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Hassan i Sabbah · 2006-09-28, 04:15

So. I have my second ever advertising scoop. Like the last one, it's entirely trivial.

They are casting for a UK version of the 'Hello, I'm a Mac' spots in London at the moment. A dear friend of mine read for the role of Mac. Unusually for a casting, they made him sign non-disclosure papers before the casting.

Voila. There's going to be ads with British Macs.

You heard it here first.

If you have anything important to do today, try and forget you read this.

soma · 2006-09-28, 04:26

Can't ever recall seeing ads for Mac computers in the UK...plenty of iPod action mind.

intlplby · 2006-09-28, 04:37

i really hope it's a propa cockney accent they use like Ali G...... that would be wikked.

macleod · 2006-09-28, 05:26

Ali G would be hilarious!

Fahrenheit · 2006-09-28, 05:28

Ali G and Ricky Gervais (playing David Brent).

staph · 2006-09-28, 05:39

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Originally Posted by Hassan i Sabbah

Unusually for a casting, they made him sign non-disclosure papers before the casting.

I see he takes his contractual obligations seriously.

I reckon Brian Blessed would make a pretty good Mac.

Bryson · 2006-09-28, 05:53

Nondescript cool english guy with southern but not cockney accent as Mac. Ricky Gervais (aka David Brent) as PC would be truest to the US format.

chucker · 2006-09-28, 05:58

Sounds like I should play the jackass Mac role.

intlplby · 2006-09-28, 05:59

how about John Cleese as the PC

Fahrenheit · 2006-09-28, 06:09

Ricky Gervais as PC, and david tennant as mac. (He plays the current dr.who)

and

Although saying that, Brent has already done a Microsoft training video:
Here(worth a watch by the way)

Hassan i Sabbah · 2006-09-28, 06:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by staph

I see he takes his contractual obligations seriously.

He literally called me on the way out of the casting!

scratt · 2006-09-28, 06:41

This is very cool from Apple's market share point of view... Advertising in the UK!

Although, to be honest... The hollywood geek style of voice that the current Mac guy has is kind of the way I have always envisaged an anthropomorphized Apple computer to speak.

And the PeeCee guy is kind of English in the way he speaks anyway, and also how I would envisage a human incarnation of a PeeCee...

Why don't they just stick with them... !??!

AWR · 2006-09-28, 07:20

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Originally Posted by Farenheit

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This picture is great; David Brent plugging PCs would be hilarious.

That said, both actors are perhaps too famous and might distract from the message.

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soma Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Manchester, England.	2006-09-28, 04:26 Can't ever recall seeing ads for Mac computers in the UK...plenty of iPod action mind.
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intlplby Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2004	2006-09-28, 04:37 i really hope it's a propa cockney accent they use like Ali G...... that would be wikked.
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macleod Now in lower-case™! Join Date: Feb 2006	2006-09-28, 05:26 Ali G would be hilarious!
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Fahrenheit Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2005	2006-09-28, 05:28 Ali G and Ricky Gervais (playing David Brent).
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Bryson Rocket Surgeon Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The Canadark	2006-09-28, 05:53 Nondescript cool english guy with southern but not cockney accent as Mac. Ricky Gervais (aka David Brent) as PC would be truest to the US format.
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chucker ‽ Join Date: May 2004 Location: near Bremen, Germany	2006-09-28, 05:58 Sounds like I should play the jackass Mac role.
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intlplby Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2004	2006-09-28, 05:59 how about John Cleese as the PC
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Fahrenheit Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2005	2006-09-28, 06:09 Ricky Gervais as PC, and david tennant as mac. (He plays the current dr.who) and Although saying that, Brent has already done a Microsoft training video: Here(worth a watch by the way)
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