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This was so much fun!!!! I'm bored and I'll keep answering. LOL In Hollywood on lockdown! So I'm going to end it and say THANKS. Have a great Spring forward!!!! If you want to watch some funny videos I made here is the channel. M&M's guy OUT!!!...https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYlLeIT28R0ZapTCPZbwnWQ
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| That's pretty neat! Did you develop a crippling addiction to m&ms because of this? | Ha!! No. When i was a kid i lived in Sweden and there is a brand of chocolate called Marabou that is my only real chocolate addiction. They have them at Ikea. European chocolate is made with cocoa butter so it's smoother. Next time you are at Ikea try some. But i will always eat m&M's. I go for the peanut ones if I have an option just for the protein. I'm lucky I was in a commercial for a product i really like and am proud to sell. And i'm totally serious. |
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| I'll remember that - to eat M&M's for the protein value. | And gummi candy. For real. It has gelatin not just corn syrup. Gummi bears are actual food |
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| Mmmm... horse hooves. (Just kidding!) | When my grandma told me that when i was a kid i was devastated...for about 190 seconds. Then dug right back into my cherry jello. |
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| The old joke is - two things people should never see being made are laws and sausages. Friend of mine worked in a potato chip factory in college, told me he'd never eat potato chips again - all about the way they do things like scoop spilled chips off the floor, occasional lapses of hygiene, etc. When the Scarborough Light Rail first opened in Toronto, it went past a pickle factory. People saw giant open vats of pickles being ... pickled; outdoors, no cover, so the birds fly over and poop in them, insects probably dying in the vinegar, etc. After a slew of negative press (1970's) the plant quickly covered things up. My grade 3 teacher (early 1960's) had a summer job in college where they would watch beer bottles go by on the conveyor (before automation); there was a bright light behind the bottle and their job was to catch the part-empty ones and... if there was something like a mouse head in the bottle. We really don't want to know how our food is made. | Potato Chips??? Seriously?? But they are fried in boiling oil and you can see exactly what they are? I mean sure there are rodent hairs in everything. I don't eat that many chips anyway. I'm going to assume that rodent hair and droppings fried in boiling oil won't hurt you. Hmmmm Salt and Vinegar or BBQ?? |
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| Du är välkommen tillbaka! ~ Halvsvenne | Tack. Jag längtar efter Stockholm. |
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| I'm loving this Marabou shout-out. I live in England now, but am Danish, I miss Marabou soooo much! My favourite is the "apelsinkrokant" one :) | Va då!!! Nej!! Frukt & Mandel. Skojar bara. (Swedish is rusty) |
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| If you use any fat other than cocoa butter in the US (other than milkfat in milk chocolate), it can't legally be called chocolate. EU regulations are actually less strict about this. https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/05/chocolate-candy-and-the-law/ | Ok. Maybe they use it here too. I'll read the ingredients. |
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| I actually used to work for a cocoa processor. The type of milk content they use in Europe is different, but American chocolate definitely also uses cocoa butter. While making cocoa, the butter is literally squeezed out of it by a hydraulic press so you can make the powder (called cakes). From there, it goes through different processes to make the various forms of chocolate. For example, Oreos are made by processing this into Jet Black cocoa through an extremely caustic alkanization process. Milk chocolate is made by combining the cocoa back with butter and other ingredients. Dark chocolate is made through similar methods, generally just with more cocoa being used and less sugar/milk. My least favorite (milk chocolate) is almost entirely just cocoa butter, which is (AFAIK) what gives it that fatty color. | Hmm. I guess the milk content is what makes it creamier in Europe. Ikea chocolate is from Spain and it's really good. That is interesting. Thanks. |
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| Haha what the hell! I was just about to write in the thread - not a question but a fact: your last name sounds real fun in a certain language 'cause it means "crazy" ... but well if you know your mjölkchoklad well then you already know this. :) | It also means healer in greek. In Sweden I spell and pronounce it Gälen. But that doesn't fool my friends who know me. LOL |
