Saturday, July 11, 2015

The most interesting man in the world

ETonline interviews Jonathan Goldsmith, the actor in the Dos Equis television commercials. They say of him that his real life is as interesting as the things said of him in the ad, hyperbole along the lines of Chuck Norris jokes, that he speaks French in Russian and that sharks have a week dedicated to him.


You see, IT, the flaw in your assessment is all of Jonathan Goldsmith's life anecdotes are acting-related and not life-related, and Jonathan Goldsmith's acting-related anecdotes are not the most interesting in the world. They're barely interesting at all. Whereas Omar Sharif is interesting in other areas of living a somewhat dangerous and risky life and with acting being only a part of it, but what a part.

2 comments:

edutcher said...

He was, apparently, a very cultivated and intelligent man.

Too bad addiction got him.

He could have had a brilliant career, but, as he said, he was always the guy with the accent. The "creative people" very often seem to have little imagination.

AllenS said...

I Googled "the most interesting man in the world" some years ago, and was pleasantly surprised that he was interesting.