannah Lee on Sept 15, 2018 17:07:46 GMT
Is it confirmed it is him? I don't see any problem with doing voiceover. It is an easy way to make money. It'd be very weird BC dressed like a doctor or as a pacient waiting for a liver transplant. Also, it could be they helped someone he knows or a charity he helps and did it for free. Yeah, it could be with someone he knows. Plus BC’s never been shy about not passing up work. Years ago he made a few mentions about watching his parents’ careers and getting a sense that you never know where your next work was coming from. He’s been doing voiceover work like this for years: Pimms, banks and insurance, Jaguar. This is just the latest. Probably an easy paycheck and a chance to polish/practice his voice work. And maybe to work with a particular producer/production company he’s wanted to work with. Who knows? It’s not surprising, in any case.
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Post by miriel68 on Sept 15, 2018 18:19:38 GMT
Is it confirmed it is him? I don't see any problem with doing voiceover. It is an easy way to make money. It'd be very weird BC dressed like a doctor or as a pacient waiting for a liver transplant. Also, it could be they helped someone he knows or a charity he helps and did it for free. Oh, please don't put ideas into my head: all I can see now is B. dressed like a patient and smiling to a lovely nurse, lol Also, if you want to skip the line to liver transplant you usually need to be a rich patient.
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UPMC
Sept 15, 2018 19:05:34 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Sept 15, 2018 19:05:34 GMT
Someone said somewhere (I don’t remember where!) that Blythe Danner used to do their voiceovers. I’m not sure he is very close to her but they thought it could a connection between the actors because Patrick Melrose. It’s clear they use celebrities, tho. The only time he left me in shock with a random appearance was when he recorded a video for an American TV show about celebrities dancing! He was actually greeting a friend but when someone said he will be on the show I thought: WTF, he is a serious actor!!! I think he did something similar for Judge Rinder in the UK. We have to accept it: nothing is below him! 😉 He likes to work, he is faithful to his friends and if there is a good paycheck he will do it! We are the pretentious ones! EDITED: This brief video:
People were he will be on Dancing with the Stars tonight and I was: WTF?!!! LOL
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UPMC
Sept 15, 2018 20:17:17 GMT
Post by queenzod on Sept 15, 2018 20:17:17 GMT
Because they paid him a shitload of money? Supersheds don’t build themselves, you know. 😂
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UPMC
Sept 15, 2018 22:00:51 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Sept 15, 2018 22:00:51 GMT
Perhaps they just had a shitload of money and wanted Ben’s soothing baritone for their liver transplant ads. 😃 Quite probably! But why is he doing this? It seems to me a kind of step back: it is one thing to do a commercial in which you are an asset as yourself (like Le Couturier or earlier Dunlop) and another to just read a commercial. A step back? To do a voice over for a nonprofit organization that does all sorts of community outreach work and is prominent in cancer research in the UK? It isn't like he is schlepping low cost mortgages! LOL! 😂
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Post by onebluestocking on Sept 16, 2018 5:45:00 GMT
Remember, he was in Zoolander 2!
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UPMC
Sept 16, 2018 10:11:17 GMT
Post by queenzod on Sept 16, 2018 10:11:17 GMT
Hell, he could do an infomercial for magic wringing mops and I’d still watch it. Just imagine him, sleeves rolled up, pushing a mop gently yet firmly over the fake stretch of flooring, dancing with the mop, using his deepest and most sultry voice to tell us about its utterly phenominal absorbent qualities. Sigh. ☺️
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UPMC
Sept 16, 2018 10:45:18 GMT
Post by miriel68 on Sept 16, 2018 10:45:18 GMT
Hell, he could do an infomercial for magic wringing mops and I’d still watch it. Just imagine him, sleeves rolled up, pushing a mop gently yet firmly over the fake stretch of flooring, dancing with the mop, using his deepest and most sultry voice to tell us about its utterly phenominal absorbent qualities. Sigh. ☺️ Oh, I would kill to see him doing this! Do you remember the "commercial" of WC in SNL? LOL. Seriously, I don't think there is any "charitable" motivation other than a fat paycheck behind this commercial. UPMC has been criticised for spending exorbitant money on advertising, so I am sure they gave him lavish honorary. And I am not sure I really like the ad about liver-transplant: reminds me I am not rich enough to pay a kind of health insurance needed to skip the line (there is an UPMC in Rome, as well). And doing voice-over for commercials is a perfectly honest way of doing money. However, he hasn't done it for a while, has he?
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