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| Lmao. Justifying your preference for peanut m&m's as protein. | I grasp for those straws with BOTH hands. |
| What was your favorite part when doing the commercial? | Obviously I liked doing my part when we were shooting. Shutting the door in people's faces is fun. But making the costume was also fun. They wanted to cover my chest with fake blood which is awful and sticky and would have been miserable to deal with for 10 hours so I recommended cutting out the red pool of blood from the knife package and attacking that to my chest (That's what it was). I knew that would be way easier to deal with than the sticky fake blood. And the client liked my idea because i mentioned that it is a food product and maybe we don't want a big bloody mess just a little cardboard cut out of some blood and they bought it. I was so happy. |
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| I love it when people think my idea is great lol | It feels good!! |
| What is an acting role you would like to play? | I am working on a one man play about Truman Capote called Tru. Hope to do it in NYC when theater opens. I made this little webseries with friends and i would love to play this character of Rodney more if it can develop into a series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvZACe9_NKI&t=4s |
| This is a very strange and beautiful example of how the internet works. A man whose day of work was translated into photons and sound waves which elicited neuronal activity in a young tetrapods' brain many years ago and now that same brain has the opportunity to interact with a facet of that temporal experience. Why is blue the best M&M? | Are you the tetrapod? Define 'best' so as not to be subjective. |
| What's it like to be invited to a party? | I only throw parties. And everyone is already there...for 20 years!!!! |
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| So...... you got to play bouncer at a cut-price Hotel California to Billy West and J.K Simmons? | Living it up! It was my Halloween party, not a hotel. I was more of a doorman than bouncer. I had people who would handle the rough stuff. I didn't want to mess up my hair. |
| Does this ad still pay you out 21 years later? | They stopped running it two years ago. Up till then...YES!! |
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| How old were you when it first aired? | Early 20's |
| Did you get paid every year? the same amount? | Yes. It actually increased each year. |
| Have you ever tried smarties (the Canadian/ british smarties, not american ones)? Also I would like to say I appreciate how you're taking the time to reply to practically every comment :). | There is a Swedish candy called Non-stop that is my favorite 'European m&M's". But if I'm in an airport somewhere (Heathrow for example) I LOVE buying foreign candy bars i don't know. LOVE Flake bars. Toffee Crisp. Sweden has a candy called Kex Chocolat which is my absolute favorite food on the planet. |
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| I mean, funnily enough there was some legal conflict with M&Ms some years ago. Cause Marabou has some version called simply "M" I think, which happens to be veeery similar to M&Ms.... And this supposedly lead to M&Ms not being allowed to continue selling here, IIRC.... (Which sounded weird to me) Yet you still had no problems finding M&Ms in stores after those news. Well, I dunno..... But yes nonstop are addictive. They live up to their name... | Any Marabou product.....I was at Ikea in Burbank yesterday and got a bag of Dumle and Dajm. Dumle is Fazer which is also very good.. who makes Dajm? Can't tell. Mondelez it says. |
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| They have a milk chocolate kind in Norway now, it's even better. | What's it called?? I 'm eating mini Dumle and Dajm from Ikea right now. |
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| And it looks like this. | Not fair. |
