Adam Scott, within the essential moments earlier than filming a scene, is preoccupied along with his grooming, not his traces, and that’s an issue even earlier than he launches right into a story about his dad’s full and fabulous beard.
The actor—an affable scene-stealer identified for Parks and Recreation, Get together Down and Severance—is starring as himself in an advert for Philips Norelco, sitting in a make-up chair and waxing on about his facial hair heroes. The crew member attempting to get him to deal with the upcoming shoot wants to speak script, not scruff, however he’s having no luck.
It’s the type of awkwardly endearing alternate that followers have come to count on from Scott, who lately kicked off a partnership with Philips Norelco centered on a 60-second advert for the OneBlade electrical shaver. (The model calls him a “facial hair fanatic.”)
The deal, which is able to embody future content material round Father’s Day, again to highschool and Christmas, is a part of the model’s effort to “empower folks to outline their distinctive types with confidence,” based on Rafael Viestel da Silva, advertising and marketing director of Philips Grooming and Magnificence.
Scott stated he’s been a model loyalist for years, after studying concerning the OneBlade from make-up artists on his numerous jobs. The outreach from Philips Norelco was “sheer coincidence” however completely natural, giving him an opportunity to make use of some real-life experiences as fodder for the advertising and marketing program.
As he says within the video, Scott realized to shave by watching motion pictures and TV reveals. (And his father actually did, and does, have a good-looking beard).
“There was not quite a lot of shaving in my home whereas I used to be rising up, so my notion of it was largely shaped by way of motion pictures and TV–one in every of my favorites was James Spader shaving in a fuel station rest room in Intercourse, Lies and Videotape,” Scott advised Adweek. “As a teen, that seemed so cool to me, and I simply needed to emulate guys like that.”
