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Joel Edgerton on Directing Harrison Ford in New Glenmorangie Whisky Ad Campaign, Getting Him to Wear a Kilt and Embrace Being an ‘Older Dude’: ‘Let’s Not Try and Hide It’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Joel Edgerton talks about making his advertising directorial debut with Harrison Ford in the new Glenmorangie whiskey ad campaign.
Joel Edgerton has directed two feature films, “The Gift” and “Boy Erased,” but he is now making his advertising directorial debut with Glenmorangie Scotch Whisky’s new ad campaign starring Harrison Ford. “I’d watched a lot of his interviews, and I realized that true or false, there’s a persona of Harrison’s that is quite gruff and, you know, grumpy, but he’s a bit like an avocado,” Edgerton tells me. While he was shaking my hand, he said, “I heard they want me to ride a horse and fly a plane, and I’m not doing any of that.” I felt good because that’s exactly what the first spot was going to be about — him going, “I don’t want to do what they want me to do.” We hit it off and by the end of the meeting, he was like, “I’ll do whatever you want me to do.”
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