| Have you been approached to reprise your role in another commercial? This is how I would do it: A child dressed as an M&M approaches a quiet house on Halloween. He rings the doorbell and the Yellow M&M answers. Yellow: Wow, what a great costume! Red, come here. You gotta see this. Red (off screen): I’m coming, I’m coming. (Annoyed) What is it? Red appears. Red (begrudgingly): Well isn’t that flattering? ... Wait, don’t I know you? Cut to the child’s parent, played by you. Parent: Listen guys, I don’t want any trouble. Red: No trouble for you, and no candy for you. (Red takes the candy out of the trick or treaters bag) Parent: Really, guys? (Parent and kid walk away) Red walks away from door back into house. Yellow waves at parent and child. Red (off screen): Put your hand down. | You can't make a commercial where you deny a REAL trick or treating child candy on Halloween!!!!! Are you INSANE???? And also I GAVE them candy I just didn't let them in so we need some re-writes for sure. Let's think outside the box a little. I'm thinking a Benjamin Button type situation where I am shrunken and hungry and desperate and having to atone for past transgressions. |
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| Hey, did you have traditional acting lessons and all that and go through auditions for this? or was it path through as a featured extra? | No I studied with a lady named Uta Hagen and her husband Herbert Berghof for three years before i started booking jobs. |
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| Uta Hagen is a legend! Looks like Berghof is, too, though I hadn't heard of him. Great way to start out your career. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iERniZ9Crlc It was invaluable. I went from their classes onto a Broadway stage in Lost in Yonkers |
| Never caught this ad in New Zealand and the idea of one running for 20 years is pretty insane. What's that like to have such a constant reminder of your previous work aired? | Honestly. It was like a little ego trip each year. Friends call and text. I'm a celebrity to my friends for a week again. That's how it is with commercials. I used to get drunken calls from friends in bars telling me to talk to some stranger they met because they just saw me in a commercial. It can be a little silly. Now my friends don't get so drunk anymore. They are older. LOL. |
| Did you get any free M&Ms? | M&M's never sent me a 'care package' of appreciation if that's what you mean. And I definitely would have loved that. LOL. A lifetime supply would have been great....for obesity. LOL. That's not how it works. I'm a hired professional, not a contest winner. I do my job and get paid. With what they pay me I can buy my own dang candy thank you!! LOL |
| During the casting rehearsals, did you ever meet any other actors that have appeared in popular commercials or made it big? | I have been a working actor for 30 years. Many big stars started out doing commercials and we all hung out in those casting sessions. There was a group of us that were always called in so we weren't competitive cause we knew it was out of our hands so we were all friendly and felt a bond. Jeremy Renner, Norman Reedus and others were always around at that time, |
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| Do you have Norman Reedus' phone number? | No. |
| What’s your favorite M&M commercial? | The one with the cowboys and the aliens when they are riding on the flying elephant through the tunnel of confusion into the spinning vortex of helplessness and they are crushed by the falling piano. That one is my favorite!! They look so cute in it. |
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| Are you sure that wasn't just some dream you had? | Not sure at all. About anything. |
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| Peanuts are clearly the best M&Ms. Is there anything interesting that you learned from filming a candy commercial? | It's food. You are selling food. Don't get clever. Don't get too outside the box. People are eating what you are selling so we didn't go as gross as the production team wanted when the client saw it. |
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| That’s what I was thinking earlier in the AMA when you were talking about telling them not to use LIQUID FAKE BLOOD in a candy tv ad for kids! What were they thinking?! lol. So the M&Ms client agreed to a general storyboard but they wouldnt have seen those details yet until the final shooting and edit? Wow. I bet they would have assumed it’d be gore-free lol. It’s gory enough to have the unseen implication in every food character ad, that they’re saying “eat me! I’m delicious!” :) | Exactly. And I wanted the ad to run so i was against anything controversial. But more importantly...I didn't want that shit on me all night. it would get all over everything. It would get cold. it would get on my hands . They would have to keep reapplying every take. I knew it would ruin my personal comfort which is big on a chilly night shoot. I would make the sacrifice if i felt it was worth it. This wasn't. |
| Did you play Evil Ed in Fright Night? | Nope. I was Kyle in Brainscan! |
