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Question: Okay, so this new credit-card commercial with MacGyver has been
driving me crazy! Richard Dean Anderson looks way too old for this commercial to
be a simple collection of edited clips taken from the original MacGyver show
from back in the '80s and '90s. Plus, I loved that show and do not remember
those scenes at all. Is it possible that the actor, who is supposed to have
retired from acting, actually filmed this commercial more recently? In the ads, he looks more like he did in the early seasons of his show Stargate SG-1. Am I crazy? — Desiree
Matt Roush: I think the commercial is (in a word) priceless. And I'm not sure
why you thought Anderson had retired from acting altogether. He was just
tired of the Stargate series grind, and who can blame him? (He'll be making guest
appearances on both SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis this summer.) This fun stunt
was filmed expressly for this commercial campaign, not cobbled together from old
MacGyver sequences.
Question: Okay, so this new credit-card commercial with MacGyver has been
driving me crazy! Richard Dean Anderson looks way too old for this commercial to
be a simple collection of edited clips taken from the original MacGyver show
from back in the '80s and '90s. Plus, I loved that show and do not remember
those scenes at all. Is it possible that the actor, who is supposed to have
retired from acting, actually filmed this commercial more recently? In the ads, he looks more like he did in the early seasons of his show Stargate SG-1. Am I crazy? — Desiree
Matt Roush: I think the commercial is (in a word) priceless. And I'm not sure
why you thought Anderson had retired from acting altogether. He was just
tired of the Stargate series grind, and who can blame him? (He'll be making guest
appearances on both SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis this summer.) This fun stunt
was filmed expressly for this commercial campaign, not cobbled together from old
MacGyver sequences.