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| Ooooo I downloaded the Windows 3.1 screensaver of Brainscan back then lol I was just recently thinking I need to see that again. You were in that? I can’t waaaaiit to see what you do nexxxxxxxttttt.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainscan | I was Eddie's best friend Kyle Hilliard (I think that was my name) |
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| Watched that with my buddy a couple years ago! What a weird movie. Loved it. | Poor Eddie was starting his downward spiral in THAT movie because of his 'tutor' who was actually his girlfriend and he was 15. Crazy. I think her name was Jackie. SHE was weird. The whole thing had a weird vibe. We shot it in Montreal. |
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| Oh wow. I didn't know that about Edward Furlong. I know he had a bit of a troubled life. Reading his wikipedia regarding Jackie, yeah that's real weird. Did she hang around set with him a lot? | She was attached to him. It was creepy. and she was sort of ugly. i didn't get it. There were really cute girls his age hanging around who found out he was there and he had no interest in them. just his weird tutor. Poor kid. He was a nice kid. But lost. |
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| That's the saddest thing I expect to hear all day. Now I really feel for that guy. Hope he's doing better. Guess the child fame thing got him. | Honestly it's more the 'bad parent' thing. That will affect you no matter if you are a kid actor or just some nose picking kid in third grade. if you have good parents you will do much much better. there are a lot of kid actors who did fine cause they had good parents. No one talks about them. Think about all the fucked up people you know... not actors...just bad parents probably. Sorry. It is a heady profession but it doesn't make you an asshole. The rest of your life does. |
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| FUCK! One of my favorite movies! Can't believe it took me this long to recognize you! | Kyle! i'm a chameleon. |
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| You and Ed Furlong remain buds after the flick? | God no. I'll just leave this here....https://www.reddit.com/r/Terminator/comments/ilc3fe/jacqueline_louise_domac_was_29_when_she_started/ |
| Is this an M&M’s commercial? Should you be getting paid for this? | I'll do this free, after twenty years i owe them. LOL |
| How does one get into voice acting? I have pretty good range; can hit the C# below my low E guitar string. I'm also very good at accents and impressions. My great nieces and nephews love them? Are any of the courses offered online worth it? Any help would be appreciated. | No idea. |
| You're a fucking asshole. Why'd you throw the candy at them instead of giving them the candy directly? Why did you laugh at them when they were clearly older than 4 or 5? | Because I was PLAYING a fucking asshole and i did it very well. I accept your compliment. |
| How do you even go about auditioning for a commercial? What advice would you give to someone who wants to get in to your line of work? | Your agent send you to an audition. It's a long process of getting an agent and you have to live somewhere they make commercials like NYC or LA. |
| What led you to do this AMA? | Boredom and also I just spent like three months making this video with some professional actor friends and The Mc Rib Lady so it would be nice to get it some views. Also it's a Tuesday night and there isn't much else going on. This is the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvZACe9_NKI&t=8s |
| Oh wow I remember seeing this ad in french TV (i'm french) here it is with french voice over if anyone is curious, how does it feel to know the ad was probably seen all over the globe where m&m's are sold? ahah | Viva la difference!! |
| Have you auditioned for any M&M commercials since this one? | No. Wow. You would think they would just make an offer if i was up for one. LOL |
| Is Halloween your favorite holiday? If not, which holiday is, and how do you hope to celebrate this year? | Of course Halloween was better when I got paid. But it's still great. Of course i like the celebration of Christmas. I was raised Christian so it has a lot of wonderful memories. |
| how much have your residuals dropped? | 100% as of 2 years ago when they made a new one and stopped running it. Before that they kept going up. That's how it works...and maybe why they made a new one. |
| Great commercial man! First question: how did you become an actor? And how did they contacted you? Like what was the thing they wanted you and not someone else for this clip... | I wanted to be an actor since I saw Tom Sawyer in the theater in like 1972 and wanted to climb into the screen and be Tom Sawyer. Then I failed out of college on purpose (had to go) and luckily I grew up an hour outside of NYC so I moved back home and stated studying and eventually started working. But i started young. |
| I remember you from the X-Files, Ivan Martinez! :) What is your favorite role that you've played? TV or movie or stage. | Ivan was fun. I did a pilot called Killer App with Ming Na and Stephen Lang. Directed by Robert Altman. You can only see it on my youtube channel because it never got made into a series. I think it's some good work. I'm enjoying the thing I'm making now because I get to create it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fesJbkZjH84 |
| Have you ever dressed up as your commercial character for Halloween? How did people react? | That would be a little too much. That's actually a funny idea if i went around NOW dressed as the character...30 years later...at my age...looking for recognition. "Remember me I'm the M&M's guy?" except I am now a pathetic crazy person. |
| What is your favorite flavor of M&M? | Peanut. |
| How did you get started in acting for commercials? | I did a Broadway play and it closed. I did a movie, Brainscan and the money ran out. I needed money for rent and food so I got a commercial agent through a casting director friend Lisa Fields. She got me a really good agent and I booked a huge commercial right away so i was off and running. it was a Sega Genesis in like 1994?? Around the time of Brainscan. i was cooking!! |
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| Thank you for answering my question! | It was my pleasure. I never really thought about it like that before. it makes sense. I needed money. I made money. Win win. And I get to do a cool Iama. |
| I remember this commercial all through my childhood, that’s so awesome! I’m sorry if I missed you answering this in a previous comment but was this your first commercial? Or did you have others before it? I’m interested in getting into acting as a long time dream of mine just to say I actually tried it more than creating a career out of it. | No. I was an old pro by the time I did thin in my early twenties. LOL. |
| You should do a sex tape with the "Huh?" guy. | Set it up! |
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| I'll pull some strings if you promise to follow through. | Backpedaling furiously!!! |
| Do you think you jinxed yourself by posting that original AMA, where you talked about your ad running forever or whatever it was, which then turned out to be the same year that they stopped running your ad? | That AMA was about X-Files. Someone asked if i'd been in anything else they'd seen and i mentioned the commercial. Maybe I jinxed myself by mentioning that. It had stopped running from 2007-20010 so I was under no illusions that it was going to take me till retirement. In a way maybe I wanted something to force me out of my comfort zone. You can get into a rut and it seems like a groove. Now i have to find work or i'll be screwed so I'm doing a one man play soon and I am trying to create content which I never did. i hijacked a viral video and edited myself into it and then kept going. I was inspired by Joe Exotic..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iERniZ9Crlc |
| [deleted] | Jeeze. You're talking about the 90's. Maybe six inches? |
| Has this claim to fame changed how you feel about Halloween? Do you host crazy parties or anything? Has it given you a spooky streak? (Asking as a weird kitchy halloween obsessed person haha) | I definitely looked forward to Halloween way more. Like way way way more. I never dressed up cause that seemed like overkill. Also when you've had professional costumes and makeup your own effort seems way less than. It's enough I was in costume on TV I didn't have to overdo it. Or something. Maybe I was lazy. Or shy. Or both |
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| JK SIMMONS IS THE PEANUT M&M?! | I think you are right. |
| Do you think you should be paid as much as the voice actors for iconic characters? There are 3 characters in the ad, and only 1 is entirely replaceable. | The original voice actors were john Goodman and Jon Lovitz I think. I don't get as much as them because I'm not worth as much as them status wise. You are 100% correct that I am 'replaceable'. That's the nature of the biz. Do you mean they could reshoot it with a different actor? That wouldn't be cost effective unless they got a celebrity. |
| Are you aware that this is the best AMA I’ve ever read? Possibly the best that has ever been? We’ll use this AMA as an example of how they should work for the next 20 years. Seriously, great job! | Uhhh. Ok. 'I'm just trying to stay positive.' What was that Bill Murray kept saying in What About Bob every time he got a compliment. 'Just trying to s†ay hopeful!' Something like that. What a great movie. Thanks if you are sincere. Thanks even more if not. LOL. |
| OK, where's the petition we can sign to get you on a new commercial? Like, you meet the M&M dudes again, and they're shocked you aged and question their existence because they still look the same. I'm very sleepy. I'm getting my vaccine today and by the time I realized how late it was, I realized I'd have to wake up in like 2 hours, so I just stayed up. I was drawing lol. | We don't need a new one (but thank you). Let's just keep the old classic going!!! |
| So what did you do after this Jamie? | Went home and did some bong hits at dawn then slept till around two and got up and hung out with friends probably. |
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| Like it | The life of an actor. |
| [deleted] | Neither. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyeuv9kBtUg I changed my name recently |
| Do you know the Zoom Zoom kid? | Dang that kid is loaded. Didn't he get a dui or something. |
| What's something interesting about your experience that I wouldn't even think or know to ask? | That night? Having to put peanut butter in my hair when i got home at like 7am to get out the Dax which is petroleum. Then I would use dollar store shampoo to get out the peanut butter...which was the cheapest walmart brand peanut butter i could get. That was a big part of booking jobs. That hair. And you could only get it with real pomade like dax. American crew products don't get that stiffness or just mess. You had to be crazy to put that shit in your hair in the first place. maybe that's part of why i booked it. But i got it out with peanut butter then dollar store shampoo. How's that?? If you ever get gum in your hair use peanut butter. it breaks it down. |
| How has no one asked about the fact Simmons got more than you for saying a single word? How did you book it, did you have an idea it was an M&M commercial before hand? Or was it more a surprise when you go there? | He's a top voice over actor. There is no comparison. i was just an unknown actor doing a commercial. I knew exactly what the spot was and auditioned with exactly what you saw me do. They want to know what they are getting. I guess i was just the right combo of smarmy/friendly to sell candy. |
| First I want to say that’s cool as hell and I love that commercial. Halloween is my favorite so when the commercials start it’s always a thrill. Second: you cool, man? | Chill Daddy-O. I don't know. My neurosis has sort of manifested itself in my art so i have an outlet. I'm just bored but it's fine. I just wrote and directed my very first thing which is a vertical video. That's The McRib Lady at the start. I'll post the link again like a whore.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvZACe9_NKI&t=4s. |
| I apologize if someone already asked this, but how did you land this role? What was the set like? Were you nervous knowing that millions of people would see you? | I got the audition through my agent. That's how it works. I had been a professional actor for a few years so I was over that initial excitement. I was more nervous the spot wouldn't run. Never dreamed it would run so long. |
| When was the commercial shot? Any stories or memories you'd like to share about it? | It was a house in Pasedena. One of the extras who was standing next to me kept asking the director is he could have a chance to say the line, hoping he would steal my job..things like that are strange. Made it a little awkward. People take their opportunity when they see it. |
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| How cringy was it when he attempted to do the line? That's crazy. | He never did it. He was background. I wasn't too worried. I had beaten a lot of people to be standing there and this guy wasn't going to do the part better than me I was pretty sure. But he saw his shot and he took it. And made it super cringy for himself...YES! |
| How were able to get royalties? Don’t they pay you for the one day? Did you have to negotiate to get that or is that standard now | It's the union SAG-AFTRA that makes sure it's all looked after. They get a small percentage and that's what they are for. And producers do NOT want to piss off SAG-AFTRA. |
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| So all actors in commercials get paid based off how many times the commercial airs? Or all actors in the union I should say | Very important distinction right there!! |
| Damn, they aren't running this one anymore? This commercial became part of the season for me. Just like the one where the M&M's scare Santa, or the Hershey Kiss bells for Christmas time. | Yes. They could bring it back... maybe. the new one kind of sucks...but i'm biased. |
| I know that the animated M&Ms were not there in the real world. But what was there. Were you talking to nothing or was there some sort of prop or how was that filmed? | Little dolls that size. The exact copies of the M&M's for eye line and stuff. |
| Hey nice job on the M&M commercial! They're some of my favorite candies! I've actually been thinking about getting in to acting for commercials. Is it worth it? Is the pay good? How do you even get into that sort of acting? | Get an agent. |
| Dude... You were Kyle in Brainscan right? I fucking loved that movie back in the day. | It's underrated. John Flynn was a great director and it was written by the guy who wrote Seven. It has prestige. |
| Wow, 20 years! Did you get free m&ms in addition to getting paid? Lol 😂 | Only on the set that night. They didn't send an annual care package no. But i could buy all i wanted with what they paid me. |
| I just watched the YouTube clip. I don’t remember that commercial, but I do remember Brainscan! Recognized you right away! Buddies forever? | Oh jeeze. Buddies forever. What a goofy line. |
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| Maybe, but it was memorable. | Thanks!! Buddies Forever! I call all my friends Buddy. All the time actually. But it's 'Hey Buddy". |
| are you the same Jamie from an episode of x-files with Constance Zimmer and The Lone Gunmen? | Yes. Jamie Marsh. I recently changed my name. I never liked the name Jamie Marsh |
| Are you being paid to do this AMA? | I wish. I'm getting views on my video which is cool. And it's fun. Now it's wednesday morning. Not much going on now either. |
| That's absolutely fucking AMAZING, how would someone possibly go about getting your autograph? Justtt curious 👀 | They should probably get therapy first. |
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| Alright appointment set, what now? | Send whatever (CASH!!) to Helen Sanders at The Actors Studio West 8341 De Longpre Ave, West Hollywood, CA 90069. I'll sign anything but a contract or black check, |
/u/groovyalibizmo Jamie, has anyone ever told you you look a little like Matt LeBlanc in that photo? |
Two or three times a day. LOL |
| Did you try out for the “they do exist” Christmas ad? They have been running that for longer than your I think. | Nope. |
| Are you bitter? | They didn't make the dark chocolate ones until recently. They were never in the spot. |
| Did you make enough fuck you money to retire young? | No. But enough to stay drunk for like 10 years. |
| How was the party? | Those extras were all trying to get in the shot so they were jumpin'. |
| What were Yellow and Red like in real life? | Bitter and abusive. |
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| They always say it's best not to meet your heroes. | When you idolize candy you just set yourself up, Kiddo!! |
| So... Plain or Peanut? | Peanut. |
| I’m confused. Why is anyone even remotely interested in this? | Really good question. i have no answer except it's an anamoly for a commercial to run that long. I guess it makes me 'special'. And so are you!!! In your own special way! (getting punchy) |
| How much money did you make over 20 years for that commercial? | That's personal. But it's NEVER EVER EVER ENOUGH!!! LOL |
| " for just doing the voices" shade much? | Constantly. I live in Hollywood. |
| Sometimes whenever I eat M&Ms, I like to hold two M&Ms in between my fingers and squeeze as hard as I can until one M&M cracks, I eat the cracked one, and the one that didn't crack becomes the champion. Then I grab another M&M and force it to compete with the champion in this deadly game of M&M gladiators. I do this until I run out of M&Ms and when there is only one M&M left standing, I send a letter to M&Ms brand with the champion M&M in it with a note attached that reads: "please use this M&M for breeding purposes." What color M&M would you be? | I wish I could give you credit for originality. But......where is that from? I'd definitely be blue. |
| I used to do TV adverts as a kid! I did an Arriva (bus) advert, an Argos christmas advert, and starred in an airline safety video for (I think?) Thompsons. Used to be a lot of fun! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I used to | Sets are a lot of fun. But also boring after a while. |
| Damn I can’t believe that commercial ran for 20 years lol I feel like I’ve seen that commercial my whole life lol I’m 30. So how’d you get the part and did it open anything else up for you? | That's what I do. I was pretty established when i booked it so i was on my way. The commercial was just a great payday every year. |
| Do people still recognize you and also, do you go around every party telling people about the commercial or have a video on your phone that you make people watch? Because you should | Nobody EVER recognized me ever. I never look the same someone once told me. |
| This AMA is probably long over, but you’ve worked with some important filmmakers, can you remember much from the set of Wild Bill or Montenegro? | I remember Dusan and Walter. |
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| Any stories to share? How were they as directors? | Susan Anspach hated Dusan but she was a little strange (both dead RIP). Walter Hill was sort of like a cowboy. Nice guy. Fun doing a western with him and i got to work with a hero John Hurt. |
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| Wow! Some film legends! I love Anspach’s work (as well as Hurt). Thanks for your responses! | No problemo. Susan was a trip. |
| Did you destroy your dressing room when they didn't read your rider specifically prohibiting brown M&Ms on the craft services table? | The entire trailer had to be refurbished. |
| Do you have any actors friends in PA willing to help a student in Pittsburgh make an indie film? | In a word...no. |
| Not sure if this has been asked but, did you act in anything else? Is acting your main income? | Yes. Yes. |
| Were you also in the Michael Bay commercial for milk? I'm pretty sure that was you... | Trying to think. maybe i did. Set in an asylum?? No that was a Sega Genesis by Kinka Usher. Don't think I worked with Nay but i did know his casting director Lisa Fields very well so I may have. |
| Hi! That's such a cool experience. Do you still get residuals from the commercial? | Hells yes. |
| Which ones do you prefer brown or yellows? And whats your favourite m&m colour? | The only thing I ever did with m&M's color wise...when i was a teenager I really liked reggae music so I would eat all the M&M's that weren't red, yellow and green (also the colors of a traffic light). Then I would have a bowl of red, yellow and green m&M's..which were reggae colors....then i would eat them. |
| Wait what? I knew about Billy Wedt but Jameson is an M&M too? That's awesome! | So glad you are happy. |
| JK Simmons as peanut? Now imagine the Eye tattoo on the back of his head. | Hmmm. |
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| OZ refrence. | Not into prison shows. The M&M's were sort of like Munchkins.... |
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| Yeah, I know. JK Simmons has had quite a career/ | I saw him play Capt. Hook on Broadway in 1991. You're not kidding. |
| Roughly how much did you make in residuals a year at the commercial's peak? | 30k |
| Was it weird to give M&M's to M&M's? Isn't that cannibalism? | No. Yes. |
| Do you get royalties? Is that even a thing for commercials? | Yes. They are called residuals. |
| [removed] | The whole day is about the moments between 'action' and 'cut'. All the bullshit i put up with is for those moments. I seriously love acting. It still excites me and gets me out of the bed in the morning thinking i can get better at it. So that is the best. After that, lunch and then taking off the costume when you are done and know you did a good job is a great moment. You sort of hang up the character and walk out of your trailer as yourself...as best you can. LOL I'm not the guy who was in the doorway. I would totally have let those guys into my party. |
| Have you been an anything else we might have seen? | Maybe. |
| Are you Jamie from the Flo insurance commercials? | NO unfortunately. Money wise. |
| Did Simmons even have a line in that commercial? | i think he's one of the voices. |
| Did you invest your money for passive income? | I never got enough at once. it was always just pay the rent. But i have a nice pension with Sag and some retirement savings. i'll be ok. I'll be able to afford a studio in the valley. if i don't get a series...which I'm, STILL trying. |
| What are your favorite kind of m&m's jamie? | Peanut cause it's also food. |
| Have you done anything else? | Yes. I recently hijacked a viral video made by Trailer Trash Tammy and The Mc Rib Lady because I had just watched the Tiger King and wanted to play a part like Joe Exotic. So I invented this version of Rodney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iERniZ9Crlc |
| Would u fuck the green M&M? | Only oral with her. LOL |
| Pancakes or waffles? | Oh man. Really depends on the pancake batter recipe. But you are probably safer going with waffles over pancakes in most cases. I'll take a waffle house waffle over an ihop pancake any day. |
| did you get to meet the green m&m and was she as good looking inperson? | No. Why would she be there?? |
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| Slutty Halloween, Yo. | I'm having a party! Bring them. Free snacks!! |
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